How the Lack of Sex causes Cancer

The main purpose of this book is to demonstrate convincingly that cancer, as a special form of biopathy, is inseparably connected with the problem of sexuality and with the social structure of our society. Moreover, cancer has remained an unsolved problem up to the present day because neither its sexual nor social causation has been taken into consideration. What does organic pathology have to do with sociology? is a question that we often hear. But what the sexual life of the masses has to do with politics and sociology is no longer wondered about, as it was a few years ago in Europe. On this subject, sex-economy has succeeded in breaking down the wall of traditional thinking.

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Astonishment and incredulity were the reactions I had from many other circles whenever I referred to cancer as a sexual biopathy or a sex-starvation scourge. These reactions were a clear sign that the cardinal point of our work had not been understood, namely, that diseases generated by sexual stasis are severe biopathic diseases of the organism. The cancer biopathy is one of the diseases in which chronic disturbances of human sexual economy are manifested. Cancer is a sexual biopathy (sex-starvation disease). Sexeconomy and cancer research are, therefore, inseparable. Character analysis, vegetotherapy, and orgone therapy may appear to be different methods of treatment, but basically they are one and the same biotherapy at work in a unitary organism. They complement each other and have a common root in the biosystem. Their superficial differentiation corresponds to the artificial differentiation of the total organism into biophysical, characterological, and physiological functions.

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The connection between disturbances in the discharge of sexual energy and cancer has not been carefully examined. However, experienced gynecologists are aware of the existence of such a connection. Respiratory disturbances and muscular spasms are direct consequences of an acquired fear of sexual excitation (orgastic impotence). Poorly charged, spastic organs or organs with insufficient respiration develop a biological weakness that renders them highly vulnerable to cancerproducing stimuli of all kinds. Organs that function in a biologically natural manner resist the same stimuli. This is an obvious and necessary assumption. The clinically established findings of deficient biological charge, muscular spasm, and reduced external and internal respiration give the concept of “cancer disposition” a tangible content. I now want to show how discoveries in sex-economic clinical practice prepare the way to cancer research. The sex-economic examination of character neuroses revealed again and again the crucial role of muscular spasms and their devitalizing effect upon the organism. Muscular spasm and deficiency in orgonotic charge are felt subjectively as “deadness.” Muscular hypertension, resulting from chronic sexual stasis, regularly causes a decrease of organ sensations, to the point where the individual feels dead. This process corresponds to a block of bio-energetic activity in the affected organ. The blocking of biosexual excitation in the genitals, for instance, is accompanied by spasm of the pelvic musculature, as in the uterine spasms of frigid and neurotic women which frequently lead to menstrual disturbances and pain, polypous tumors, and myomata. Spasm in the uterus has no other function than to prevent the biosexual energy from being felt in the vagina. Spasms inhibiting the free flow of plasmatic currents affect particularly the annular musculature, e.g., in the throat, at the entrance and exit of the stomach, in the anus, etc.

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Cancer of the genital organs and cancer of the breast are far more common than cancer of any other organ. The sex-biopathic nature of cancer emerges unmistakably from this fact. If considered in conjunction with the prevalence of sexual frigidity in women, this finding is merely an expression in cancer statistics of the disturbances of the sexual functions, which were known to us for a long time from our sex-economic clinical practice. It is precisely this relation between sexual pathology and cancer statistics that leads to an important conclusion: The local cancerous process is a manifestation resulting from the damaged sex-economy of the organism. Consequently, the elimination of cancer requires a radical change in the entire sexual hygiene of the population. In the face of this conclusion, the statements of many cancer specialists do not sound very logical.

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Many women suffering from genital tension and vaginal anesthesia complain of feeling that “something is not right down there.” They report having experienced during puberty the familiar signs of biosexual excitation, itching and prickling, and having learned to combat these excitations by holding their breath, with the consequence that they no longer felt anything. Later, they typically relate, they began to feel a sensation of “deadness” or “numbness” in the genitals, which worried them. Since the biological state of the organs is mirrored in organ sensations, we must impute serious significance to such descriptions for the evaluation of somatic processes. The sexual inhibition commonly found in women is responsible for the prevalence of breast and genital cancer. In countless cases, this inhibition may be present for decades before it takes the form of cancer.

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In the practice of orgone therapy, we see not only character-neurotic disturbances but also, quite routinely, schizophrenia, epilepsy, Parkinson-like disease, rheumatic and cancerous manifestations. An organic disease may emerge during treatment or develop later, recalling early evidence that foreshadowed it: for example, the spasms of the pelvic musculature that occur so frequently in women, usually resulting in the development of benign tumors in the genital organs.

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My cancer patients made me acutely aware of what I had been seeing for the past twenty-four years, the devastation of sexual disturbances. There was no getting away from it, no matter how I tried: Cancer is a putrefaction of the tissues, occurring while the body is still alive and caused by pleasure starvation of the organism. It was not simply inadequate research methods or therapeutic errors in biology that had been responsible for the overlooking of this extremely simple fact. I had stumbled upon it only because I had to remain consistent as a sex-economist; I had to follow the consequences of sexual disturbances wherever they led. What is really responsible for this oversight is our whole way of viewing life: our moralism, the sexual crippling of our children and youth, the moralistic prejudices in medicine and education, in short, our fear of life and our blindness to it, attitudes that we have handed down from generation to generation for thousands of years. We have outlawed the most important life function [sex]; we have stamped it sinful, even criminal, and denied it any social protection. In addition to that, we have added an unpardonable deed: we have tolerated and still tolerate the presence of those things that hinder natural love-life—pornography, sexual gossip and defamation, sexual compulsion, and medieval sex laws. Filthy fantasies, whether hypocritically moralistic or openly sadistic and pornographic, still determine how our children are brought up and whom we should embrace. We have lost our trust in the natural laws of life and now we are beginning to notice the consequences.

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The important question that confronts us now is, What happens in the tissues and the blood as a consequence of biopathic shrinking? In other words, in what way does the general shrinking of the autonomic system produce the local growth? I venture to anticipate: The general consequence of biopathic shrinking is putrefaction of the tissues and the blood. The growth of cancer tumors is only one of its symptoms. This finding needs detailed clinical and experimental documentation, which will be provided elsewhere.

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These findings had the greatest significance for the orgone therapy experiment. They showed that symptoms of an advanced cancerous state can exist in the organism without conspicuous local manifestation. This confirmed my earlier view that cancer consists essentially in a general shrinking of the life apparatus; the local tumor is therefore only one of the symptoms of the disease and not the disease itself. These findings also proved that standard medical training does not enable the practicing physician to diagnose cancer prior to the appearance of conspicuous local phenomena.

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In a stunning discovery that overturns decades of textbook teaching, researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have determined that the brain is directly connected to the immune system by vessels previously thought not to exist. That such vessels could have escaped detection when the lymphatic system has been so thoroughly mapped throughout the body is surprising on its own, but the true significance of the discovery lies in the effects it could have on the study and treatment of neurological diseases ranging from autism to Alzheimer’s disease to multiple sclerosis.

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The unexpected presence of the lymphatic vessels raises a tremendous number of questions that now need answers, both about the workings of the brain and the diseases that plague it. For example, take Alzheimer’s disease. “In Alzheimer’s, there are accumulations of big protein chunks in the brain,” Kipnis said. “We think they may be accumulating in the brain because they’re not being efficiently removed by these vessels.” He noted that the vessels look different with age, so the role they play in aging is another avenue to explore. And there’s an enormous array of other neurological diseases, from autism to multiple sclerosis, that must be reconsidered in light of the presence of something science insisted did not exist.

Like I explained above, unreleased sexual energy is causing tension in tissue inside the body which degrades the function of the lymphatic system, which, as a result, is then unable to transfer waste out of the body (in the above example regarding Alzheimer’s, the protein chunks cannot be transferred out of the brain). As mentioned in the above article, we can start to see the vast number of diseases that we’ll be able to eliminate once we manage to eradicate every form of sexual suppression and repression from society so that every individual can have a normal and natural sex-life starting from early childhood. ↩︎