 Partly in response to the shooting he had witnessed in Vienna , Reich , then 30 , opened six free sex @-@ counselling clinics in the city in 1927 for working @-@ class patients . Each clinic was overseen by a physician , with three obstetricians and a lawyer on call , and offered what Reich called Sex @-@ Pol counselling . Sex @-@ Pol stood for the German Society of Proletarian Sexual Politics . Reich offered a mixture of " psychoanalytic counseling , Marxist advice and contraceptives , " Danto writes , and argued for a sexual permissiveness , including for young people and the unmarried , that unsettled other psychoanalysts and the political left . The clinics were immediately overcrowded by people seeking help . 
