Wilhelm Reich and subject test drive an Orgon Accumulator (Wikipedia photo). Bernie Sanders’ preoccupation with Reich and his close following of Reich’s teachings are reported in a new book, Bernie for Burlington by Dan Chiasson.

By Ted Cohen

A spicy new literary take on Vermont’s famous imported socialist takes a prurient peek behind the curtains into Bernie’s bedroom.

The upcoming book “Bernie for Burlington,” says Bernie Sanders once built himself a device so he could achieve “cosmos-shattering orgasms.”

The racy take on Vermont’s Brooklyn-born senior senator is authored by Dan Chiasson, a poet and journalist who is a regular contributor to The New Yorker and who grew up in Burlington.

Sanders, a follower of the ‘Father of Free Love’ in his youth, was heavily influenced by the controversial sex therapist Wilhelm Reich, according to Chaisson.

Reich believed that liberation could be achieved via enhanced climaxes.

He built a device called an “Orgone Accumulator,” which supposedly collected energy to be later released in the form of explosive orgasms.

Such was Bernie’s devotion to Reich that he even built his own orgone orgasm device, a five-foot-long prayer mat made of copper wire with spikes on it that he slept on to channel the “energy”into his body, Chiasson claims.

Sanders’ brother Larry told Chiasson that Reich was an influence that his brother “wanted to downplay” as his political career progressed.

However, during Sanders’ first run for the presidency in 2015 an article on an alleged Sanders’ “rape fantasy” came to light, throwing his campaign into a virtual talespin.

Chaisson’s controversial book was featured as a headline Sunday on the front page of the Drudge Report. (Drudge is no small potatoes, his site reportedly having received 25 million views in 24 hours as of Sunday.)

The Bernie book is to be released by Penguin Random House – no slouch itself in the publishing world – on Tuesday.

Bernie the youthful “climax king” came to Burlington nearly 60 years ago, eventually becoming mayor of Vermont’s largest city.

Sanders, whose climb up the political ladder has come with a commensurate meteoric rise in his personal wealth, now owns three houses.

After several unsuccessful attempts at statewide office in Vermont, he actually became mayor in a shocking 1981 upset of the entrenched Democrat incumbent, Gordon Paquette.

From the top of Burlington’s political establishment, Bernie got himself elected to the U.S. House, and from there he went to the U.S. Senate.

Though he ran for president a couple of times his political dream never climaxed in that office.

Bernie lost the nomination ten years ago to Hillary Clinton, wife of the nation’s actual climax king, then in 2020 to his self-septuagenarian, elderly anti-climax king Joe Biden.

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