num_pages: 544
description: 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.      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 €œorgastic 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.      In Turner€™s vi
language: English
title: Adventures in the Orgasmatron: How the Sexual Revolution Came to America
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux