Adventures in the Orgasmatron (86 page)

82.
Ibid.

83.
Baker, “My Eleven Years with Reich” (part 17),
Journal of Orgonomy
18, no. 2 (1984): 169.

Thirteen

1.
Norman Mailer,
Advertisements for Myself
(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1992), 328–29.

2.
Norman Mailer to Kenneth Tynan, 1972, Tynan Archive, British Library, London.

3.
Mailer,
Advertisements for Myself
, 347.

4.
Ibid., 347.

5.
Norman Mailer, author interview, June 2007.

6.
Dan Wakefield,
New York in the Fifties
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin/Seymour Lawrence, 1992), 241.

7.
Ibid., 221.

8.
Roger Kimball,
The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America
(San Francisco: Encounter, 2000), 155.

9.
Hilary Mills,
Mailer: A Biography
(New York: McGraw-Hill, 1984), 190.

10.
O. Spurgeon English, “Some Recollections of a Psychoanalysis with Wilhelm Reich: September 1929–April 1932,”
Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis
5, no. 2 (1977): 252.

11.
Jerome Greenfield,
Wilhelm Reich vs. the U.S.A
. (New York: Norton, 1974), 274.

12.
Malcolm Muggeridge,
Tread Softly for You Tread on My Jokes
(London: Collins, 1966), 46.

13.
Ted Morgan,
Reds: McCarthyism in Twentieth-Century America
(New York: Random House, 2003), 561.

14.
“Morals: Second Sexual Revolution,”
Time
, January 24, 1964.

15.
Elsworth Baker, “Orgonomy: The Years after Reich,”
Journal of Orgonomy
20, no. 1 (1986): 17.

16.
Orson Bean, author interview, December 2005.

17.
Elsworth F. Baker and Charles Konia,
Man in the Trap
(Princeton, N.J.: American College of Orgonomy, 2000), xvi.

18.
Jefferson Poland and Sam Sloan,
Sex Marchers
(Los Angeles: Elysium, 1968). By 1976, Poland was offering child care for those attending the league’s Saturday night orgies. “This project,” it was claimed in a newsletter, “is intended as a small step towards helping children be free.” When I tried to track Poland down for an interview I discovered that he’d served five years in jail in the 1980s for sexually abusing one of the children in his charge. He’d tried to castrate himself in prison and on his release was prescribed regular injections of female hormones to depress his libido. See
www.meganslaw.ca.gov
and Nikki Craft, “Jefferson Clitlick Freedom Poland: Convicted Naturist Pedophile” (
www.nostatusquo.com/ACLU/NudistHallofShame/Clitlick.html
).

19.
Baker and Konia,
Man in the Trap
, xvii.

20.
Ibid., 14–16.

21.
Paul Goodman,
Nature Heals: The Psychological Essays of Paul Goodman
(New York: Free Life Editions, 1977), 85.

22.
Ibid., xxiii.

23.
Frederick S. Perls,
Gestalt Therapy Verbatim
(Lafayette, Calif.: Real People, 1969), 214.

24.
Frederick S. Perls,
In and Out the Garbage Pail
(New York: Bantam Books, 1969), 145.

25.
Martin Shepard,
Fritz
(New York: Saturday Review Press, 1975), 159.

26.
Jack Gaines,
Fritz Perls: Here and Now
(New York: Celestial Arts, 1979), 216–17.

27.
Perls,
In and Out the Garbage Pail
, 99.

28.
Petruska Clarkson and Jennifer Mackewn,
Fritz Perls
(London: Sage, 1993), 135.

29.
Perls,
In and Out the Garbage Pail
, 35.

30.
Shepard,
Fritz
, 3.

31.
Dan Greenburg, “My First Orgy,” in
The Twentieth Anniversary Playboy Reader
, ed. Hugh M. Hefner (Chicago: Playboy, 1974), 610.

32.
Gaines,
Fritz Perls
, 148.

33.
Martin Shepard,
Fritz: An Intimate Portrait of Fritz Perls and Gestalt Therapy
(New York: Saturday Review Press, 1975), xv.

34.
Leo E. Litwak, “A Trip to Esalen Institute—Joy Is the Prize,”
The New York Times Magazine
, December 31, 1967.

35.
Ibid., 161.

36.
Perls,
In and Out the Garbage Pail
, 102.

37.
Gaines,
Fritz Perls
, 337.

38.
Shepard,
Fritz
, 192.

39.
Sam Keen and John Raser, “A Conversation with Herbert Marcuse: Revolutionary Eroticism, the Tactics of Terror, the Young, Psychotherapy, the Environment, Technology, Reich,”
Psychology Today
, February 1971.

40.
Herbert Marcuse and Douglas Kellner,
Towards a Critical Theory of Society
(New York: Routledge, 2001), 98.

41.
Herbert Marcuse,
One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
(London: Routledge, 2002), 76.

42.
David Allyn,
Make Love, Not War: The Sexual Revolution, an Unfettered History
(New York: Routledge, 2001), 196–97.

43.
Vance Packard,
The Hidden Persuaders
(New York: David McKay, 1957), 31.

44.
Ibid., 7.

45.
Ibid., 266.

46.
Ibid., 31.

47.
Betty Friedan would criticize Dichter for stereotyping women in “The Sexual Sell,” a chapter of
The Feminine Mystique
(New York: Norton, 1963).

48.
Daniel Horowitz, “The Birth of a Salesman: Ernest Dichter and the Objects of Desire,” unpublished paper, Hagley Library and Archive, Wilmington, Delaware, 37 (
www.hagley.org/library/collections/historicalref/articles/HOROWITZ_DICHTER.pdf
). See also Daniel Horowitz, “The Émigré as Celebrant of American Consumer Culture: George Katona and Ernest Dichter,” in
Getting and Spending: European and American Consumer Societies in the Twentieth Century
, ed. Susan Strasser, Charles McGovern, and Matthias Judt (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), 149–66.

49.
Packard,
The Hidden Persuaders
, 5

50.
Ernest Dichter,
The Strategy of Desire
(New York: Doubleday, 1960), 258.

51.
Horowitz, “Birth of a Salesman,” 28.

52.
Rubin took a “smorgasbord course in New Consciousness” and had Reichian therapy, which he said broke down his inhibitions, but he described its philosophy as “disturbingly conservative.” See Jerry Rubin,
Growing Up at Thirty-seven
(New York: M. Evans, 1976), 20, 50.

53.
Aldous Huxley,
Brave New World
(New York: Harper and Bros., 1946).

54.
Foucault questions the naïve optimism of what he calls Reich’s “repressive hypothesis.” See Michel Foucault,
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
(New York: Vintage, 1980), 11.

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