Author: Sophie Saint Thomas
Publisher: Weiser Books
ISBN: 163341194X
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
“A shameless celebration of sexual freedom, Sex Witch encourages us to cultivate the potent, political powers we all possess within our hearts and minds and between our thighs.” -- Kristen J. Sollée, author of Witch Hunt, Cat Call, and Witches, Sluts, Feminists Sex Witch combines occult knowledge with tried-and-true relationship advice to provide spells for each stage of a relationship. Self-love, seduction, sex, love, protection, revenge, and healing are all covered. The spells, such as “A Tarot Spread to Find Which Relationship Format Is Right for You,” “No TERFS Allowed: Embrace Gender Identity,” and “Consecrate Sex Toys” use occult knowledge and Saint Thomas’s award-winning relationship writing to manifest a spell book that does something genuinely magickal: it works. Sex Witch is real. Love is not always fair. Sometimes we get hurt or hurt others. Using the magic inside, you’ll learn how to stay balanced during these ups and downs: •Break toxic cycles. •Use candle magic to summon the perfect partner. •Embrace and unleash your kinks. •Navigate relationships through rough patches. •Get over former lovers. •Practice self-forgiveness and self-kindness.
Sex Witch
Author: Sophie Saint Thomas
Publisher: Weiser Books
ISBN: 163341194X
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
“A shameless celebration of sexual freedom, Sex Witch encourages us to cultivate the potent, political powers we all possess within our hearts and minds and between our thighs.” -- Kristen J. Sollée, author of Witch Hunt, Cat Call, and Witches, Sluts, Feminists Sex Witch combines occult knowledge with tried-and-true relationship advice to provide spells for each stage of a relationship. Self-love, seduction, sex, love, protection, revenge, and healing are all covered. The spells, such as “A Tarot Spread to Find Which Relationship Format Is Right for You,” “No TERFS Allowed: Embrace Gender Identity,” and “Consecrate Sex Toys” use occult knowledge and Saint Thomas’s award-winning relationship writing to manifest a spell book that does something genuinely magickal: it works. Sex Witch is real. Love is not always fair. Sometimes we get hurt or hurt others. Using the magic inside, you’ll learn how to stay balanced during these ups and downs: •Break toxic cycles. •Use candle magic to summon the perfect partner. •Embrace and unleash your kinks. •Navigate relationships through rough patches. •Get over former lovers. •Practice self-forgiveness and self-kindness.
Publisher: Weiser Books
ISBN: 163341194X
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
“A shameless celebration of sexual freedom, Sex Witch encourages us to cultivate the potent, political powers we all possess within our hearts and minds and between our thighs.” -- Kristen J. Sollée, author of Witch Hunt, Cat Call, and Witches, Sluts, Feminists Sex Witch combines occult knowledge with tried-and-true relationship advice to provide spells for each stage of a relationship. Self-love, seduction, sex, love, protection, revenge, and healing are all covered. The spells, such as “A Tarot Spread to Find Which Relationship Format Is Right for You,” “No TERFS Allowed: Embrace Gender Identity,” and “Consecrate Sex Toys” use occult knowledge and Saint Thomas’s award-winning relationship writing to manifest a spell book that does something genuinely magickal: it works. Sex Witch is real. Love is not always fair. Sometimes we get hurt or hurt others. Using the magic inside, you’ll learn how to stay balanced during these ups and downs: •Break toxic cycles. •Use candle magic to summon the perfect partner. •Embrace and unleash your kinks. •Navigate relationships through rough patches. •Get over former lovers. •Practice self-forgiveness and self-kindness.
Sex and the Psychic Witch
Author: Annette Blair
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440622884
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440622884
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA.
Witches, Sluts, Feminists
Author: Kristen J. Sollée
Publisher: Threel Media
ISBN: 9780996485272
Category : HISTORY
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Exposing how "witch" and "slut" are used to police female sexuality, the author rehabilitates these sex positive archetypes.
Publisher: Threel Media
ISBN: 9780996485272
Category : HISTORY
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Exposing how "witch" and "slut" are used to police female sexuality, the author rehabilitates these sex positive archetypes.
Demon Lovers
Author: Walter Stephens
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226772622
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
On September 20, 1587, Walpurga Hausmännin of Dillingen in southern Germany was burned at the stake as a witch. Although she had confessed to committing a long list of maleficia (deeds of harmful magic), including killing forty—one infants and two mothers in labor, her evil career allegedly began with just one heinous act—sex with a demon. Fornication with demons was a major theme of her trial record, which detailed an almost continuous orgy of sexual excess with her diabolical paramour Federlin "in many divers places, . . . even in the street by night." As Walter Stephens demonstrates in Demon Lovers, it was not Hausmännin or other so-called witches who were obsessive about sex with demons—instead, a number of devout Christians, including trained theologians, displayed an uncanny preoccupation with the topic during the centuries of the "witch craze." Why? To find out, Stephens conducts a detailed investigation of the first and most influential treatises on witchcraft (written between 1430 and 1530), including the infamous Malleus Maleficarum (Hammer of Witches). Far from being credulous fools or mindless misogynists, early writers on witchcraft emerge in Stephens's account as rational but reluctant skeptics, trying desperately to resolve contradictions in Christian thought on God, spirits, and sacraments that had bedeviled theologians for centuries. Proof of the physical existence of demons—for instance, through evidence of their intercourse with mortal witches—would provide strong evidence for the reality of the supernatural, the truth of the Bible, and the existence of God. Early modern witchcraft theory reflected a crisis of belief—a crisis that continues to be expressed today in popular debates over angels, Satanic ritual child abuse, and alien abduction.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226772622
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
On September 20, 1587, Walpurga Hausmännin of Dillingen in southern Germany was burned at the stake as a witch. Although she had confessed to committing a long list of maleficia (deeds of harmful magic), including killing forty—one infants and two mothers in labor, her evil career allegedly began with just one heinous act—sex with a demon. Fornication with demons was a major theme of her trial record, which detailed an almost continuous orgy of sexual excess with her diabolical paramour Federlin "in many divers places, . . . even in the street by night." As Walter Stephens demonstrates in Demon Lovers, it was not Hausmännin or other so-called witches who were obsessive about sex with demons—instead, a number of devout Christians, including trained theologians, displayed an uncanny preoccupation with the topic during the centuries of the "witch craze." Why? To find out, Stephens conducts a detailed investigation of the first and most influential treatises on witchcraft (written between 1430 and 1530), including the infamous Malleus Maleficarum (Hammer of Witches). Far from being credulous fools or mindless misogynists, early writers on witchcraft emerge in Stephens's account as rational but reluctant skeptics, trying desperately to resolve contradictions in Christian thought on God, spirits, and sacraments that had bedeviled theologians for centuries. Proof of the physical existence of demons—for instance, through evidence of their intercourse with mortal witches—would provide strong evidence for the reality of the supernatural, the truth of the Bible, and the existence of God. Early modern witchcraft theory reflected a crisis of belief—a crisis that continues to be expressed today in popular debates over angels, Satanic ritual child abuse, and alien abduction.
The Witch-Hunt Narrative
Author: Ross E. Cheit
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190226331
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 531
Book Description
In the 1980s, a series of child sex abuse cases rocked the United States. The most famous case was the 1984 McMartin preschool case, but there were a number of others as well. By the latter part of the decade, the assumption was widespread that child sex abuse had become a serious problem in America. Yet within a few years, the concern about it died down considerably. The failure to convict anyone in the McMartin case and a widely publicized appellate decision in New Jersey that freed an accused molester had turned the dominant narrative on its head. In the early 1990s, a new narrative with remarkable staying power emerged: the child sex abuse cases were symptomatic of a 'moral panic' that had produced a witch hunt. A central claim in this new witch hunt narrative was that the children who testified were not reliable and easily swayed by prosecutorial suggestion. In time, the notion that child sex abuse was a product of sensationalized over-reporting and far less endemic than originally thought became the new common sense. But did the new witch hunt narrative accurately represent reality? As Ross Cheit demonstrates in his exhaustive account of child sex abuse cases in the past two and a half decades, purveyors of the witch hunt narrative never did the hard work of examining court records in the many cases that reached the courts throughout the nation. Instead, they treated a couple of cases as representative and concluded that the issue was blown far out of proportion. Drawing on years of research into cases in a number of states, Cheit shows that the issue had not been blown out of proportion at all. In fact, child sex abuse convictions were regular occurrences, and the crime occurred far more frequently than conventional wisdom would have us believe. Cheit's aim is not to simply prove the narrative wrong, however. He also shows how a narrative based on empirically thin evidence became a theory with real social force, and how that theory stood at odds with a far more grim reality. The belief that the charge of child sex abuse was typically a hoax also left us unprepared to deal with the far greater scandal of child sex abuse in the Catholic Church, which, incidentally, has served to substantiate Cheit's thesis about the pervasiveness of the problem. In sum, The Witch-Hunt Narrative is a magisterial and empirically powerful account of the social dynamics that led to the denial of widespread human tragedy.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190226331
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 531
Book Description
In the 1980s, a series of child sex abuse cases rocked the United States. The most famous case was the 1984 McMartin preschool case, but there were a number of others as well. By the latter part of the decade, the assumption was widespread that child sex abuse had become a serious problem in America. Yet within a few years, the concern about it died down considerably. The failure to convict anyone in the McMartin case and a widely publicized appellate decision in New Jersey that freed an accused molester had turned the dominant narrative on its head. In the early 1990s, a new narrative with remarkable staying power emerged: the child sex abuse cases were symptomatic of a 'moral panic' that had produced a witch hunt. A central claim in this new witch hunt narrative was that the children who testified were not reliable and easily swayed by prosecutorial suggestion. In time, the notion that child sex abuse was a product of sensationalized over-reporting and far less endemic than originally thought became the new common sense. But did the new witch hunt narrative accurately represent reality? As Ross Cheit demonstrates in his exhaustive account of child sex abuse cases in the past two and a half decades, purveyors of the witch hunt narrative never did the hard work of examining court records in the many cases that reached the courts throughout the nation. Instead, they treated a couple of cases as representative and concluded that the issue was blown far out of proportion. Drawing on years of research into cases in a number of states, Cheit shows that the issue had not been blown out of proportion at all. In fact, child sex abuse convictions were regular occurrences, and the crime occurred far more frequently than conventional wisdom would have us believe. Cheit's aim is not to simply prove the narrative wrong, however. He also shows how a narrative based on empirically thin evidence became a theory with real social force, and how that theory stood at odds with a far more grim reality. The belief that the charge of child sex abuse was typically a hoax also left us unprepared to deal with the far greater scandal of child sex abuse in the Catholic Church, which, incidentally, has served to substantiate Cheit's thesis about the pervasiveness of the problem. In sum, The Witch-Hunt Narrative is a magisterial and empirically powerful account of the social dynamics that led to the denial of widespread human tragedy.
Sex, Death and Witchcraft
Author: Douglas Ezzy
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 147252201X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
Faunalia is a controversial Pagan festival with a reputation for being wild and emotionally intense. It lasts five days, 80 people attend, and the two main rituals run most of the night. In the tantalisingly erotic Baphomet rite, participants encounter a hermaphroditic deity, enter a state of trance and dance naked around a bonfire. In the Underworld rite participants role play their own death, confronting grief and suffering. These rituals are understood as "shadow work" - a Jungian term that refers to practices that creatively engage repressed or hidden aspects of the self. Sex, Death and Witchcraft is a powerful application of relational theory to the study of religion and contemporary culture. It analyses Faunalia's rituals in terms of recent innovations in the sociology of religion and religious studies that focus on relational etiquette, lived religion, embodiment and performance. The sensuous and emotionally intense ritual performances at Faunalia transform both moral orientations and self-understandings. Participants develop an ethical practice that is individualistic, but also relational, and aesthetically mediated. Extensive extracts from interviews describe the rituals in participants' own words. The book combines rich and evocative description of the rituals with careful analysis of the social processes that shape people's experiences at this controversial Pagan festival.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 147252201X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
Faunalia is a controversial Pagan festival with a reputation for being wild and emotionally intense. It lasts five days, 80 people attend, and the two main rituals run most of the night. In the tantalisingly erotic Baphomet rite, participants encounter a hermaphroditic deity, enter a state of trance and dance naked around a bonfire. In the Underworld rite participants role play their own death, confronting grief and suffering. These rituals are understood as "shadow work" - a Jungian term that refers to practices that creatively engage repressed or hidden aspects of the self. Sex, Death and Witchcraft is a powerful application of relational theory to the study of religion and contemporary culture. It analyses Faunalia's rituals in terms of recent innovations in the sociology of religion and religious studies that focus on relational etiquette, lived religion, embodiment and performance. The sensuous and emotionally intense ritual performances at Faunalia transform both moral orientations and self-understandings. Participants develop an ethical practice that is individualistic, but also relational, and aesthetically mediated. Extensive extracts from interviews describe the rituals in participants' own words. The book combines rich and evocative description of the rituals with careful analysis of the social processes that shape people's experiences at this controversial Pagan festival.
Sex Witch
Author: Sophie Saint Thomas
Publisher: Weiser Books
ISBN: 1578637201
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
"This book combines real-life sex and relationship advice with ancient occult knowledge. The spells work on a spiritual and practical level and are inclusive of the entire dating experience, including pain and love. Readers learn the art of spellcraft combined with communication and confidence techniques for maximum efficiency"--
Publisher: Weiser Books
ISBN: 1578637201
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
"This book combines real-life sex and relationship advice with ancient occult knowledge. The spells work on a spiritual and practical level and are inclusive of the entire dating experience, including pain and love. Readers learn the art of spellcraft combined with communication and confidence techniques for maximum efficiency"--
Magickal Sex
Author: Fiona Horne
Publisher: Thorsons Publishers
ISBN: 9780007141333
Category : Magic
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Magickal Sex" is the perfect guide for anyone who wants to bring some extra-special witchy magick into the bedroom. Horne shows readers how to work with sexual energies in a disciplined, magickal way--thereby empowering and positively affecting the whole life. 80 illustrations.
Publisher: Thorsons Publishers
ISBN: 9780007141333
Category : Magic
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Magickal Sex" is the perfect guide for anyone who wants to bring some extra-special witchy magick into the bedroom. Horne shows readers how to work with sexual energies in a disciplined, magickal way--thereby empowering and positively affecting the whole life. 80 illustrations.
Taboo Rituals of a Sex Witch
Author: Zoe Lawrence
Publisher: HoneyMii Books
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
The High Priestess stepped forward and undid the clasps at the front of Cassie's robe. With a whisper, the robe slipped down her body and lay at her feet. Cassie stood naked in front of the coven. An electric quiver of anticipation flowed through her. The High Priestess unfastened her own robe, and it, too, slipped down to her feet. At this sign, the other members of the coven removed their robes. Cassie is both beautiful and sexy, an artist with a deep passion for nature. So when an art commission leads her to the door of an astrology store, she meets its proprietor, the dazzling Enya. Like Cassie, Enya is hot and bi-sexual; she is also a Wiccan – a witch – and one whose coven practices sex magic. Soon, Cassie and Enya begin to practise spells to enhance their sexual ecstasy. When Cassie decides to join the coven, she learns she must undertake an initiation sex ritual that will push her to the very limits of ecstasy.
Publisher: HoneyMii Books
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
The High Priestess stepped forward and undid the clasps at the front of Cassie's robe. With a whisper, the robe slipped down her body and lay at her feet. Cassie stood naked in front of the coven. An electric quiver of anticipation flowed through her. The High Priestess unfastened her own robe, and it, too, slipped down to her feet. At this sign, the other members of the coven removed their robes. Cassie is both beautiful and sexy, an artist with a deep passion for nature. So when an art commission leads her to the door of an astrology store, she meets its proprietor, the dazzling Enya. Like Cassie, Enya is hot and bi-sexual; she is also a Wiccan – a witch – and one whose coven practices sex magic. Soon, Cassie and Enya begin to practise spells to enhance their sexual ecstasy. When Cassie decides to join the coven, she learns she must undertake an initiation sex ritual that will push her to the very limits of ecstasy.
Nun, Witch, Playmate
Author: Herbert Richardson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780060668532
Category : Sex customs
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780060668532
Category : Sex customs
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description