Popularized by Woody Allen’s 1973 science fiction comedy film Sleeper, which depicted a device of this name; the fictional device was probably inspired by the orgone accumulator, an apparatus invented by psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich..
Origin
1970s; earliest use found in ‘Woody Allen’ (b. 1935), comedian, actor, and film director (real name Allen Konigsberg). From orgasm + -a-, connecting vowel + -tron, humorously after betatron, bevatron, etc.