Christopher Turner is a British writer.

Christopher Turner is a British writer. Turner is the author of Adventures in the Orgasmatron: Wilhelm Reich and the Invention of Sex (2011), which was long-listed for the Orwell Prize.

In Adventures in the Orgasmatron, Christopher Turner tells the revolution’s story-an illuminating, thrilling, often bizarre story of sex and scienc One of The Economist’s 2011 Books of the Year A Boston Globe Best Nonfiction Book of 2011. Well before the 1960s, a sexual revolution was under way in America, led by expatriated European thinkers who saw a vast country ripe for liberation. In Adventures in the Orgasmatron, Christopher Turner tells the revolution’s story-an illuminating, thrilling, often bizarre story of sex and science, ecstasy and repression.

In Adventures in the Orgasmatron, Christopher Turner tells the revolution's story-an illuminating, thrilling, often bizarre story of sex and science, ecstasy and repression. Central to the narrative is the orgone box-a tall, slender construction of wood, metal, and steel wool

In Adventures in the Orgasmatron, Christopher Turner tells the revolution's story-an illuminating, thrilling, often bizarre story of sex and science, ecstasy and repression. Central to the narrative is the orgone box-a tall, slender construction of wood, metal, and steel wool. A person who sat in the box, it was thought, could elevate his or her "orgastic potential. The box was the invention of Wilhelm Reich, an outrider psychoanalyst who faced a federal ban on the orgone box, an FBI investigation, a fraught encounter with Einstein, and bouts of paranoia.

As Christopher Turner notices in his very amusing and intelligent book, Adventures in the Orgasmatron, George Orwell, not usually associated with promiscuity of any kind, included central elements of the Reichian theory and program almost uncritically in the pages of 1984. The terrifying inquisitor O’Brien tells the cowering Winston Smith: The sex instinct will be eradicated.

The following excerpts are reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC: Excerpts from Beyond Psychology by Wilhelm Reich.

Christopher Turner’s smart, thorough, wholly engaging book takes the reader on a tragicomic adventure of the history of an idea that became an object: Wilhelm Reich’s orgone box. What began in Vienna with Sigmund. Siri Hustvedt, author of The Summer Without Men. Turner has created a masterful synthesis of social history, psychosexual theory, obsession, and farce.

In Adventures in the Orgasmatron, Christopher Turner tells the revolution's storyan illuminating, thrilling, often bizarre story of sex and science, ecstasy and repression. ISBN13: 9780374100940.

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The untold story of Wilhelm Reich and the dawn of the sexual revolution. An illuminating, startling, at times bizarre story of sex and science, ecstasy and repression.