Discussion opener for GRGR(10)

[Henry M]

Oh, yeah. FWIW, forgot to mention that Patti Smith has a song based on
Peter Reich's book; it's recorded on Horses, but I forget the name
(but I do have a great live version on a bootleg).

On  8 Feb 97 at 11:40, I wrote:

> My dictionary gives provides for pornography: porne=a prostitute
> (gr=German!), graphein=to write(gr). So commerce seems to be built
> right into the word. 
> 
> I've always thought of the Beatles' "Come Together" when I read the
> touching "I know there's coming together." All the
> self-gratification talk (I just LOVE euphemism) has always made me
> think of Wilhelm Reich, and more recently of Jocelyn Elders, the
> controversial recent Surgeon General of the USA. Both recommended
> that masturbation be taught, Reich stating that orgasm without
> pelvic thrusting didn't get the orgone flowing right. (I agree with
> this.) Many of Reich's personal journals were burn in the USA (it
> can't happen here) and he was thrown in jail as a quack, where he
> died. (Recommend his son Peter's book, forget the title, but I've
> got it around here somewhere.) Jocelyn Elders was forced to resign.

<Snipping myself, which seems appropriate given the context>

My mother was of the sky... -- JL
My mother is the war...
Keep cool, but care. -- TRP
Moderation in moderation. -- Husky Mariner
Not having that, which having... :-(

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