Sexual Magic

Since earliest times, men and women have taken advantage of sexual magic. By using talismans, love potions, specific rituals and ascetic practices to redirect sexuality away from procreation or pleasure, they achieve another end: the acquisition of special powers and the ability to affect reality in order to improve one’s love life, conquer impotence, stop infidelity, impel someone fall in love, or even to achieve ecstasy and merge with the Divine.

Sarane Alexandrian takes a look at this subject and explains how it was regarded as such an important area that it was used by both religious and political authorities during different historical eras.
He takes us through a roll call of the major theorists and practitioners of sexual magic that include, amongst others, Julius Evola, Aleister Crowley, Pascal Beverly Randolph, Maria de Naglowska and  Joséphin Péladan
The powers of sexuality: fabrication or reality? A 66-minute talk with an answer.