Translation of Der Enbruch der Sexualmoral, first published in 1931. I am still trying to figure out if Herr Doctor is a bright quack selling the snake-oil of sex, or if he was a scientist addressing many of the major puzzles of his age, including How the most educated nation on the planet could get repeatedly hoodwinked by Prussian nationalists. His description of "mass psychosis" explains a lot. His distinction between biological and cultural regulations of morals, the orgonomics, is based on science. The suppression of sex desires and the fecundity of guilt at the origin of so many "emotional plagues" seems obvious and continues to find vindication in clinical studies. His expressed commitment to "mental hygiene". All these weigh on the side of a good faith consideration. And from my earliest days, I have always enjoyed the manifest courage of his bold thinking. Still, is he kidding? Us and himself?