The “metal-lined cabinet” Stephen Moss sat in (Into the orgasmatron!, G2, 17 November) has nothing in common with the orgasmatron, which was powered by electricity. To work, the orgone accumulator ...

The cure for all society’s problems is for people to have frequent orgasms. At least that was the claim of Austrian psychoanalyst, Wilhelm Reich, in 1940 when he created a sex box dubbed the ‘Orgone’.

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JD Salinger, Saul Bellow and Norman Mailer were all devotees of the orgone energy accumulator, nicknamed by Woody Allen the 'Orgasmatron'. Its inventor, Wilhelm Reich, claimed that better orgasms ...

This week in the magazine, Ariel Levy writes about Wilhelm Reich, the creator of the orgone box, and some of the sexual revolutions that preceded him. Here Blake Eskin talks with Levy about Reich's ...

Slice them where you will, any collection of psychoanalysts is as mad as a parliament. Novelty beards, whirling eyes, twitches, deranged clothing, tics, jitters and habits you wouldn't want to go into ...

James Bond tried one. So, too, did writers Jack (On The Road) Kerouac and J.D. (Catcher In The Rye) Salinger. The artist who created Shrek swore by his, and spent half an hour inside it at least once ...