Unfortunately, Cole doesn’t understand masturbation either. Before she wrote her book on sex and the internet, she should have consulted Philip Roth’s novel Portnoy’s Complaint or better still, the locus classicus of masturbation theory, The Mass Psychology of Fascism, by Wilhelm Reich. Like Philip Roth, Reich was a Jew who wanted to weaponize masturbation into a form of control. The Mass Psychology of Fascism appeared in print in 1933, the same year in which Philip Roth was born. At that time, Reich was a Freudian and a Communist living in Vienna and at war with the Catholic population of Austria, the truncated rump of the once powerful Austro-Hungarian Empire. Reich noticed that the same crowd whose eyes glazed over when he began lecturing about the fourth thesis of the Third International perked up whenever he talked about sex