After witnessing a police massacre of workers in Vienna during the July
Revolt of 1927, Reich joined the Communist Party. Having already
attained a degree of renown in intellectual circles, he was a prize. The
party arranged lectures for explaining psychoanalytic principles to
student and worker organizations which met with little success. That
changed dramatically when one day he veered off course and began to
share his account of the concrete sexual conditions of the day. He then
worked with colleagues to establish sex information and hygiene centers
in Vienna. Here are examples of questions Reich was asked:
Do you allow your children to masturbate?
If your sixteen year old daughter brought her boyfriend home so they
could make love, would you allow them to?
My husband does not satisfy me during intercourse because he comes
too quickly. What should we do?
If sexual liberty were enforced, wouldn’t it lead to chaos? I have
the impression that my husband would leave me.
As Reich’s popularity grew, it attracted the attention of the Communist
Party leaders in Moscow who demanded that his publications be revised to
meet the more conservative, prudish ideas of the party. Party
functionaries came to frustrate his projects. Reich became increasingly
disenchanted and left the party in 1933.
https://brooklynrail.org/2020/12/books/Wilhelm-Reichs-The-Mass-Psychology-of-Fascism
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