Author : Francis King
Publisher : Feral House
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 14,56 MB
Release : 2013-03-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1936239523
Sexuality, Magic & Perversion by Francis King is a controversial, revelatory, highly recommended volume of original research that investigates sexuality in religions and traditions all over the globe, from fertility cults and tantricism to Islamic mysticism and Crowleyan sex magick. A tantalizing study of the mystical aspect of sex, heavily researched.
Author : Francis King
Publisher : Lyle Stuart
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 15,87 MB
Release : 1972-06-01
Category : Magic
ISBN : 9780806502892
Out of print for decades, with copies selling for as much as $300 by antiquarian dealers, Francis King's fascinating Sexuality, Magic and Perversionhas been brought back to the public by Feral House. One of the first modern-day books to explore orgasm as part of a supernatural rite to achieve Divine Union, Mr. King investigates the use of sexuality by Western and Eastern religious and occult traditions, from fertility cults, tantricism, black masses, Islamic mysticism, templarism, forms fo Crowleyan sex magick, and even the work of Wilhelm Reich.
Author : Jon Knowles
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 1034 pages
File Size : 30,87 MB
Release : 2019-03-31
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1622734165
The ghosts that haunt our sexual pleasure were born in the Stone Age. Sex and gender taboos were used by tribes to differentiate themselves from one another. These taboos filtered into the lives of Bronze and Iron Age men and women who lived in city-states and empires. For the early Christians, all sex play was turned into sin, instilled with guilt, and punished severely. With the invention of sin came the construction of women as subordinate beings to men. Despite the birth of romance in the late middle ages, Renaissance churches held inquisitions to seek out and destroy sex sinners, all of whom it saw as heretics. The Age of Reason saw the demise of these inquisitions. But, it was doctors who would take over the roles of priests and ministers as sex became defined by discourses of crime, degeneracy, and sickness. The middle of the 20th century saw these medical and religious teachings challenged for the first time as activists, such as Alfred Kinsey and Margaret Sanger, sought to carve out a place for sexual freedom in society. However, strong opposition to their beliefs and the growing exploitation of sex by the media at the close of the century would ultimately shape 21st century sexual ambivalence. Book Two of this two-part publication traces the history of sex from the Victorian Era to present day. Interspersed with ‘personal hauntings’ from his own life and the lives of friends and relatives, Knowles reveals how historical discourses of sex continue to haunt us today. This book is a page-turner in simple and plain language about ‘how sex got screwed up’ for millennia. For Knowles, if we know the history of sex, we can get over it.
Author : Temple Drake
Publisher : Critical Vision
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 30,56 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781900486354
An indispensable sampling of the vast assortment of publications which exist as an adjunct to the mainstream press, or which promote themes and ideas that may be defined as pop culture, alternative, underground or subversive. Updated and revised from the pages of the critically acclaimed Headpress journal, this is an enlightened and entertaining guide to the counter culture - including everything from cult film, music, comics and cutting-edge fiction, by way of its books and zines, with contact information accompanying each review.
Author : Alison M. Moore
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 21,35 MB
Release : 2015-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 1498530737
The notion of sexual sadism emerged from nineteenth-century alienist attempts to imagine the pleasure of the torturer or mass killer. This was a time in which sexuality was mapped to social progress, so that perversions were always related either to degeneration or decadence. These ideas were internalized in later Freudian views of the drives within the self, and of their repression under the demands of modern European civilization. Sadism was always presented as the barbarous past that lurked within each of us, ready to burst forth into murderous violence, crime, anti-Semitism, and finally genocide. This idea maintained its currency in European thought after the Second World War as Freudian-influenced accounts of the history of philosophy configured the Marquis de Sade as a kind of Kantian “superego” in a framework that viewed the Western Enlightenment as unraveled by its own inner demons. In this way, a straight line was imagined from the late eighteenth century to the Holocaust. These ideas have had an ongoing legacy in debates about sexual perversion, feminism, genocide representation, and historical memory of Nazism. However, recent genocide research has massively debunked assumptions that perpetrators of mass violence are especially sexually motivated in their cruelty. This book considers how the late twentieth-century imagination eroticized Nazism for its own ends, but also how it has been informed by nineteenth-century formulations of the idea of mass violence as a sexual problem.
Author : Donald Tyson
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 28,61 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781567187410
Chances are that you've heard of Tantra and Taoist sexual practices. Now, as a result of studying the inner mysteries of alchemy, Donald Tyson presents a Western system of sacred sexuality in Sexual Alchemy. Here you will learn how to have erotic relationships with loving spirits. That means the methods presented here can function as a Western alternative to Eastern sexual practices. They also can be used by a solitary person and need not depend upon the participation of a partner. The first part of this book presents a history of sex with spirits. It also goes into the secrets of Eastern internal alchemy and how the books of Western alchemy often made secretive references to sexual magick. You will also learn how to create a physical representation of the spirit you are going to use as a partner. The second part of the book includes the practices and techniques which the author found to be effective from other sources or developed himself. This includes techniques of diet, exercise, breathwork, banishings, purifications, and finally, an invocation ritual to summon the spirit who is going to be your lover! Then you will learn the previously hidden secrets of having sex with a spirit lover. You'll learn how to prepare and recognize the signs that this is an actual occurrence and not simply a fantasy. And then, when you have accomplished your ritualized mating, you will learn how to collect and use the resulting, highly charged fluids for magical purposes. Everything we are, everything we have, is a gift from the Divine. Doesn't it make sense that we use all of our abilities to honor the source from which they came? That means we can even make use of our sensual natures to honor the Gods. If you want to follow a system based on western traditions, this book can be your guide.
Author : Francis King
Publisher : Creation Books
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 23,18 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Examines Crowley's philosophy, work & influence
Author : Marla Segol
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 47,15 MB
Release : 2021-06-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0271091053
In this provocative book, Marla Segol explores the development of the kabbalistic cosmology underlying Western sex magic. Drawing extensively on Jewish myth and ritual, Segol tells the powerful story of the relationship between the divine and the human body in late antique Jewish esotericism, in medieval kabbalah, and in New Age ritual practice. Kabbalah and Sex Magic traces the evolution of a Hebrew microcosm that models the powerful interaction of human and divine bodies at the heart of both kabbalah and some forms of Western sex magic. Focusing on Jewish esoteric and medical sources from the fifth to the twelfth century from Byzantium, Persia, Iberia, and southern France, Segol argues that in its fully developed medieval form, kabbalah operated by ritualizing a mythos of divine creation by means of sexual reproduction. She situates in cultural and historical context the emergence of Jewish cosmological models for conceptualizing both human and divine bodies and the interactions between them, arguing that all these sources position the body and its senses as the locus of culture and the means of reproducing it. Segol explores the rituals acting on these models, attending especially to their inherent erotic power, and ties these to contemporary Western sex magic, showing that such rituals have a continuing life. Asking questions about its cosmology, myths, and rituals, Segol poses even larger questions about the history of kabbalah, the changing conceptions of the human relation to the divine, and even the nature of religious innovation itself. This groundbreaking book will appeal to students and scholars of Jewish studies, religion, sexuality, and magic.
Author : Ariane Cruz
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 45,31 MB
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1479827460
Winner of the MLA's 2016 Alan Bray Prize for Best Book in GLBTQ Studies How BDSM can be used as a metaphor for black female sexuality. The Color of Kink explores black women's representations and performances within American pornography and BDSM (bondage and discipline, domination and submission, and sadism and masochism) from the 1930s to the present, revealing the ways in which they illustrate a complex and contradictory negotiation of pain, pleasure, and power for black women. Based on personal interviews conducted with pornography performers, producers, and professional dominatrices, visual and textual analysis, and extensive archival research, Ariane Cruz reveals BDSM and pornography as critical sites from which to rethink the formative links between Black female sexuality and violence. She explores how violence becomes not just a vehicle of pleasure but also a mode of accessing and contesting power. Drawing on feminist and queer theory, critical race theory, and media studies, Cruz argues that BDSM is a productive space from which to consider the complexity and diverseness of black women's sexual practice and the mutability of black female sexuality. Illuminating the cross-pollination of black sexuality and BDSM, The Color of Kink makes a unique contribution to the growing scholarship on racialized sexuality.
Author : Angela Jenette Rosas
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 21,60 MB
Release : 2018-01-09
Category :
ISBN : 9781983612954
Prayers that Break Strongholds in breaking the demonic strongholds of sexual sin, perversion and lust from our lives is vital to the fabric for a continual presence of the Kingdom of God upon its sovereignty. Demonic manifestations from sexual sin, perversion and lust can come about in many forms and for many reasons. When they happen they can be disruptive and harmful. Satan is our enemy. He will use any opening we give him. The purpose of this book is to help you understand if you have a door open through which Satan and his demonic hosts can enter, they can cause problems in your life, your relationship and marriage. These prayers are designed first and foremost to combat the constant attacks of the enemy and its host of demon spirits. But the prayer starts with the Body of Christ, and its Kingdom Citizenship that represents the church, that represents a community, that represents a home or family. With a strong and solid foundation from a small group of 2 to a multitude of thousands, a person or a people praying for to God, the Father, God the Son and God, the Holy Spirit, brings about a type of covering that surpasses conventional thinking or mindset. Praying against an enemy that the word of God says in 1 Peter 5:8 [AMP], Be well balanced (temperate, sober of mind), be vigilant and cautious at all times; for that enemy of yours, the devil, roams around like a lion roaring in fierce hunger, seeking someone to seize upon and devour. Prayer keeps that counterfeit lion, the devil at a distance. The words that are released in prayer against the enemy, becomes a barrage upon the types of garrisons or fortresses its demonic host try to erect to keep Gods people from being free from the clutches of its nature. Prayer, brings about a Kingdom mindset that understands the will, way and purpose of who we are to be formed to the mind, will, way and purpose of God and not ours. This book contains various prayers that we believe can help combat the enemy and stop him at his tracks. The sources of these prayers, is to bring about the power of the strength of God into your life that will let the devil know, NOT HERE, NOT NOW and NOT EVER will the enemy have power of my life and the endeavors that I make within the Kingdom of God. When you pray, pray with a strong authority that will release the words spoken into the atmosphere that would produce the power of God's glory and anointing that brings the effect of change that brings the effect of manifested power of God.
