Good Luck to You, Leo Grande

Good Luck to You, Leo Grande

Good luck to you, Leo Grande might easily be subtitled, “A Card-carrying Feminist’s Tribute to Wilhelm Reich.” As readers of Culture Wars will know only too well, Reich believed that patriarchal religion caused mankind’s hitherto healthy attitude to sex to degenerate into that combination of fear and frustration by which it is caricatured to this very day. All that sublimated sexual energy got transformed, by a kind of reverse alchemy, into the great evils of Christian culture – respect for parental authority, chastity, marriage, love of family, love of country – more commonly known as fascism.

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