By Francis King
Sexuality, Magic, and Perversion surveys such outre topics as intercourse magic, left-hand Tantrism, and the initiates of Aleister Crowley’s Order of Oriental Templars. This attention-grabbing and hugely readable booklet additionally discusses the function of magical myth in modern pornography. Appendices conceal obscurities equivalent to Ralph Chubb’s homoerotic mysticism and the ladies bishops of the Mariavite Church in Poland.
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