This book deals with the nature and function of orgasm. Sexual behavior cannot be separated from the personality of the individual, therefore it cannot be modified without corresponding changes in her personality. Complete sexual satisfaction is not achieved, according to Lowen, through the use of certain sexual techniques, so fashionable today, but is the result of a way of life: the experience of a mature personality. The sexually mature person lives and respects her body and her feelings. This self-acceptance will enable her to love and respect her partner and all living things. It is what the author calls "an open heart." The person who has a "closed heart" is afraid to love. It may be the case of a sexually sophisticated individual who seems to have freed himself from all sexual taboos, and who, however, his principles do not guarantee the achievement of a full sexual life.

The material presented in Love and Orgasm incorporates the knowledge acquired during fifteen years of active psychiatric work and twenty years of study of the subject: the emotional problems and the sexual problems of a person reflect the same disturbance in the personality.

Heterosexual relationships, homosexual relationships, masturbation, impotence, sensuality, male and female sexual roles, are aspects analyzed in detail by the author through real examples of his consultation.

Each individual constitutes a psychosomatic unit. Movement, structure, and breathing are body patterns in which our childhood traumas are fixed, affecting our expressiveness and creativity, and therefore, our sexual behavior. Behind every posture, tone of voice, stiffness or muscle laxity, there is a repressed emotion that must be revealed in order to gain our freedom and be able to fully enjoy life.