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The review presents Urban's argument that sexual magic in modern Western esotericism has been a persistent and significant practice, evolving from nineteenth-century occultism to contemporary movements, and often linked to themes of transgression and liberation.
Abstract
Hugh B. Urban, Magia Sexualis: Sex, Magic, and Liberation in Modern Western Esotericism. University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles, London, 2006, pp. xi + 336, ISBN 978-0-520-24776-5 (Hbk). R
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