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orgastic potency

orgastic potency noun: the ability to experience full orgasmic gratification while engaging in the sexual act, a condition only possible for people without neuroses.

Noun

orgastic potency (uncountable)

  1. The ability to experience full orgasmic gratification while engaging in the sexual act, a condition only possible for people without neuroses.
    • Orgastic potency is the capacity to surrender to the flow of biological energy, free of any inhibitions; the capacity to discharge completely and the dammed-up sexual excitation through involuntary, pleasurable convulsions of the body.1927, Wilhelm Reich, translated by Theodore P. Wolfe, The Function of the Orgasm, New York: Meridian, published 1970, page 79
    • Establishment of orgastic potency brings about very definite changes in the individual — changes which are not properly recognized or understood by most psychiatrists even today. The recognition of orgastic potency was crucial.1967, Elsworth F. Baker, Man in the Trap, →ISBN, page xxiii

Origin of orgastic potency

Calque of German orgastische Potenz, coined by Austrian physician Wilhelm Reich.

Questions about orgastic potency

What does orgastic potency mean?
Orgastic potency means the ability to experience full orgasmic gratification while engaging in the sexual act, a condition only possible for people without neuroses.
What part of speech is orgastic potency?
Orgastic potency is a noun.

Words near orgastic potency in the dictionary

  1. orgasming
  2. orgasmless
  3. orgasmlike
  4. orgasms
  5. orgastic
  6. orgastic potency
  7. orgastically
  8. orge
  9. orgeat
  10. orgeats
  11. orged

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