Magia Sexualis: Sex, Magic, and Liberation in Modern Western Esotericism

by Hugh B. Urban

Sexuality and the occult arts have long been associated in the western imagination, but it was not until the nineteenth century that a large and sophisticated body of literature on sexual magic--the use of sex as a source of magical power--emerged. This book, the first history of western sexual magic as a modern spiritual tradition, places these practices in the context of the larger discourse surrounding sexuality in American and European society...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520247760
• ISBN13: 9780520247765
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 349 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.1"