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From a psychological point of view, perhaps Reich’s book, The Bioelectrical Investigation of Sexuality Anxiety, would be his most important work. Reich was one of the first modern physicians to study sexuality. He considered the basic function of all living matter to be tension and relaxation, charge and discharge. Orgasmic discharge produces a feeling of pleasure and fusion, while blocking this, on the other hand, produces a feeling of anxiety and separation from the object. The function of orgasm then is one of the most important points of the body-soul problem—that is the conflict between the body, mind, and soul.

Interestingly, Reich even took this to the other considerable extreme from the theoretical point of view. He felt that “people who are able to experience frictionally induced orgasms from manual or genital stimulation are much more capable of maintaining monogamous relationships than people who experience only the sensation stemming from mechanical release.” Moreover, he said, “The monogamous behavior is based neither on the inhibition of polygamous impulses nor on moral considerations, but on the sex-economic principle of genuine pleasure which is repeatedly experienced. The basis for such pleasure is full sexual harmony with a partner.”

Sexuality, in its normal expression, and anxiety are opposites. He was the first to measure physiological aspects of kissing and the electrical aspects of orgasm. In addition to the controversy surrounding his work with orgone accumulators, Reich proposed an energy the opposite of orgone, DORR or “deadly orgone.” He felt that accumulation of DORR played a role in desertification. In other words DORR kills all plants—as well as humans. It is especially produced by nuclear explosions.

He also designed a cloud buster to manipulate streams of orgone for orgone energy to induce rain and conducted dozens of other experiments. In July 1953 in the midst of a severe drought threatening Maine’s blueberry crop at a time when the weather bureau had reportedly forecast no rain for several days, Reich’s cloud buster was reported to have induced a 0.24 inches of rain, at least temporarily ending the drought.