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A few bibliographical references and Internet links originally located elsewhere appear here, having quite deliberately been removed from what I and, I suspect, others may still feel was, academically speaking, their proper and more appropriate context.

Eroticism & Sexuality - Normal, Sacred, Deviant & Problematic

• 2884. MARC ALLEN, Tantra for the West - Everyday Miracles and other steps for Transformation (2nd edition, San Rafæl, CA: New World Library 1992).
• 2885.GEOFFREY ASHE, The Hell-Fire Clubs - A History of Anti-Morality, revised edition (Sutton Publishing Ltd., 2000).
• 2886-7. PAUL AVIS, Eros and the Sacred (SPCK, 1989); Anglican Orders and the Priesting of Women (Darton, Longman & Todd, 1999).
• 2888. P. BABA, Temple of the Phallic King (New York: Simon & Schuster 1973).
• 2889. PETER BALBERT, D. H. Lawrence & the Phallic Imagination - Essays on Sexual Identity and Feminist Misreading (Macmillan 1989).
• 2890. W. W. BARTLEY, III, Werner Erhard - The Transformation of a Man: The Founding of Est (New York: Clarkson N. Potter 1978, pp. 195 and 214 and passim: and somewhat modified) - "A transformed individual is one who can tell the truth; and a transformed environment is one where the truth can be told." Programming and reprogamming the Mind may enable one to become a success in terms of life-story, position and personality, but authentic Self-satisfaction is essentially nonpersonal, nonpositional and nonnarrative. It is the Mind state as such, not individual programs, conditions and circumstances within it, which lies at the root of dissatisfaction. Self-righteousness, resentment and emotional guilt, whether or not to any degree justified, inhibit appropriate cybernetic adaptation and optimum present functioning. Meditation (Japanese: zen, Chinese: ch'an, Sanskrit: dhyãna), relaxation and trance by de-hypnotizing the Mind allow consciousness freely to expand beyond these limitations. The Zen adept does not behave evaluatively toward persons or objects - in fact, doesn't behave at all. It is as if the things one were perceiving were perceiving themselves and making use of one's senses; one is able to take the viewpoint of the person or thing with whom one is in contact and to grant it beingness, i.e., its own proper suchness. Such a one does not impose her or his will on the other, and also does not permit her- or himself to be influenced by the will of the other - one lets be what is. While the average individual is a full human being with dampened and inhibited powers and capabilities (neurosis being some sort of deficiency disease), the self-actualizing person is both growth-oriented and complete - not only are his or her basic needs for food, air, clothing, shelter, social contact, sex, safety, love and belonging, and esteem satisfied but, as Abraham Maslow found, "such individuals have a more accurate perception of reality; a heightened acceptance of themselves, of others, and of nature; they are spontaneous, detached, desire privacy; they are autonomous, resistant to inculturation, but not rebels against authority; they are capable of fresh experience and of rich emotional reactions; they do not need groups and institutions and political parties for personal identification, but tend to identify with the human species as a whole; their interpersonal relations are of an unusually developed quality; they tend not to discriminate on the basis of social status, age, sex, race: they are more democratic; they are creative - and they have a high incidence of peak or mystical experiences in the course of their lives."
  Only by transcending the Mind, in all its manifestations, and by acknowledging the Self as the source of who one is, can dissatisfaction be vanquished and wholeness be attained. Anything falling short of transformation fails to produce satisfaction. Neither study nor discipline guarantees access to Self. How, then, is transformation to be attained? Although one cannot produce, by recipe, conditions sufficient to guarantee the emergence of a transformed individual, it is possible to identify and create the ecologically necessary conditions for such a mutation freely to occur.
  "What conditions foster and inspire transformation? What kind of econiche does one need, i.e., what are the personal, relational, and institutional conditions for transcending personality and ego in all their forms? How are our lives and institutions to be arranged so as to expose beliefs, policies, positions, traditions to maximum examination? What are the social, economic, environmental, cultural, psychological, and philosophical conditions that best inspire the growth and development of consciousness and the creation of transformation, which deter us from becoming stuck in our belief systems, attachments and commitments, and from thus stunting our powers of exploration and discovery?"
• 2891. ROBERT BATES, Sacred Sex - Erotic writings from the religions of the world (HarperCollins Fount 1993).
• 2892. STEPHEN BAYLEY, Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, editor, Sex - The Erotic Review (London: Cassell & Co., 2001), Other Contributors -

  Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Trevor Beattie, Rabbi Schmuley Boteach, Kate Copstick, Lesley Downer, David Gaimster, Jonathon Green, Christopher Hart, Philip Hensher, Ronald Hyam, Catherine Johns, Rowley Leigh, Nathan McLaughlin, James Maclean, John Pawson, Christopher Peachment, Will Self, Lizzie Speller, Revd Dave Tomlinson, Evelyn Welch, Xiao Jiao.

• 2893. ERIC BERNE, Sex in Human Loving (André Deutsch 1971).
• 2894. CLIFFORD BISHOP, Sex and Spirit (Macmillan Reference Books, and London: Duncan Baird Publishers, 1996).
• 2894*. WALTER BRAUN, The Cruel & The Meek - Sadism, masochism and flagellation, translated with additional material by N. Meyer (London: Senate, 1996).
• 2895. RUFUS C. CAMPHAUSEN, editor, Encyclopedia of Erotic Wisdom (Inner Traditions International 1991).
• 2896. MANTAK CHIA, Cultivating Female Sexual Energy (Huntington: Healing Tao Press 1986).
• 196 + 2897. ALAIN DANIÉLOU, translator, The Complete Kama Sutra - The First Unabridged Modern Translation of the Classic Indian Text by Vatsyayana, including the Jayamangala commentary from the Sanskrit by Yashodhara, and extracts from the Hindi commentary by Devadatta Shastra (Rochester, Vermont: Park Street Press 1994); Gods of Love & Ecstasy - The Traditions of Shiva & Dionysus (Inner Traditions International 1984).
• 1894 + 2898-901. NICK DOUGLAS &
  PENNY SLINGER, Sexual Secrets - The Alchemy of Ecstasy (London: Hutchinson 1979); Mountain Ecstasy (Paris: Dragon's Dream Ltd., 1978); The Pillow Book - Vol. 1: The Erotic Sentiment in the Paintings of India & Nepal; Vol. 2: The Erotic Sentiment in the Paintings of China & Japan (Rochester, Vermont: Park Street Press 1989, 1990); The Secret Dakini Oracle (Destiny Books, 1979). The authors, with whom Colin was once privileged to share a meal as a guest in their then London home, are widely recognized as experts in their chosen field.
• 2902. KEITH DOWMAN, Sky Dancer - The Secret Life & Songs of the Lady Yeshe Tsogyel (Routledge & Kegan Paul 1984; Arkana 1989).
• 2903. MARK EAMES, Body Piercing - 'Does it hurt?': A complete illustrated guide to body piercing (Cosham, England: NliteN Publications, 2001).
• 2904. GEORG EBERS, An Egyptian Princess, translated by Eleanor Grove, authorized edition in 2 volumes (Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1871).
• 2905. JULIUS EVOLA, The Metaphysics of Sex (East-West Publications 1983).
• 2906. STEVE FENTONE, AntiCristo - The Bible of Nasty Nun Sinema & Culture (Guilford: FAB Press, 2000).
• 2907. ANTON GILL, City of Dreams - The Second Egyptian Mystery (London: Bloomsbury Paperback, 1994).
• 504. LUCY GOODISON, Moving Heaven And Earth - Sexuality, Spirituality & Social Change (The Women's Press, 1990).
• 2908. LUKE GOSLING, editor, Front (Issue 80, March 2005) - contents include "Forgotten Soldiers", "Apocalypse Now", "Surviving The Apocalypse" and "Tsunami Survivor"; fantasy supplement features Melanie Borman, Jerri Byrne, Emily Oldfield, Jodi Oram, Lauren Pope…
• 2909. ALMUDENA GRANDES, The Ages of Lulu (London: Abacus 1993) - alleged to transcend The Story of O.
• 2910. DORIEN GREEN, Dorien's Diary - My Intimate Confessions (ISBN 1 85793 286 2).
• 2911. LADY GREEN, The Sexually Dominant Woman - a workbook for nervous beginners (San Fancisco: Greenery Press, 1998).
• 2912. ALEX GREY, Sacred Mirrors - The Visionary Art of Alex Gray (Inner Traditions International 1990).
• 2913. INGER & STEN HEGELER, Living is Loving (Panther 1971).
• 2914. ANDREW HO, Managing Editor, Centuries of Chinese Nude in Photography (Yongder Hall Ltd., 1990).
• 519. STEWART HOME, 69 Things to Do with a Dead Princess (Edinburgh: Canongate, 2003) - According to the New Statesman this author is "one of our most important and interesting novelists".
• 1557*. JEFFREY HOPKINS, The Tantric Distinction - An Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism (Boston: Wisdom Press, 1984).
• 2915. M. JAKUBOWSKI & M. J. LEWIS, editors, The Mammoth Book of Erotic Photography (London: Robinson, 2002) - recommended especially for two, one feels, "vampire"-related studies by John Dietrich, which appear on pp. 105-6.
• 2916. HARISH JOHARI, Tools for Tantra (Destiny Books 1986).
• 2917. BUBBA FREE JOHN, Love of the two-armed form - The free and regenerative function of sexuality in ordinary life, and the transcendence of sexuality in true religious or spiritual practice (Middletown, CA: Dawn Horse Press 1978).
• 2918. J. JOHNSON, Natural Family Planning (London: CTS 1981).
• 2919. MAX LAKE, Scents and Sensuality - The Essence of Excitement (John Murray 1989).
• 2755. D. H. LAWRENCE, Lady Chatterley's Lover (London: BCA 1993).
• 2920. ANNICK LE GUÉRER, Scent - The Mysterious & Essential Powers of Smell (Chatto & Windus 1993).
• 2921. BRENDA LOVE, Encyclopedia of Unusual Sex Practices (Greenwich Editions 1999). Like it or not, this is a thorough account of established praxis in a variety of countries and cultural environments - it is not a poetic fancy...
• 2922. A. T. MANN & JANE LYLE, Sacred Sexuality (Element Books 1995).
• 2923. HERBERT MARCUSE, Eros and Civilization (New York: Beacon Press 1965).
• 2924. LAURENCE MARKS & MAURICE GRAN, Dorien's Diary by Dorien Green - My Intimate Confessions (Pavilion Books 1993).
• 2925. J. MARQUES RIVIÈRE, Tantrik Yoga (Aquarian Press 1973).
• 2926. HENRI MARROU, The Resurrection and Saint Augustine's Theology of Human Values, translated by Mother Maria Consolata (Villanova: 1966, pp. 23-25) - quotes from Augustine's Sermon 243: "If even in this infirmity of the flesh and even in the frailness of our members such a loveliness of the body is apparent, a loveliness which entices the voluptuous and excites them to seek it… How much more [beauty will appear] there, where there will be no voluptuousness, no depravity, no dire necessity…?"
• 2927. HENRI MATISSE, "Sadness of the Blue Nude" (1952) - a significant painting. Matisse died on 3rd November 1954, aged 84.
• 2928. N. MAYNE, The Song of Songs which is Solomon's (London: Charles Skilton Ltd., 1969).
• 2929. McCOY'S, British Massage Parlour Guide (2005-2006 Edition).
• 2116 + 2930. MEDIÆVAL BÆBES, Songs of the Flesh (London: Erotic Print Society, November 2000) "The bæbes' royalties for this book will go towards the women's charity NAWO. The National Alliance of Women's Organisations is an umbrella organisation - an alliance of about 200 members… which aims to bring widely diverse women's organisations together to achieve equality and justice for all women… Monitoring the extent and effect of the implementation of gender mainstreaming policies and working towards ensuring that the Beijing commitment to a global enjoyment of Human Rights reaches all women, everywhere… is the Human Rights project which has been chosen to benefit from the Mediæval Bæbes' share of the proceeds of sale of this book."
• "The Mediæval Bæbes at Witchfest" in MERLYN, editor, Witchcraft & Wicca (London: Children of Artemis, Beltane to Lammas 2002 ), p.12-13:

  "In the spring of 1996, in the dingy caverns of Berlin's cabaret circuit, Katharine Blake, enchanting singer with the unusual band 'Miranda Sex Garden' met Dorothy Carter, dotty, yet deadly committed musician devoted to the music of the mediæval era… The Bæbes proved to be too hot for The Sun who refused to run an article on the band after they'd thoroughly frightened one of their journalists. The Bæbes have also managed to get themselves banned from performing on Songs of Praise for their 'Pagan beliefs'… The Mediæval Bæbes sing a number of traditional songs, mostly in Latin…"
  p. 61:"You can count your lover's infidelities by adding up the numbers at the bottom of a page."

John-Paul II's Blessing, sent to Bishop Michæl in 2005

• 2931-3. P. MICHÆL MICARI, otherwise known as SATCHAKRANANDA, writing as YOUR FRIEND AT THE BUREAU OF SABOTAGE, “The Diagnosis & Treatment of Ashram Disease: Part 1, Diagnosis” and “Part 2, Treatment” (undated copy presented by Bishop Michæl to the Preliminary LibrArian); also: Tibetan style “Tablet” (re-issued 1995), and “Wait One Prophetic Moment” (dated pamphlet privately circulated to all Cardinals and various others in communion with the Apostolic See, including the Preliminary LibrArian emeritus, Budardalur, Iceland: Fire & Ice Hermitage [this URL appears to have changed recently], 1996).
  Especially, perhaps, in the United States of North America, and also in the U.K., just as it is the in thing to initiate and vigorously pursue a lawsuit or, at the very least, make such social noises as to intimate that "the game's afoot", so it is considered good form in certain circles to enhance one's prior College or University education by entering "therapy", especially "psychotherapy" of one kind or other - even though a majority of cultivated citizens have always suspected that Doctor Sigmund Freud was something of "a fraud".
• 2934-5. RICHARD ALAN MILLER, The Magical & Ritual Use of Herbs; The Magical & Ritual Use of Perfumes (Destiny Books 1983, 1990).
• 2936. JANE MILLS, editor, Bloomsbury Guide to Erotic Literature (London 1993).
• 2937. MERVYN MITTON, Sexual Problems - Herbal Remedies (Foulsham 1992).
• 2938. PATRICE LOUIS PIERRE MONTJOIE SÉGUR DE LA JAMINIÈRE, La Dame De La Vienne - Bouquin Premier (St. Merryn - Padstow: Montmartre Editions, no date).
• 1187a. KAROL MYSLIWIEC, Eros on the Nile translated from the Polish Eros nad Nilem (1998) by GEOFFREY L. PACKER (Duckworth, 2004).
• 2939. ELIZABETH NASH & RICHARD FOX, The Pleasures of Love - An Erotic Guide to the Senses (London: Pavilion Books 1995).
• 1941-4. MITSOU E. NASLEDNIKOV (= MARGO ANAND), Le Chemin de l'Extase (Paris: Albin Michel 1987); The Art of Sexual Ecstasy - The Path of Sacred Sexuality for Western Lovers (London: Aquarian Press 1990); The Art of Sexual Magic - How to use Sexual Energy to Transform Your Life, and The Art of Everyday Ecstasy - The seven Tantric keys for bringing passion, spirit and joy into every part of your life (Piatkus Books 1996, 1998).

• When living in London Colin trained for two weeks with Margo and her team at intermediate and advanced levels in France. After moving to Exeter, he took part in a week-end course in the U.K. for which she was one of three participating facilitators. Male Tantric celibacy is, of course, never to be confused with Tantra as suited to married couples. See 548-9 below.
• 545. J. B. NELSON & S. P. LONGFELLOW, editors, Sexuality and the Sacred - Sources for Theological Reflection (Mowbray 1994).
• 548-9. DANIEL ODIER, Desire - The Tantric Path to Awakening (Rochester, Vermont: Inner Traditions International, 2001) - translated from Désirs, passions & spiritualité (Éditions JC Lattès, 1999) by Clare Marie Frock. Highly recommended for further personal reading and meditation.
• Each person's story deserves to be told, is entitled to be heard and ought also, within its proper context, sincerely to be cherished and never merely respected - let alone rejected. That said, no one individual's account ever does justice to the objective claims of Beauty, Goodness, Love, Truth. Daniel Odier's book is highly recommended for further personal reading and meditation, but unlikely to enlighten readers who find it hard to reconcile what is stated here and elsewhere about such seemingly disparate approaches to love, life, sex, pleasure and violence as those widely held to be typical of an Aleister Crowley, alien android, Cathar ascetic, cloistered nun, dominant Mistress, English Puritan, Knight Templar, Marquis de Sade, Nazi stormtrooper, Roman Inquisitor, Tantric initiate, contemporary witch or any average man or woman of the world.

• 2940. Pope PIUS XII, Encyclical Letter: Meminisse Juvat (1958), quoted in STEVE FENTONE's AntiCristo - The Bible of Nasty Nun Sinema & Culture (FAB Press, 2000), p.7 -

  "Great numbers of the populace, especially in the uneducated lower orders, are easily decoyed by errors widely circulated and sometimes made attractive by the outward appearance of truth. The seductions and incitement of vice, printed in every class of literature, through the cinema and television stir up the passions, and corrupt most easily unwary youth. There are some people who write and blatantly publish their writings, not to draw their readers to truth, to virtue, to wholesome amusement, but rather to excite them to evil and disorderly cravings, and that for money's sake; and their purpose even is to shock and try to defile all that is sacred, fair and noble. Quite often, alas, is truth basely counterfeited, and what is false and shameful is publicly proclaimed."

  "The seductions and incitement of vice, printed in every class of literature, through the cinema and television stir up the passions, and corrupt most easily unwary youth. There are some people who write and blatantly publish their writings, not to draw their readers to truth, to virtue, to wholesome amusement, but rather to excite them to evil and disorderly cravings, and that for money's sake; and their purpose even is to shock and try to defile all that is sacred, fair and noble. Quite often, alas, is truth basely counterfeited, and what is false and shameful is publicly proclaimed."

• 2941-2. PAULINE RÉAGE, The Story of O (Corgi Books: Part I, 1972; Part II, 1985).
• 2943. FRANK POMERANZ & PETER DARVILL-EVANS, English translation by, The New Story of O (W. H. Allen & Co., 1990).
• 2944. FLEUR REYNOLDS, Handmaiden of Palmyra (London: Black Lace, 2002).
• 2945. L. RHINEHART, The Diceman (1972).
• 2545, 2946-7. ANNE O'BRIEN RICE writing as A. N. ROQUELAURE, The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty; Beauty's Punishment and Beauty's Release (Plume Books, 1990).
• 2948. MICHÈLE ROBERTS, Playing Sardines (Virago Books, 2002).
• 2949. THOMAS S. ROCHE, Dark Matter (Rhinoceros, 1997) - deliciously disturbing! 1989).
• 2950. J. L. ROSENBERG, Total Orgasm (London: Wildwood House 1974).
• 2950*. LISA ST. AUBIN DE TERÁN, Joanna (Virago, 1990).
• 2951. TERENCE SELLERS, Dungeon Evidence - The Correct Sadist II (London: Velvet Publications 1997). Terence Sellers, formerly a Roman Catholic nun, has worked as a psychotherapist and is an internationally known professional writer.
• 2247. ANDREW SINCLAIR, The Secret Scroll (London: Sinclair-Stevenson, 2001) - pace Stewart Home, especially significant. Beautiful colour illustrations include one of a naked "St Mary Magdalene" with" the Grail", from a fresco in her basilica at St Maximin la Sainte, Baume.
• 2952. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Sonnets, 84, 1-2: “You alone are you” - always, of course, included in editions of his Complete Works.
• 2953. JUNE SINGER, Androgyny - Towards a new theory of Sexuality (Routledge & Kegan Paul 1977).
• 2954. BRADLEY SMITH, designer, The American Way of Sex - An Informal Illustrated History (A Gemini Smith Book, 1978).
• 2955. DAVID SPANGLER, Sex and Identity (Findhorn Foundation 1971).
• 2956. MARIE STOPES, Married Love, 26th edition (Hogarth Press, 1952)
• 2957. WILLIAM WELBY, "Naked and Unashamed" - Nudism from Six Points of View, Third Edition (Thorsons, 1934).

  Compare, more recently: "The ladies in Monaco have to ask themselves only one thing before getting dressed for a night out at Jimmyz, the principality's renowned night spot: 'What will look good when I'm dancing on the tables?' The answer is: anything - as long as it's low cut, tight and revealing. Reduced to its base elements, it's a familiar clubland uniform, but what separates Monaco from Manchester is the amount of designer clobber they pile on, especially if it comes with a Versace lable. In Monaco, sloppiness will get you nowhere. After all, this little tax haven is awash with millionaires." (The Sunday Times - Style, December 15th 2002, p.16.)

• 2958. JOHN WHITE, Eros Redeemed - Breaking the stranglehold of Sexual Sin (Guildford: Eagle 1993).
• 2959. J. WILSON, Logic and Sexual Morality (Penguin 1956).
• 2960. F. L. YU, T'ai Chi nude (San Francisco: And/Or Press 1975).
• 2961. ITALO ZANNIER & GUIDO VERGANI, The Pirelli Calendars Complete (Thames & Hudson 1997).

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