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I honestly think that in the modern world there's a reactionary element here that Reich is missing. He is trying to say right-wingers have an inherent sexual dysfunction, but I think he's got that backwards.
Pornography is arguably the ultimate product of Modernity. In the Medieval Church, fornication was a way bigger sexual sin problem than masturbation, precisely because in the Middle Ages pornography as we know it did not exist. It was the advent of the Modern world, first with the printing press, then with audio-visual technology, that gave rise to the existence of pornography as we know it.
Therefore, I think it's actually pornography that leads to reactionary politics, and this is a function not of sexual dysfunction but a desire for freedom. The average person today has been exposed to pornography their entire life. Zoomers and Millennials grew up with porn. As we can see, they are also starting to react very heavily against it. Witness the weird prudism of Zoomers, their worry about being "groomed," how odd they find age-gap relationships between consenting adults. It's all downstream of an existence saturated in pornography.
I believe an entirely natural and healthy reaction to being saturated in something so unhealthy is to want to destroy it. To kill it. And I think this is what drives the right-wing fascination in a lot of Zoomers and Millennials. They want to break the power of the Modern world and return to a political and social status quo that did not surround them with pornography, even if that status quo ended long before they or even their parents were even born. This fuels their fascination with things like monarchism, fascism, aristocracy, Orthodoxy and Traditionalist Catholicism, primitive expression of violence. Reich's misjudged it all. It's not unhealthy at all to turn to reactionary politics as a response to pornography, it's actually probably a rather natural response.
Or so it seems to me.