Sexual rituals fall into two categories: culture-created, and natural behaviour, the human animal having developed sex rituals from evolutionary instincts...

satanic ritual abuse involving Smith. The allegations, which arose afterward throughout much of the United States, involved reports of physical and sexual abuse...

A ritual is a sequence of activities involving gestures, words, actions, or revered objects. Rituals may be prescribed by the traditions of a community...

Sacred Ritual of Magical Love.) Later that year, she also published La Lumière du sexe (The Light of Sex), a mystic treatise and guide to sexual ritual that...

Jacob Dalton, ritualized sexual yoga (along with the sexual elements of the tantric initiation ritual, like the consumption of sexual fluids) first appears...

Tantric sex or sexual yoga refers to a range of practices in Hindu and Buddhist tantra that utilize sexual activity in a ritual or yogic context. Tantric...

Saskatchewan, in 1992, where an allegation of day care sexual abuse hysteria escalated into claims of satanic ritual abuse. In 2007, a jury at Dublin County Coroners...

ways by different spiritual communities. A common form of the ritual uses repeated sexual stimulation (but not to physical orgasm) to place the individual...

worship of a deity, and ritual purity is a state of ritual cleanliness. Ritual purification may also apply to objects and places. Ritual uncleanliness is not...

follows a detective searching for a lost boy, abducted for use in a sexual ritual. The cities of the title mimic and parody real places, and Burroughs...

trafficking of children. Sexual slavery has taken various forms throughout history, including single-owner bondage and ritual servitude linked to religious...

Nishekam is the ritual associated with first sexual intercourse among Hindus. The veracity of this ritual is yet to be determined. In popular practice...

Sexual intercourse (also coitus or copulation) is a sexual activity typically involving the insertion and thrusting of the male penis inside the female...

large stone dildo, a ritual also used to confirm the virginity of the bride. There are many areas through which a person can be sexually stimulated, other...

The great rite is a Wiccan ritual involving symbolic sexual intercourse with the purpose of drawing energy from the powerful connection between a male...

regulation, and public display of the sexual aspect of kissing was discouraged. Kissing also had a role in rituals. The act of kissing may have unintentionally...

term for sexual intercourse within Tantra (Tantric sex), or alternatively for the sexual fluids generated or the couple participating in the ritual. It is...

of being ritually impure. It is achieved by first removing physical impurities (for example, urine) from the body, and then removing ritual impurity through...

in the sources were misunderstandings of either non-remunerated ritual sex or non-sexual religious ceremonies, or possibly even invented as rhetorical devices...

of nonduality. [I]n the tantric sexual ritual of maithuna, the sensation of bliss (ānanda) at the heart of the sexual act is seen as the power of the...

Ritual servitude is a practice in Ghana, Togo, and Benin where traditional religious shrines (popularly called fetish shrines in Ghana) take human beings...

ceremony of ritual purification known in some places as kusasa fumbi (lit. 'brushing off the dust') is performed where girls have sexual intercourse following...

counts of sexual assault. He was the only person convicted. ... Early reports of the case suggested the alleged abuse was part of a satanic ritual, but after...

The purpose of the ritual was to establish the consummation of the marriage, either by actually witnessing the couple's first sexual intercourse, or far...

A wet dream, sex dream, or sleep orgasm, is a spontaneous occurrence of sexual arousal during sleep that includes ejaculation (nocturnal emission) and...

emerged that whoever can finish off their sexual act will receive blessings from Nyai Ontrowulan.” The ritual is not seen anywhere else in Indonesia or...

A blood ritual is any ritual that involves the intentional release of blood. Some blood rituals involve two or more parties cutting themselves or each...

king) or theogamy (marriage between gods) occurred literally, or that a sexual ritual consecration of the monarch with a priestess in sacred prostitution...

Additionally, in the 1990s the Bloody Mary ritual was represented pop culture and used as a tool to discuss racial and sexual violence and gender oppression. There...

The Oak Hill satanic ritual abuse trial occurred in Oak Hill, Austin, Texas, in 1991 when Fran Keller and her husband Dan, proprietors of a small day care...