 As an adult Reich wrote extensively , in his diary , about his sexual precocity . He maintained that his first sexual experience was at the age of four when he tried to have sex with the family maid ( with whom he shared a bed ) , that he would regularly watch the farm animals have sex , that he used a whip handle sexually on the horses while masturbating , and that he had almost daily sexual intercourse from the age of 11 with another of the servants . He wrote of regular visits to brothels , the first when he was 15 , and said he was visiting them daily from the age of around 17 . He also developed sexual fantasies about his mother , writing when he was 22 that he masturbated while thinking about her . 
