According to shocking details from a new book entitled “Bernie for Burlington: The Rise of the People’s Politician,” Vermont Senator and Democratic Socialist Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has quite the filthy mind.
Dan Chiasson, author of “Bernie for Burlington: The Rise of the People’s Politician,” wrote that Sanders reportedly built a device that would harness a supposed sexual life force energy and release it in the form of explosive orgasms when he was in college.
According to excerpts from the book that was released last Tuesday, in his early 20s, Sanders became fixated with the work of Dr. Wilhelm Reich, an Austrian psychoanalyst and sexologist, and then built a five-foot-long prayer mat made of spiked copper wires that he would sleep on to channel “orgone,” what Reich theorized was a universal energy heavily rooted in sexuality.
According to The Daily Mail, which published excerpts from the book, Sanders was also influenced by Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx, and Reich during his time at the University of Chicago and would read their works to better understand what he regarded as the disadvantages of living life under capitalism.
Among some of Reich’s most controversial theories surrounding human sexuality was the belief that there was a correlation between sexual repression and fascism. Reich “connected political liberation with the cultivation of cosmos-shattering orgasms,” Chiasson wrote in his book.
During his college years, Sanders wrote an article in the university student newspaper, titled “Sex and the Single Girl – Part Two,” that was allegedly an homage to the feminist book by Helen Gurley Brown, where Sanders argued against the college housing policy which barred women from living off campus and not being allowed to have male visitors in their housing, according to the Daily Mail.
At the time, Sanders labelled the university’s policy as an “oppressive code of morality” that amounted to “forced chastity.”
Sanders’ bizarre sexual musings came under scrutiny during his presidential campaigns due to an article he wrote about gender roles which controversially stated that women have “rape fantasies.”
According to the Daily Caller, the controversial essay contained statements such as “a women enjoys intercourse with her man – as she fantasizes being raped by 3 men simultaneously,” and “do you know why the newspapers with the articles like ‘Girl 12 raped by 14 men’ sell so well? To what in us are they appealing?”
Back in 2015, liberal media outlet Mother Jones did an extensive report on Sanders’ influencer (Reich) stating that the psychoanalyst also created a shed-like device known as an “Orgone Accumulator” which would supposedly accumulate “orgastic” energy circulating in the air which Reich believed could cure various diseases, such as cancer.
However, Reich died in 1957 while serving a two-year prison sentence connecting to his breach of an injunction from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that barred Reich from selling orgone accumulators across the country.