Discussion opener for GRGR(10)

[hankhank at ccwf.cc.utexas.edu]

On Sat, 8 Feb 1997, Henry M wrote:
> 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.) 

"WR - Mysteries of the Organism" (1971), Dusan Makavejev's so Reichian 
sexual-political manifesto -- worth checking out, if there's somebody 
among pynchon-l members who hasn't seen it as yet. I first saw it at 
a film club spring party in 1980: at that age (to reopen the sleeping
thread about turners-on) it managed to make my prostate boil merrily.

Heikki