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Sex & the Paranormal: Human Sexual Encounters with the Supernatural

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I'm a total believer and I have have lived with paranormal events for years, In my case, they are wonderful and very much wanted. So this book was not exactly what I expected.
The book, although written by a paranormal researcher , is written from the skeptical point of view.He puts forth logical and natural explanations for the topics covered in this book such as alien abduction and ghost rape.I think most people tend to take a skeptical view of the paranormal, so they would probably like that approach.Even if you are a true believer like me, you might find the accounts illustrated in the book interesting.

This is a really interesting book, but beware that it is written by a debunker, not someone actually interested in exploring the paranormal. The main focus of the book is to debunk and discredit the existence of the extraordinary, and doesn't really even open itself to any possibilities that cannot be explained away. The author comes from a scientific rather than a religous perspective, and that, at least is encouraging. However, the author uses science as a broad brush to sweep away any credible claim to the extaordinary side of life, and in this, I think, the author may have ended up performing a disservice to a subject that is left almost entirely unexplored.

Unlike the previous reviewer, I am a skeptical pagan, so found this book to be well written, well researched, and facinating. If you enjoy a well written, though academicaly minded view of the intersection of sexuality and the occult, you will love this book!