Wilhelm Reich was a psychiatrist of sorts who taught for a short while in New York’s The New School (a university; the John Dewey of our current education system was one of its creators). From my reading so far, he appears to be a progressive who was in-line with at least some of our society’s current thought process. Even though this is a fringe view, Wikipedia states that his views of sex literally permeated everything (one of his influences was Sigmund Freud):

He argued that humankind had previously split its knowledge of orgone [a supposed primordial version of Freud's libido] in  two: "ether" for its mechanistic, physical aspects, and God for the  spiritual, the subjective.  He wrote that, "God-Father is the basic cosmic energy from which all  being stems, and which streams through (the) body as through anything  else in existence."

It is funny that I just finished a book about Isaac Newton. He had conducted an experiment to disprove the existance of ether, which is supposed to cause the effects of gravity by exerting external force on an object. That experiment involved a simple clock pendulum. Newton was brilliant.

I came across this quote of Philip Rieff today in a discussion about Wilhelm Reich:

Set into the context of Reich's attach on the family as  the nucleus of all authoritative institutions, his repeated calls for a  do-it-yourself adolescent sex education acquires political significance.  Sex education becomes the main weapon in an ideological war against the  family; its aim was to divest the parents of their moral authority.

I used to say quite often that there is more to life than sex. Some days I feel like I have been drawn into the “sex is everything” craze with some of the books that I read and in how I track society. It is annoying. On Sunday night I visited a church where the pastor preached against gossip as strongly as against lust. That was quite refreshing.

All the same, our society does have a strong focus on sex. Please be aware that, as the quote above explains, the modern sexual exploration and explanations are purposefully designed to break the family.