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The Eunuch and the Virgin: A Study of Curious Customs

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From the book jacket:

In this book a brilliant and original writer for the first time turns a searching light on the secret and shocking practices that mark the perennial war of perverse minds against the root of man--the war against sex.

Castration, mutilation, enforced virginity, celibacy, perversion--such have been the weapons, often disguised in bloody and brutal rites, that have been brought to bear against human life itself by men and women--people who have been twisted by their own impotencies, jealousies, greed for power, or by the mystic illusion of messianic call.

One by one the author examines, historically and in today's perspectives, the uses made of these weapons against sex--from the practices of the Chinese Court through the life of virgins in Oriental Harems, and even baring a fantastic secret plot to take over a major world power.

Here is a book that examines and explains the whole incredible struggle against the very flame of life itself.

Language: English

Pages: 304

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Bramhall House, a division of Clarkson N. Potter, Inc.

Release: May 10, 1962

The Eunuch and the Virgin: A Study of Curious Customs

3.8/5 ( ratings)

From the book jacket:

In this book a brilliant and original writer for the first time turns a searching light on the secret and shocking practices that mark the perennial war of perverse minds against the root of man--the war against sex.

Castration, mutilation, enforced virginity, celibacy, perversion--such have been the weapons, often disguised in bloody and brutal rites, that have been brought to bear against human life itself by men and women--people who have been twisted by their own impotencies, jealousies, greed for power, or by the mystic illusion of messianic call.

One by one the author examines, historically and in today's perspectives, the uses made of these weapons against sex--from the practices of the Chinese Court through the life of virgins in Oriental Harems, and even baring a fantastic secret plot to take over a major world power.

Here is a book that examines and explains the whole incredible struggle against the very flame of life itself.

Language: English

Pages: 304

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Bramhall House, a division of Clarkson N. Potter, Inc.

Release: May 10, 1962

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