Reviews of: Vere Chappell's Sexual Outlaw, Erotic Mystic: The Essential Ida Craddock.
A skeptic view (fantasy prone, sexual abuse, etc.) on the following but still interesting:
THE MAGONIA BLOG: Sexual Outlaw, on the story Ida Craddock. Craddock (1857-1902) was a sexologist, who learned about sexual pleasures from 'Soph' a ghost. Parallels to Mary, to contactees, succubi and incubus, and to all those sexual-supernatural unions are obvious. I haven't read the book; I'm not familiar with Craddock but I'm looking forward to reading this book.
I notice that the forward is written by
Tarot author and scholar Mary K. Greer.
Craddock was the victim of her times; the moral setting she lived in would have put her in prison for her attitudes, (she was the target of
"Anthony Comstock and his Society for the Suppression of Vice . . ." according to this review on Vere Chappell's bio page.) Instead, she committed suicide.
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