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♌ J June 1941 Dear Mr. Goldinger You have asked me to write down my position in the matter of my having a child with Use Ollendorff without being married. This letter should not only give you the information concerning our private contract but is also intended as a declaration of principle in the event that some person or organization should start a campaign against my scientific and medical activity. It is quite possible that sooner or later a bishop or a psychiatrist or a politician will "find out about me." In such a case I would ask you to use this letter in public, be it before a jury, in a newspaper, or anywhere else. Having gone through such accidents several times, I know very well what arguments will be used against me. One will claim that: I am destroying the marriage institution, family, and morality I am committing the crime of adultery I seduce the youth to immoral habits and actions I was a communist One will urge that I be deported, jailed, hanged, or lynched. One will claim that I am in subversive activity, that I wish to destroy the government, that my bions, the orgone, the cancer experiments are bunk, that I am seducing my students, that I have practiced without a license, that I had left my family, etc., etc. Therefore, this letter will be frank. I want a child but I do not wish to have it with a marriage license. That is not against the law, as you told me. You and others will ask why I do not comply with the social rules. I do comply with every social rule which is in accordance with human nature, decency, with work, love, and science. J do not comply with rules which are superimposed upon the people by neurotics. For instance, I don't go to church. I do not enjoy empty social gatherings. I do not believe in life insurance or in heaping up money in the bank. These are appreciated social rules. I do not marry because of two reasons: 1. I saw so much misery, psychic suppression, lies, and cheating in marriage during twenty-two years of medical practice that I got to