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Sexual revolution made the world worse


It happened the opposite from Milena's words: free sex/love didn't bring peace, it didn't banish criminals. In capitalist America in particular after JFK assasination in 1963 - it plunged into drug and crime spree, downward spiral of violence at worst during hippie, free love- drug era. In communist Yugoslavia, after Tito's death, country plunged into political corruption, people were just becoming more intolerant, rude and angry, using sexual expressions to ashame others, plethora of curse words related to sex and genitalia. With the fall of communism, mafia made way along with supposed democracy and "freedom", now with high rates of alcoholism related violence and suicide.

The only part of the world that sexual freedom works fine is Scandinavia but they never had need for sexual revolution anyways.

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The film isn't really any blanket celebration of 'free love' or whatever, it's really far more complex than that, and I think the fact that it was given an award named after Bunuel is quite appropriate. Although (as Raymond Durgnat says) Reich is celebrated for his spirit rather than the absolute correctness of his ideas, which took in thinkers like Herbert Marcuse and the Situationists, the ideas and the effects of their practice are studied at more of a remove. Look to Foucault's The History of Sexuality for thought that is more clearly opposed to Reich's. In any case, Reich never claimed that a total lack of sexual repression would lead to a lack of violence/aggression, as he was a revolutionary, and the film clearly describes him solving problems in his own life with a .45.

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