Sexual ritual

As a result, plants have a quite different focus to their reproductive activities from that of most familiar animals. From butterflies to bowerbirds, animals pour great energy into sexual rituals... 

Remark Sexual rituals are normally very complex, with several different components. Utilizing sound by itself to attract females will likely select against those females that ignore components other than sound. Thus, it is expected that over time, the attractiveness of the electronically produced sound will become less and less. 

Camphausen, Rufus C. The encyclopedia of erotic wisdom a reference guide to the symbolism, techniques, rituals, sacred texts, psychology, anatomy and history of sexuality. Rochester (VT) Inner Traditions International, 1991. xvi, 269 p. ISBN 0-89281-321-0... 

The terror of this experience with her father along with her mothers refusal to help her, forced young Cathy to dissociate from these events by creating an entirely new personality, to deal with her father. Traumatic events in one s life can create a repressed memory or a condition of shock so severe that the victim becomes incapable of living with it on their own. In O Brien s case she discovered her family s perverted and abusive sexual history during her upbringing, but since that was all she knew, the acceptance of ritual abuse was sadly became the norm. 

There are strict taboos to keep for several days after eating the sacred leaves, such as not having any sexual contacts. It is also important to be ritually mindful when collecting the leaves, and also in cleaning up after the ceremony. 

Tantra is based on the premise that the Universe is composed of a male and a female force. The female force is represented by the goddess Shakti who has an all-important and active role. The passive male force is personified by the god Shiva. He is helpless without Shakti, and man in turn is considered helpless without woman. Women are the key to salvation and it is through women, by ritual sexual intercourse, that the goddess Shakti can be approached. Ritual sexual intercourse may be physical, or may be merely symbolic. Those who choose the physical way are known as followers of the left hand way because the female sexual partner is seated on the left of the male at the start of the ritual. Those who choose the symbolic method are known as followers of the right hand way because the woman sits on the right of the man. 

The Indo-Hittite traditions of both the goat and bee are quite different from those of the Afro-Asiaties. The goat, above all the young kid, is the pure s nnbol of the initiate rather than the sexually craven he-goat. Sexual proclivity could not be further from contemplation in Indo-Hittite, hermetic and Zoroastrian rituals ... 

In the next chapter, we shall see how Freemasonry and Rosicrucianism prospered, while the Knights Templar apparently lost touch with the fine line between esotericism and heresy. The Roman Catholic Church accepted the former. It even incorporated it into its living church rituals. The latter included the notorious Arabic grimoire magia, necromancy and a melange of Gnostic sexual practices. 

Medfly males produce three distinct sounds as part of their sexual communication ritual. Their calling song is a low amplitude vibration at350cps, and can be the attractant sought (Mizrach et al., 2004). This sound, when artificially produced by a sound speaker, was found to attract a large proportion of test females. Females thus attracted could be killed electrically or by other means. 

Another episode was more fictitious and one of the purest cases of moral panic. Superimposed on the very real phenomenon of childhood sexual abuse and incest, came the recovered memory of childhood incest bitter debates about the existence of repressed (and recovered) memories of childhood sexual abuse. In these therapeutic interstices, came the story of ritual child abuse , cult child abuse or Satanic abuse . In around 1983, disturbing reports began circulating about children (as well as adults in therapy who were recovering childhood memories) alleging that they had been sexually abused as part of the ritual of secret, Satanic cults, which included torture, cannibalism and... 

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