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“Feral House has reprinted Francis King’s entertaining tour of the history of sexual magic and its intersections with various Western esoteric traditions… Sometimes archly, sometimes bemusedly, sometimes with wicked irony, he presents little nuggets such as the founder of Scientology’s (L. Ron Hubbard) connection to Aleister Crowley’s Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.)… King manages to hold the reader’s attention with his many juicy asides, and the occasional excursus into surprising topics… I cannot escape the impression that King himself is part of the data for scholars of religion to study.”
— Nova Religio

“Thank you, Feral House, for making this book available again! Sexuality, Magic & Perversion’s cult reputation rests on its status as a fairly innovative and ground-breaking work… Not a scholarly tome but a popular history, and it covers a lot of ground, from the pagan orgies of the ancient Greeks to the sacramental shagging of the Fraturnitas Saturni… A panoply of rare photos and illustrations, as well as lengthy quotations from obscure volumes you and I are unlikely ever to see, increase the worth of theis book to occult researchers.”
— Headpress

“9/10: Fascinating—but definitely not for the prudish.”
— Fortean Times

“A controversial, revelatory, highly recommended volume of original research that investigates sexuality in religions and traditions all over the globe, from fertility cults and tantricism to Islamic mysticism and Crowleyan sex magick. A tantalizing study of the mystical aspect of sex, heavily researched and presenting information about the life and work of outspoken yet little-known figures who distinguished themselves, for good or for bad, in the intersecting fields of sex and religion. This new Feral House edition will admirably serve to introduce a whole new generation to this seminal, ground-breaking work on human sexuality.”
— Midwest Book Review