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Subject: Reich Quotes - Tue, 12 Mar 1996 04:03:58 -0500
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 04:03:58 -0500
From: orgone@shore.net (true paranoia..reads)
Message-Id: <199603120847.DAA02607@relay1.shore.net>
To: orgonomy@jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU
Subject: Reich Quotes
Sender: owner-orgonomy@jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU
"In this description, an extremely important but unobserved fact was
revealed. It can be considered the basic model for the refutation of the
absolute "teleological" thinking in the field of biology. The urinary
bladder does not contract "in order to fulfill the function of micturition"
by virtue of divine will or supernatural biological powers. It contracts on
response to a simple causal principle which is anything but divine. It
contracts because its mechanical filling induces a contraction. This
principle can be applied to any other function at will. One does not engage
in sexual intercourse "in order to produce children," but because a
congestion of fluid bioelectrically charges the genital organs and urges
toward discharge. This, in turn, is accompanied by the discharge of sexual
substances. Thus, sexuality is not in the service of procreation; rather
procreation is an incidental result of the tension-charge process in the
genitals. This may be depressing to champions of eugenic moral philosophy,
but it is nonetheless true."
Wilhelm Reich, The Function of the Orgasm, page 282.
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- dave huisken
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