“In his lectures to young communists in Germany during the rise of Hitler and the Nazis, psychologist Wilhelm Reich theorized that the suppression of sexuality was essential to an authoritarian government. Without the imposition of anti-sexual morality, he believed,
people would be free from shame and would trust their own sense of right and wrong.
They would be unlikely to march to war against their wishes, or to operate death camps. Perhaps if we were raised without shame and guilt about our desires, we might be a freer people in more ways than simply the sexual.”
from Dossie and Janet's book Ethical Sluts
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