THE ORGASM REFLEX

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If we succeed in loosening the armoring from head down to the pelvis, then there is the appearance of what Reich called the orgasm reflex.  The orgasm reflex is an involuntary movement of the pelvic musculature, not only involved with sexual activity, but that is also evoked in periods of high emotional excitement.  So it is not a purely a sexual phenomenon.  For example, one of my patients who was an entertainer, a singer, was through to the pelvic segment in her therapy.  She was a singer and she was giving one of the performances of her lifetime on the stage.  She was really good, and the audience was really with her.  She was in a period of very high emotional excitement and she said, "Suddenly my pelvis started to move and I couldn't stop it."  That's the orgasm reflex.

The orgasm reflex can sometimes appear in therapy and it may still take several years before the orgasm reflex becomes incorporated into one's sex life, so it becomes a regular part of the sexual orgasm as well as just a phenomenon.

Reich said that the full orgastic discharge was the natural expression of energetic discharge in the human being.  Energy can be discharged by thought processes and by physical work.  He felt that the major, basic biological discharge mechanism was the discharge in sexual activity.