In his writings on the subject, Aleister Crowley strongly advances the view, slightly adapted from Freud, that sexual repression is the root of sexual perversion. In this day and age, I don’t think anyone would dispute that. In the interest of striking a balance, we might add that excessive sexual expression can result in perversion as well (for ( Read more... )

Viewing pornographic material has, up until about ten or fifteen years ago, been a shameful and clandestine endeavor. As a result of this, there is not a great deal of analysis devoted to porn as literature. This is something that really needs doing, because there is a generation of young males that are growing up and discovering their sexual ( Read more... )

Why do I call myself a feminist ( Read more... )

“Abusive men come in every personality type, arise from good childhoods and bad ones, are macho men or gentle, “liberated” men. No psychological test can distinguish an abusive man from a respectful one. Abusiveness is not a product of a man’s emotional injuries or of deficits in his skills. In reality, abuse springs from a man’s early cultural ( Read more... )

"The Astral Body is not always of the same sex as the terrestrial, that is, the pro ( Read more... )

Lately, people have been talking about Crowley’s ideas about women. This is something that I think about a great deal. For someone who described himself as “the fiercest of feminists,” he doesn’t really have a matching reputation. This post looks broadly at the treatment of women in Crowley’s material, focusing on a few things that will make ( Read more... )

"...and also there is the legend of Eve and the Serpent, for Cain was the child of Eve and the Serpent, not of Eve and Adam; and therefore when he had slain his brother, who was the first murderer, having sacrificed living things to his demon, had Cain the mark upon his brow, which is the mark of the Beast spoken of in Apocolypse and the sign of ( Read more... )

I’d be particularly interested in feedback on this article.  I’ve been over it a few times and I feel as though there is something vital I’m not being clear about, but for the life of me I can’t put my finger on it at the moment...

Because there has been much wrong to redress, victim-identity has wound itself round the fundamental ontology of ( Read more... )

In “The Disappearance of Childhood,” Postman identifies shame as the crucial component of civilisation.  I think that this is very important.  Unless certain activities and behaviours carry with them a self-imposed** social stigma, a regulated society in which the distinctions between “childhood” and “adulthood” (and equally, the distinctions ( Read more... )

I appreciate sexual freedom.

I say that unequivocally.  There are a lot of pieces of art, as well as more mundane studies and lines of inquiry that would once have been unacceptable to the mainstream public discourse that are now totally integrated.  I think that’s a good thing.  The problem is that, every time free speech makes a gain, plutocratic ( Read more... )