BBC - Ronald Reagan's bizarre sex hangups

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When I think of Ronald Reagan, I think of two things - the glee he had in trying to break the migrant farmworkers union for the wealthy orchard owners as governor of California, and also the villagers massacred in El Mozote.

Apparently this type of personality has some strange sexual hang-ups as well. Maybe Wilhelm Reich was right.

Also note that the thing that set him back to "normality" in this somewhat was strange racist beliefs.

From the BBC (a little old, but I just learned of it) -

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3128464.stm

Reagan had 'evil sex' angst

A letter written by Ronald Reagan reveals that the former US president had guilty feelings about sex, even within marriage.

His misgivings, which he said he later laid to rest, are contained in letter to a friend written in 1951, before his second marriage.

It came to light with 1,000 others setting out Mr Reagan's personal views on a range of subjects including free speech and the Cold War.

Mr Reagan was offering consolation to an old friend whose husband had died.

"Even in marriage I had a little guilty feeling about sex, as if the whole thing was tinged with evil," he told the friend.

But Mr Reagan said a "fine old gentleman" had pointed him in the right direction by citing the behaviour of primitive Polynesians.

"These peoples, who are truly children of nature and thus of God, accept physical desire as a natural, normal appetite," he said.