''The Invasion of Compulsory Sex Morality'' (original German title ''Der Einbruch der Sexualmoral'') is a book written by
Austria
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psychoanalyst
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Wilhelm Reich
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and published in 1931. The book details Reich's theories of the causes of sexual neuroses,
and attempts to explain them in historical, as opposed to
Marxist
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or
Freudian
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terms.
The first two editions (1931 & 1934) were in
German
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- the third edition (1951) was the first to be translated into and published in English, and had a different foreword.
In the prefaces to the three editions, Reich discusses not only the book itself, but also events (such as the rise of
Nazism
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) current at the time of publication.
Reich drew heavily on the work of
Malinowski
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, especially his ''
The Sexual Life of Savages in North-Western Melanesia
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'' (1929).
In 2015 the book remains in print and is in the collections of hundreds of libraries around the world.
"The invasion of compulsory sex-morality."
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References
External links
Book excerpt
Non-fiction books about sexuality
Works by Wilhelm Reich
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