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Sexy Witch

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This is one empowering book! While it may seem this book is for women only, as a man I found it informative and very practical. Some of the contents are specifically for women, including exercises that are guaranteed to both shock and delight readers. A quick look into the library of LaSara Firefox reveals that this is her first full blown book. I will definitely be looking out for more from this author. Sexy Witch is one of the most daring, revealing, and inspiring books I have ever read. The fact that a book like this can be published proves that free speech is still a reality! Although the book does have some roughness, I give it 5 stars for what a special and unique accomplishment it is. I doubt there is any book in existence that pushes the envelope like this one. I found myself laughing out loud, and crying at some of the startling historical information. A copy of Sexy Witch on your coffee table is guaranteed to strike up some interesting conversations with your guests. Based on its contents and graphic exercises I would not be surprised to see this book banned. Sexy Witch has the potential to empower anyone who reads it. I especially like the "media fast" exercise. We all need to do this one, for our health and sanity.

After neglecting my spiritual side for many years, I found it difficult to sort through the multitude of "witchcraft" books in the search for something genuine. I had seen Sexy Witch several times over the years, and was always curious, so I picked it up. I'm glad that I did, because it is exactly what I've been looking for in a guide to discovering my own spiritual sense.

This book may not be everyone's cup of tea, but perhaps it would help to understand some of the more "out there" activities suggested. Many of the exercises seem to derive from things I have seen and done in feminist workshops on improving body image and connecting with women's spirituality. Some are reminiscent of workshops from the women's rights movement, when women examined their bodies closely to get over the intense shame and stigma associated with certain areas of the female anatomy. Because I am familiar with such explorations, and have even done some of them in the past, I did not find it shocking. Sometimes challenging, but it all made sense to me. For someone who is uncomfortable with the word "Feminist" or who is deeply affected by the social constructs this book aims to push aside, some chapters may seem too radical.

Personally, I love a pagan book that is unabashedly woman-centric without being full of fluffy bunnies, "love spells," and cliche praises to goddesses of the Greek/Roman pantheon. This guide is flexible enough to allow great freedom of expression in ritual. Even color and direction associations are open to your own interpretation, which is wonderful for witches who do not connect with common Wiccan-inspired practices. This book is all about learning to love, honor, respect, and fully own every part of yourself, which is something most women desperately need help with in our body-hating, consumerist, patriarchal society.

This is the best pagan book I have ever had the pleasure of reading. Five stars, and two thumbs up.

I wish there were options for negative stars to assign this severely misrepresented book.

The publisher and author have in my opinion done a dis-service to female sexuality and women in general just by the juvenile language used to refer to the female body throughout. There is NOTHING sacred, sexy, nor powerful in this pathetic tome, other than its power to reduce the Craft to a joke.

Please, find some way to read just ONE chapter from this book before deciding for yourself. DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME OR MONEY.

Good reviews and total misrepresentation are the only thing selling this joke, and they must be paid for because not one person whom I have shared this book with does anything but say "It would be funny if it were a joke" and then turn serious and say "Oh, just let the fundies get a look at this ridiculous farce and see how much fuel it adds to their fires!"

Buy this book if you want to:
1. Dress as a man for a week
2. Bodypaint yourself menstrual blood and consume your vaginal secretions
3. Hear your sacred parts referred to in all instances as you would expect a 13 year old boy in a gym locker to refer to them.
4. Believe it or not, it goes DOWNHILL from here!

If you want to truly deepen your sexuality and bring forth the true spirit of the Femenine Divine, LOOK ELSEWHERE.

Following the path laid out in this book leads you to something between a punk rocker trying to be gross and someone in a padded room painting the walls with feces.

As a special note to any non-pagan fundies reading up on this, let me assure you this twisted tripe is the exception rather than the rule. (Sort of like when some out-there fundies were busy burning people at the stake as a way of life when your core religion states "thou shalt not kill" and preaches forgiveness). This is by NO means a book to be taken seriously, and is clearly a poorly contrived attempt to market the unacceptable and ridiculous through total misrepresentation of its contents. It is unfit for kindling in a sacred fire.

Just when you thought it was safe to go back to into the bookstore, Llewellyn Publications stoops to a new low by abandoning their "put out anything and see what sells" mentality for the tried and true "sex sells" marketing strategy. This book would actually be funny if it were a joke, but even though written with a childlike "devil may care" style and attitude, it is perhaps the most dangerous and destructive book ever written on the subject of Witchcraft.
I received this book several months ago as an advance promotional copy, and after glancing it over and reading the numerous blurbs from the myriad of both well-known and obscure authors; I made the Cardinal mistake of judging this book by its cover. My first impression was that it was going to be a cute and sexy entry into the annals of pagan publishing. Boy was I wrong! To begin with, it is probably one of the most badly written books I have ever read. Ms Firefoxe's abilities to communicate clearly and enjoyably with the written word are juvenile at best. Her intent was clearly to communicate sexual awareness and openness free from societal constraints, but the end result is a book that mocks and oftentimes makes a joke out of the unrestrained sexuality she is trying to promote.
Lets take a close look at an early chapter in Firefoxe's book entitled Pussy Power! If you were to follow her instruction in this chapter to the letter, you would wind-up lying spread-eagle on your bed using a mirror to scry into your pussy (which now has freshly dyed pubic hair and a new name), surrounded by drawings you made of your vagina in different "moods", while reading love poems too it. I tried to imagine what would happen if I were to put myself in this situation and my husband were to unexpectedly walk into our bedroom... He would probably have me committed or serve me with divorce papers upon seeing me lying on our bed with a clown face painted on my crotch, singing a love song to it, and then, exclaiming "look honey! I'm practicing Witchcraft with Miss. Boo-Boo"! As I stated earlier, if this book were a joke it would be funny. But in reality it's plain and simply sad. Firefox even goes as far as to suggest that women perform vaginal exams on themselves with Gynecological implements. I'm no expert, but this seems like an irresponsibly haphazard and potentially dangerous suggestion for anyone who doesn't know what they're doing.

Firefox would have been better off releasing this book as a primer for the aspiring porn-star rather than tying her strange brand of sexuality to her lame and uninspiring methods for ritual and magick. And speaking of ritual and magick, by the time she finally gets around to approaching these matters in any depth, the reader is subjected to Firefoxe's infantile pre-101 version of Wicca-Lite. Firefoxe's descriptions of how to perform her solitary and group sex-rituals are oftentimes so vague and devoid of substance, that it left me wondering if she had ever actually performed them herself and wasn't simply making them up as she went along. The only real magick I could find in this book was the magick of Firefoxe's deluded watered down magickal mentality. Firefox rants-and-raves throughout her book for women to throw off the sexual dogma of society and the media, and to free themselves from the chains of sexual marketing and supermodel mentality. She then OK's the cover for her book, which unashamedly displays the epitome of a slim, busty, supermodel porn star-Witch. Shame on you Firefox! She talks-the-talk, but doesn't walk-the-walk!

Earlier in my review I stated that Sexy Witch was perhaps the most dangerous and destructive book ever written on the subject of Witchcraft. Why? Imagine a non-pagan/Wiccan interested in the possibility of pursuing our religion reading this book in search of more information...they would probably run away from paganism kicking and screaming! And what about spiritual society and serious religious scholars? Don't pagans and Wiccan's already have a hard enough time being taken seriously without this kind of superficial crap being presented to the public? Even worse; imagine a newbie Witch getting their hands on this book and using it as a basis for their spirituality and religion... When its all said and done, Ms. Firefox proves that she is nothing more than a pornographic Doctor Frankenstein running around creating monsters that she cannot control and holds no responsibility for.
Shame on Llewellyn for caring more about $ than their readers and publishing this nonsense. Shame on Firefox for writing it, and shame on the pagan authors who offered-up blurbs to help promote it. You all lost BIG points in the respectability and credability departments with this reviewer.

0 Stars for writing skills and credibility. Minus-110 Stars for the horrors that this book is capable of unleashing.

After reviewing Amazon's policy for writing reviews, I am not surprised to see that my initial review was yanked due to 'foul language'. Imagine that...I list in quotation marks several of the author's "lovely" names for vaginas, and my review is yanked. So get a clue about the gutter language used throughout this book.

There is nothing 'sexy' in this book. This book should not even have the word "Witch" in its title. This book is more about alternative sexual practices than anything to do with the Craft. We are talking alternative with a capital "A". Write love songs and love poetry to your vagina, dye your pubes, taste your vaginal secretions, play with your menstrual blood and do it all using the most foul names that you can think of to call your vagina. This is just a few of the 'lovely' rituals and exercises listed in this book.

And can anyone explain to me how dressing up as a man right down to 'packing' (as it is called by the author);which consists of fake male parts attached to your under-wear, will assist me in my quest for body acceptance and female sexuality? Please....

This book has set the Craft, feminism, and body acceptance back somewhere in the middle ages. I shudder to think that anyone would ever believe that this book is any kind of representation of witches. Thanks FireFox...Pagan elders have spent decades trying to put the dampers on the stereotyping of witches as sexual deviants, only to have you publish your twisted take on female sexuality, and put it out to the public as part of the Craft.

to...How to be a joke to your Coven!

I have read many books on Wicca, paganism, and witchcraft, and this book causes me to question the integrity of Llewellyn as a publisher-let alone the seriousness of LaSara as an author. Why did Llewellyn publish this book? And further more, why give the book the title of 'Sexy Witch'? The only reason for this title that I can see, is because of a 'sex sells' mentality. How can anyone read this book with any kind of seriousness to the subject matter when the forewords are written by porn stars. That should have been my first clue. I personally did not purchase the book; I received it as a gift. I feel very sorry for anyone who wastes hard earned money on such garbage.

This book was a major disappointment and a travisty. In my opinion it does not empower women's sexuality or their self-esteem with regards to their bodies...it degrades them. Period.

There are some, however, very few redeeming facets within the pages. I agree with her attempt to instill into women self-confidence and self-love. However, I do NOT agree with many of her methods.

I was extremely unimpressed with the first two chapters. The writing style is atrocious at best. Chapter three, titled `Pussy Power', left me reeling, angry, and fearful of the damage path that is possible from this tornado of destruction. How can any person, who is NOT a medical doctor, suggest that a women use a gynecological examination instrument on themselves? It completely floors me that a publisher or editor allowed this information to be printed. This exercise of can cause physical damage to the female anatomy. It also opens the publisher and author to possible lawsuits. Chapter four wasn't much better. The question that she discusses is "Why should I pet the Kitty?", and she is not talking about the feline that resides in your home. This is the type of juvenile language that LaSara uses to describe a women's anatomy that further tells this reviewer that even she is not taking her own material seriously.

In reading the last half to the book, the rituals, I am once again unimpressed. I found some of the rituals to be repulsive, particularly ritual #3. I can't even imagine what my coven mates would think if I turned to light the Mother candle on our altar stating that "I invoke Pussy Pride". I would be a joke in their eyes, as LaSara and Sexy Witch is a joke in mine.

I truly feel that my disgust with this particular author is her juvenile word use, and writing style. She definitely needs to find a new editor.

I have to agree with a previous review by Helen Le'Blanc, not only am I disillusioned by the author, LaSara Foxfire, and the publisher, Llewellyn, I am extremely disillusioned and disappointed by the other pagan authors who have endorsed such idiocy. I for one will not purchase any further books from a publisher who promotes such irresponsibility and from the authors themselves who agree with such heinously written material.

The main redeeming factor of this new book by LaSara Foxfire and Llewellyn Publishing is one that is extremely helpful on cold winter nights. I plan to use my copy of this poorly written farce as kindling for my fireplace.

This book has gotten some mixed press since it came out-people seem to either love it or hate it. The people who hate it seem to have completely missed the point of the book. They either get freaked out by the frank use of euphemisms for female anatomy, or they run screaming from the idea of *gasp* getting to know the most nether regions of the female body, and all the various things it does. Additionally, uber-witches get terrified that *gasp* somebody might think witches have sex, and that sex can be a part of witchcraft!This is completely symptomatic of the body-PHOBIC mindset that "Sexy Witch" sets out to reverse.

In this book I found a wealth of exercises determined to shatter the negative tunnel vision most people in America (and in many other places) have about our bodies. The author challenges us to venture into the most terrifying aspects of the female physical form, the parts that we're told are "dirty" and "bad", and become comfortable with them. We're encouraged to touch, to look, and to otherwise become familiar with our bodies in every crevice. And this is a *good* thing. Firefox has the right idea-rather than skirting around the fear we have of our bodies with pretty flowers and mincing, femmy steps, she meets it head-on fearlessly, showing the reader that there's nothing to be afraid of, and that we stand to gain much in the way of confidence and health by getting over ingrained hangups. She challenges gender stereotypes, even to the point of including a decent section on conscious crossdressing as a way to break out of one's preconceived notions.

She gives plenty of material for both solitary and group work; the latter is particularly nice as it offers the reader the chance to spread body-positive thoughts. And while some may complain that the magical aspects of the book are too watered-down, keep in mind that the material is aimed not just at experienced pagans, but any woman with body issues who could use some help in getting over them.

I can only wish that there was such a thing for men out there; while body issues in women are well-documented, body issues in men are often ignored. If you're a guy having trouble with your image, there won't really be much here for you to work with, though it may be worthwhile to read just to get an idea of some of the issues that woman face, and how Firefox recommends dealing with them.

This is a brilliant work that deserves its controversy-it highlights body-fear, and for those brave enough to face it, Sexy Witch offers a multitude of methods for getting over it, already!

I found this book a few months ago as I scanned the shelves of my local bookstore. The title and cover caught my interest and I decided to give the book a whirl.

I am happy I did, this book did something no amount of diets and praise from my family gave me. It made me love myself and shatter every negative image I have of how I look. Because of this book, I looked at myself in a completely new light.

Through the creative and sometimes embarrassing exercises, I found my inner beauty as well as my outer beauty.

A book I must say may push the envelope for some people. However, I found this book fun and funny. It also was very informative and helpful. It made me take a deeper look myself and not just at face value but really look at every crevice of myself. Sexy Witch made me touch, feel and taste myself to show me that I am beautiful.

I may not the model type image that the media has plastered on their magazines. However, it made me realize I am beautiful.

I love how this book uses art. It is through art that you begin a strong and important relationship with yourself and your sexuality.

This book may not be for all but if you keep an open mind and just dive in, you will find empowerment and in time, you will see a transformation of how you see yourself.

I believe this book should be in every pagan/wiccan's library, it will have a permanent place in mine. I gave a few copies of Sexy witch as a gift, my friends loved it, and they too see a difference in how they view themselves and beauty.

Look past the negative reviews and try this book.

This book will let you find and embrace the Sexy Witch in you.

LaSara Firefox, <strong>Sexy Witch</strong> (Llewellyn Books, 2005)

It took me somewhere north of five years to read <em>Sexy Witch</em>. Why it took me so long (I don't know the exact duration, thanks to a hard drive crash in June 2007 that borked my spreadsheet; everything I was reading on June 17, 2007 has that as a starting date ever since, but I'm almost certain I started it in January 2006) is a long and terrible story that involves moving house twice, mislabeled boxes, the purchase of an ebook reader, and all kinds of other things, and is probably really boring to anyone who didn't live through it. So I'll just say that the first five chapters of my reading this book involved me owning four different copies of it. Which should tell you something. (Needless to say, every time I finally scored another copy at Half Price Books, the previous one would turn up within a week...)

The basic idea here is a simple one, and mirrors that of many books of the Llewellyn stripe over the last ~40 years or thereabouts; there's as much psychology to be found here as there is magic (I've often wondered, though never more than idly, which way that influence flowed more strongly, and how much--especially in Jung), and the general aim of the book is empowerment. As you might be able to tell from the title, this book is sex-focused.

(And okay, I get the note about the cover model just being a representation, but it's a representation that works pretty well. [clears throat] What was I saying?)

I get the feeling that in most cases, Firefox is preaching to the choir here, but those uncomfortable with their bodies will probably be grateful for the gentle, gradual way Firefox gets to the more physical stages of the process (I couldn't help but thinking about Kathy Bates' immortal mirror scene in <em>Fried Green Tomatoes</em>...). Sex and power have long been coiled up together, and many of our cultural taboos regarding sex seem rigged to prevent the rank and file from having either; Firefox aims to shatter those taboos on a personal level. It's a great idea, and I hope it works.

On the other hand, also as with many Llewellyn titles I've read over the years, there's scads of repetition. Which is not at all a reason not to pick it up, but be prepared to skim about a quarter of the book, since you will have already read it earlier. This is especially true of the rituals section, which occupies that last ~1/3 of the book.

Certainly for the repressed pagan/heathen/what-have-you, and I'd recommend it to those of a less New Age-y stripe as well who feel dissatisfied with the current quasi-Victorian state of moral standards; there's a great deal to like here. *** ½

Yo he leído la traducción en español "Se una bruja Sensual", soy de la Ciudad de México y mi opinión en verdad me parece un libro muy interesante, lleno de energía positiva con la finalidad de canalizarla a nuestro centro como mujeres encontrando ese poder que tanto hemos olvidado por situaciones externas, es un empuje a darnos cuenta de que existimos y somos una obra de arte, echando una mirada a nuestro interior para encontrar el extásis y razón de nuestra existencia! Encontré este libro justo cuando terminaba un Taller de Sexualidad y con esto refuerzo lo que es algo así como un sexto sentido que te impulsa a dejar a un lado los miedos y los paradigmas establecidos por ser lo que uno quiere ser!!

Edith Carbajal