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Subject: Reich Quotes - Wed, 13 Mar 1996 21:35:37 -0500
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 21:35:37 -0500
From: orgone@shore.net (true paranoia..reads)
Message-Id: <199603140223.VAA12156@relay1.shore.net>
To: orgonomy@jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU
Subject: Reich Quotes
Sender: owner-orgonomy@jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU
First, it was necessary to differentiate clearly between individual
and social sex-economy. We now know that regulation of sexual energy in the
organism of a single individual depends upon his degree of orgastic potency.
This, however, is in turn determined by the social organization of sexual
life. Originally, individual and social sexual organization did not
conflict; on the contrary, the society of primitive peoples took great care
to assure sexual happiness. Affirmation of sexuality prevailed, and not
merely tolerance. With the invasion of compulsory sex-morality, however,
this affirmation shifted rapidly to sexual negation, and in this way sexual
culture embarked on the path to decay. Restraint of natural sexual pleasure
created all the phenomena currently termed "sexuality"--neurosis,
perversion, enslavement of women and children, and antisocial sexual
attitudes--and these can only be considered worthy of condemnation. The
process of sexual suppression, which was socially, not biologically,
founded, introduced the second social process, which we have already
examined, i.e. the division of a united, homogeneous society into two
classes, the owners of the means of production and the owners of work-power.
This ushered on progressive concentration of social power in the hands of
the few, such as we encounter in the princes of antiquity and the Middle
Ages. Class division maintained and strengthened sexual suppression once
again. With the Christian era, sexual suppression was organized in a special
form.
Wilhelm Reich, People In Trouble, pages 130-1.
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