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1 de dic. de 2010 · Books. Sexual Outlaw, Erotic Mystic: The Essential Ida Craddock. Sex, Magick, Aleister Crowley, Orgasms, Erotic Dances, Angelic Beings, Revolutionary Activism, Liberation, Persecution, Defiance, and Suicide. Persecuted by Anthony Comstock and his Society for the Suppression of Vice, this turn-of-the-century heroine was also a spiritualist who ...
11 de dic. de 2010 · In a new biography of 1890s sexual activist Ida C. Craddock, Heaven's Bride, professor Leigh Eric Schmidt brings to light the life of the little-known "mystic, martyr, and madwoman."
5 de ago. de 2020 · Ida Craddock died for her beliefs as a martyr in the struggle for sexual enlightenment, women’s liberation, and freedom of speech, while the esoteric and occult aspects of her intellectual legacy are equally important. Sexual Outlaw, Erotic Mystic provides a well-informed overview of the major aspects of Craddock’s life and work.
Ida C. Craddock was a forceful public exponent of women's rights and sexual freedom whose interest in Theosophy and Spiritualism led her into a profound involvement with the occult. Attacked by conservatives as promoting obscenity and immorality on account of her reforming activities, Craddock became the focus of an organised campaign of persecution.
Ida Craddock: Sexual Mystic and Martyr for Freedom. ON MARRIAGE The Wedding Night Right Marital Living. SPIRITUAL SEXUALITY Heavenly Bridegrooms Psychic Wedlock Spiritual Joys. LETTERS Ida to her Mother on the day of her suicide Ida to the Public on the day of her suicide. REVIEWS AND COMMENTARY Review of Heavenly Bridegrooms in the Equinox
7 de dic. de 2010 · Ida C. Craddock, frustrated intellectual, oppressed daughter, sometime stenographer, and full-time mystic goes into the sex counseling business. The author gives a minute by minute account of her battles with the oppressive Comstock censorship laws, but really doesn't tell much about her personal life, so it's like reading about a cardboard character fighting an evil dragon.
26 de nov. de 2012 · Ida Craddock took her own life in October 1902, rather than face the 5-year federal prison term she seemed certain to receive following her conviction for distributing this work through the U.S. Mail. It is a short (24-page) pamphlet addressed to young women and men about to embark on a sexual relationship and an honest and frank effort to alleviate the ignorance which both sexes often brought ...
