and all this fluffy nonsense about committed monogamous relationships being the only valid vehicle for sex magic is pseudo-christian BS. it’s time to let go of the repression people. we’re humans, and not a naturally monogamous species. sex should always be approached with respect and informed consent, but limiting it beyond that is limiting its power.

there’s no left or right in magic, either. there’s just magic. stuffing it into left/right, dark/light categories cuts it in half. you need both sides for a complete spell.

I hope you are saying “just two adults of legal age capable and mutually committed to supporting and raising a child” in love. Pregnancy is a very natural and predictable aftermath of sex in rituals. Or, put another way, sex magic is also pregnancy magic. Don’t do the ritual if you aren’t ready to be raising children. The prospect of child support payments aren’t really covered in the ritual books. On the other hand, there are some folks who swear by it to select the sex and some of the characteristics of their children. And, I know some who impregnated or became pregnant who swear to this day that it was impossible. But, mix magic and sex, and pregnancy become not just possible but very likely. It wasn’t called fertility sex rituals for no reason.

Practical issues aside, sex can be used to harness a lot of psychic power. It can be used for healing and harming like electricity. Unlike electricity, it is intimate and how it is used may remain connected to you and affect you in a similar manner to your or your partner’s intent. Boomerang effect happens. So, if only one person has a harmful intent, both persons may reap the consequences. Absolute trust is essential.

There is also a risk of pulling too much energy (particularly from the male but also the female) in the process and causing mental health, physical health or psychic issues. It’s not enough to want to do something positive, one has to know what one is doing to achieve it. The voltage and amperage is high in sex magic and deserves your respect and caution. If you are going to do ritual magic, make sure you know exactly what you are doing.

Then, there is another issue. If you are unlucky or careless, you can be wide open — too wide open — during the process and pick up a hitchhiker.

Sex by itself without ritual can lead to some incredible psychic results if you are focused on that time and place and person rather than past or future. And, you have built in safeguards that keep it just between the two of you if you don’t try to manipulate the energies.

Using sex magick for positive purposes can be immensely good and beneficial.

I would not personally call that “left hand path” but people seem to have very different definitions of that terminology.

Why would ritual sex magick *not* be a good and sacred thing?? It’s a rite to honor the Hieros Gamos, the sacred marriage of male and female, the Horned God and the Goddess.

And, by the way: Jim Morrison was a god incarnate. Bless his magic mojo soul.

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Add/to Okapi: There is no such thing as a “Wiccar.”
Don’t pretend to have a background in Wicca that you don’t have.

Oh, and that old idea about sex “draining energy” from the male — no, I don’t think so. I mean, it’s like any kind of physical exertion, you put some energy into it. But if you use that energy for magick, then you can gain some positive benefit. And even just using it for the magic of LOVE is positive enough.

The myth of sex “draining energy” comes from tantra, where they have both people sitting up, and they put the woman on top, and she is the active one; while the man is passive and on the bottom. That is a blatant *reversal* of natural gender polarity. Nature made males to be dominant and active and on top during sex. If you do it that way, it should be invigorating to the spirit, not draining at all.

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Blessed Be!

I was once a guest at a ritual in which the Great Rite was performed, but the couple (who were celebrating their marriage) did it in the ritual chamber while everyone else waited outside.

Rev. Neil