Sex and the paranormal - Paul Deane

You thought sex was a 'had to be there', physical experience? And that it takes, well, living beings to make the walls shake? Think again! This book peers for the first time into the dark corners of those places where a basic human physical desire and natural activity meets with an equally fervent and longstanding fascination with the unknown, mysterious and supernatural. From sex and witchcraft to demon lovers, all forms of human sexual encounter with the supernatural - real, fabled or imagined - are presented and thoroughly turned over in this thought-provoking and revelatory book. Sensational, it most certainly is. The book's central focus is on the thousands of reports of human sexual encounters with supernatural beings that have occurred over the years (irresistible chapter titles include 'Satanism in the suburbs' and 'Aliens stole my virginity!'). The encounters are startlingly common, with people claiming to have had sex with ghosts, aliens, demons, poltergeists, old hags and angels. Then there are the strange examples of penissnatching epidemics, outbreaks of suburban sexual mass hysteria and the belief in secret supernatural orgies. The wealth of stories is amazing and the experiences and phenomena they purport to describe are almost beyond belief. The author has the truly unique talent of entertaining and providing a serious account of the strange phenomena. This is a book everyone will want to read (even if they pretend they don't...).