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On Bodies, Freedom and Change, with Olivia Laing

The Shakespeare and Company Interview

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How Did You Come Up With the Idea of the Orgasm?

Ricke was at the source of a lot of the ideas that gave rise to liberation movements we saw over the twentieth century. He coined the term sexual revolution, and had a very forward thinking e view onon gender and sexuality as well. His belief that the orgasm was very important in terms of his understanding of how the body carried drama. The idea that a woman can be destroyed, completely and utterly destroyed as a person, as a body, because of her sexuality underpins everything that he thinks and does.

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