Love and Orgasm: A Revolutionary Guide

by Alexander Lowen

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 002077320X
• ISBN13: 9780020773207
• Release Date: January 1975
• Publisher: Collier Books
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.2" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

No separation between love and sex

This book is wonderful and eye opening. His views on performance versus feeling and being are right on point.I intend to buy this book for my friends.

Worthy of being reissued

I have just been re-reading Lowen's book Pleasure and am struck by the compassion and insight he provides to the basic problem of being human. I read Love and Orgasm years ago and find the distinction between intimacy and the sexual performance still relevant to our increasing narcissistic society. Although Lowen's approach to homosexuality may be politically incorrect, it is still suggestive of the ways both men and women reinterpret their bodies in search of the nurturing intimacy that many children never experience from a primary caregiver. I find it amazing that Lowen as a thinker and writer of the late sixties and early seventies, deeply committed to the human potential movement, still resonates in contemporary culture. A reissue of this book will find a ready audience.

The All-Time Best Book on Sex

Why this book is not better known is beyond me. Lowen wrote it decades ago, and it still is far ahead of anything else written to this point on the subject.His views of homosexuality may clash with today's world, but the essence of the book is full of humanity and deep insight into the nature of love. I can't say enough about this book. It is a gem of pure beauty.