THE FUNCTION OF THE ORGASM

     The following facts were confirmed again and again in my private practice as well as at the psychoanalytic clinic and the psychiatric -neurological hospital:
     The severity of any kind of psychic disturbance is in direct relation to the severity of the disturbance of genitality.
     The prognosis depends directly on the possibility of establishing the capacity for full genital satisfaction.
     Among the hundreds of patients I observed and treated within a few years, there was not one woman who did not suffer from a complete absence of vaginal orgasm. Among the men, roughly 60 to 70 per cent showed gross genital disturbances, either in the form of erective impotence or premature ejaculation. This inability to obtain genital gratification -- which should be the most natural thing in the world -- thus proved a symptom which was never absent in female patients, and rarely absent among the males.

--- THE FUNCTION OF THE ORGASM, by Dr. Wilhelm Reich, Bantam Books Edition (Toronto, New York, London), Published May, 1967, p. 55.