{"product_id":"9781429967488","title":"Adventures in the Orgasmatron: How the Sexual Revolution Came to America","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eThe Economist\u003c\/i\u003e's 2011 Books of the Year \u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e Best Nonfiction Book of 2011\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e     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 \u003ci\u003eAdventures in the Orgasmatron\u003c\/i\u003e, Christopher Turner tells the revolution's story—an illuminating, thrilling, often bizarre story of sex and science, ecstasy and repression. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e     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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e     In Turner's vivid account, Reich's efforts anticipated those of Alfred Kinsey, Herbert Marcuse, and other prominent thinkers—efforts that brought about a transformation of Western views of sexuality in ways even the thinkers themselves could not have imagined.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47166174757104,"sku":"9781429967488","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781429967488_p0.jpg?v=1769902394","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781429967488","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}