Reich on seducing children
Wilhelm Reich published The Sexual Revolution in 1936.
He argued in the book:
“The healthy individual has no compulsive morality because he has no impulses which call for moral inhibition…
Intercourse with a prostitute becomes impossible. Sadistic phantasies disappear. To expect love as a right or even to rape the sexual partner becomes inconceivable, as do ideas of seducing children. Anal, exhibitionistic or other perversions disappear, and with these the social anxiety and guilt feelings. The incestuous fixation to parents and siblings loses its interest; this liberates the energy which was bound up in such fixations. In brief, all these phenomena point to the fact that the organism is capable of self-regulation.”
