It has been pointed out again and again in the revolutionary youth organizations that the "sex question" disturbs and impedes the struggle for revolution. And the conclusion has been drawn, again and again, that we must leave the "sex question" aside, because we have no time to deal with it, and because we have more important things to do. But if the issue has come up again and again, more and more urgently, more and more pressingly, if, as a matter of fact, many youth organization have collapsed, OWING TO THE SEXUAL DIFFICULTIES OF THEIR MEMBERS(a fact we must openly admit), then we must ask ourselves why the question is so disturbing, and we must not, just because it is disturbing, declare we have no time for it and have more and urgent things to do, that sex life is a private affair, etc.
Sex life is not a private affair if it preoccupies you, and in the form in which it has existed hitherto, it interferes with the political struggle.
In capitalist society there can be no sexual liberation of youth, no healthy, satisfying sex life; If you want to get rid of your sexual troubles fight for anarchy. Only through anarchy can you achieve sexual "joie de vivre". Pay no attention to the opinions of people who don't know anything about sex.
-manipulated notes- Sex-Pol Essays, 1929-1934, Wilhelm Reich
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