A little earlier this year, Brill published Valentino Gasparini and Richard Veymier’s Individuals and Materials in the Greco-Roman Cults of Isis. The publisher’s site sez: “In Individuals and Materials in the Greco-Roman Cults of Isis Valentino Gasparini and Richard Veymiers present a collection of… Continue Reading
“Science keeps showing us that sex also doesn’t fit in a binary, whether it be determined by genitals, chromosomes, hormones, or bones (which are the subject of my research),” says Alexandra Kralick for Pacific Standard. “Skeletal studies, the field that… Continue Reading
Despite the imprecations of The Book of the Balance, there are many Thelemites who like to criticize prominent figures representing the Abrahamic religions while giving mulligans to other world religions and maintaining an adamantly blind eye to the flawed characters… Continue Reading
What’s your relationship style? Are you a person with more secure attachments, or do you tend to avoid interpersonal closeness? Do you think that might affect your sex life? Researchers Kristen Mark, Laura Vowels, and Sarah Murray also wanted to… Continue Reading
Guest presenter Soror Hypathia will be offering a series of lectures for OTO bodies in Europe. Among the many sessions being offered are OTO Initiation Symbolism, Ritual Construction, What I Did on My Magical Retirement, and Sex Magick and Overcoming… Continue Reading
The Palazzo Roverella in Rovigo, Italy has been hosting the Arte e Magia exhibition since the beginning of the Fall and continues through the end of January 2019. The institution’s site states: “Esotericism fascinates just about everyone, even great masters… Continue Reading
Knowing that sex workers are at disproportionate risk of violence and sexual and emotional ill health, researchers Lucy Platt, Pippa Grenfell, Rebecca Meiksin, Jocelyn Elmes, Susan G. Sherman, Teela Sanders, Peninah Mwangi, Anna-Louise Crago wanted to find out why. To… Continue Reading
Oxford University Press has announced the publication of a new title: Among the Scientologists History, Theology, and Praxis by Donald A. Westbrook. The publisher’s description of this tome is: “The Church of Scientology is one of the most recognizable American-born new… Continue Reading
What did fetish stores, wild hair styles, sex work, non-binary gender, and BDSM have in common? Punk Rock, says Lissa Rivera of New York’s Museum of Sex in an interview with Rolling Stone. “Sex is the fetish-wear, sex is putting… Continue Reading
Today in “we guessed this, but peer-reviewed science makes for better citations,” researchers Brittany Croft et al. at Melbourne’s Murdoch Children’s Research Institute learned more about how a baby’s sex is determined; it’s not just about the X-Y chromosomes, but involves… Continue Reading