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Employing a unique blend of feminism and magick, this refreshing guide to female self-empowerment helps women acknowledge the beauty, strength, and sexiness within themselves. Utterly honest and captivating, LaSara FireFox banishes the damaging misconceptions and shame often associated with female sexuality and sheds light on what it truly means to be a “Sexy Witch.”

Each of the seven lessons-covering issues of body image, menstruation, genital exploration, self-acceptance, mentors, and gender-include fun facts, illuminating quotes, and exercises for nurturing the body and spirit. The second half of the book is devoted to rituals-to be practiced alone or with others-that celebrate one's power as a woman, a sexual being, and a Witch.

”LaSara Firefox is a dazzling inspiration and firestarter to everyone who encounters her.”
- Susie Bright, author of Full Exposure

“LaSara Firefox is a genius! You couldn't ask for a better guide to take you on this emboldening adventure.  Accessible and engaging whether or not you consider yourself a 'witch,' Sexy Witch is a fabulous book full of serious fun.”
- Ariel Gore, author of The Hip Mama Survival Guide

Second-generation Witch and ordained Priestess, LaSara FireFox (California) has been writing about sexuality and spirituality for over a decade. She was a columnist for NewWitch magazine and has appeared on Playboy TV's Sexcetera and Canada's SexTV. FireFox is also a graduate of the acclaimed San Francisco Sex Information human sexuality intensive.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #519106 in Books
• Published on: 2005-09-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 336 pages

From the Publisher
LaSara Firefox is a dazzling inspiration and firestarter to everyone who encounters her. -Susie Bright, author of Full Exposure

LaSara Firefox is a genius! You couldn't ask for a better guide to take you on this emboldening adventure. and engaging whether or not you consider yourself a witch, Sexy Witch is a fabulous book full of serious fun. -Ariel Gore, author of The Hip Mama Survival Guide, Atlas of the Human Heart and Whatever, Mom!

All acts of love and pleasure will be your rituals, too, once you get turned on to your own erotic and spiritual power with LaSara's Sexy Witch as your guide. -Carol Queen, .author, Real Live Nude Girl: Chronicles of Sex-Positive Culture

As a serious spiritual pragmatist, I am extremely impressed by this volume's detailed command of what works-what really works-when it comes to the deep core of spiritually turned-on women's sexuality. The best teacher is truth, and LaSara FireFox is one helluva Sexy Witch. -Jordan Gruber, Founder & CEO, Enlightenment.Com

Wake up and smell the pussy! Sexy Witch is so much more than your typical book of love spells. It's the antidote to that pervasive cultural brainwashing that tries to turn us all into quiet, pretty, scentless Barbie dolls. People say that sex, religion, and politics are the three things you shouldn't discuss in polite company--well, fuck that! As Firefox shows, they are all incredibly important and intimately related, and need to get talked about. I wish every woman in the world would read this book and more importantly, DO this book. Sexy Witch isn't meant to be theory sitting on a shelf. It's a tool for transformation. -Jennifer Hunter, author of 21st Century Wicca and Rites of Pleasure

I have known LaSara FireFox pretty much all her life-she was born and grew up on the land in the large Hippie homesteading community where I also lived for many years. In fact, she has been my favorite niece, and I her favorite uncle, over three decades. And I can assure you that LaSara has always been a Sexy Witch! I cannot imagine anyone more dedicated to her Path, her family, her children, her calling, and the greater causes of social justice, feminism, and environmental stewardship. She has served as Priestess and President of the Pagan church I founded, as well as President of the communal Ranch. LaSara writes out of a lifelong commitment of deepest integrity, and in Sexy Witch, she lays it all out in unsparing frankness and personal vulnerability. She is your longed-for sister, lover, and confidante girlfriend-and she really knows what shes talking about! LaSara offers you authentic magick to transform your life into one of empowered radiance and self-assured confidence, as she cuts to the heart of the deepest woundings, shames, and insecurities of all women with the laser scalpel of her insight, experience, and wisdom. This book will become your treasured companion on your journey towards full realization of your glorious sexiness! -Oberon Zell-Ravenheart, author of Grimoire for the Apprentice Wizard

In the mid 1980s I helped conduct a ritual with an insightful teenager Lasara FireFox, already known for rattling the cages of prudery and convention, monotheism, cynicism and self doubt. the publication of Sexy Witch she continues to both envision and further a new/ancient paradigm of wholeness, empowerment, expression and balance. my quarter century of mentoring with the Earthen Spirituality Project, Ive seen that how we perceive and experience our selves shapes how we approach and effect everything and everyone around us. are so much more than thinkers, managers or victims, we are sublimely wild beings called to reawaken and heal this convoluted world... beginning with the vital reinhabitation of our native Earth, our intrinsic responsibilities, our sacred sentient bodies and essential Gaian bliss. is the role of the Seeker or Witch, after all, to embrace both the work and the rewards. Lasaras potent stories, rituals and practices women of all ages (and men as well!) are offered an opportunity to reclaim that which was always and truly ours: our magickal sexuality, our hope and power. -Jesse Wolf Hardin, author of Gaia Eros: Reconnecting To The Magic & Spirit Of Nature

A 21st Century toolkit for today's warrior witch! LaSara Firefox's Sexy Witch initiates readers into the multi-faceted mysteries of magick, mind and ritual. From the sacred to the profane, from the spiritual to the physical, a must-read for all modern witchy women. -Richard Metzger, The Disinformation Company Ltd.

This witty and smart, well-researched gem of a book has the power to transform the feminist movement at the radical roots - womens bodies and their sexuality. any woman who wants to understand, enhance, reclaim or heal her sexuality, this book is a must. to liberate your sisters as well as the men and women who love them. -Anodea Judith, Ph.D., author of Wheels of Life and Eastern Body, Western Mind.

A radical and subversive text for transformation and empowerment. The practices in this book have the potential for deep healing and complete awakening. A must read for all who wish to change the world. -Noah Levine, author of Dharma Punx

Sexy Witch awakens the inner spiritual healer by cultivating the intuitive goddess within all women. In the true spirit of sensual and sexual liberation, LaSara teaches you how to conjure powerful inherent magic through fun, juicy, and provocative rituals. Sexy Witch offers a brilliant searchlight along this mysterious and mystical road of self-transformation and self-discovery. This is groundbreaking and visionary ritual magic for rebuilding womens self-esteem and for nurturing the sacred within. Thank you, LaSara, for touching my soul with your vibrant, empowering and visionary words of wisdom. -Wendy-O Matik, author of Redefining Our Relationships: Guidelines for Responsible Open Relationships

The scared practical feminine in Sexy Witch is spellbinding. This no nonsense funny hip book educates us in the finer arts of sex and witchcraft. -Sophia, author of Fortune Telling with Playing Cards and Fortune in a Coffee Cup.

A call to sexual, magickal and personal initiation sure to transform the reader-male, female or otherwise. Clear, creative, fun and empowering! I'll never look at my witch sisters the same way again. Thank you LaSara. -Christopher Penczak, author of Gay Witchcraft, The Outer Temple of Witchcraft and Sons of the Goddess

Sexy Witch is so many things wrapped into one fantastic book! Its a manual of magick, a manifesto for the self, a revealing mirror held up to an image obsessed society and a tool for positive transformation. Its filled with insights into history, culture, gender, psychology, ritual and the nature of feminine power! - Josh Wetzel, author of The Paradigmal Pirate

This incredible Sexy Witch, LaSara W. Firefox, is a modern-day Emma Goldman, Dr. Susan Block and Flo Kennedy rolled into one. Her writings are sunshine in a dark era of repression and theocracy. The book Sexy Witch is a reminder of the beauty of sexuality and the humanity that is possible when people are not programmed by anti-freedom forces. I hope everyone in the nation has an opportunity to read it. -Rev. Bookburn, RadioVolta.org

LaSara FireFox is a cutting-edge Witch, who encourages us to experience life directly and totally, with every ounce of mind, body and spirit. Sexy Witch makes magick come alive! -Charles Gatewood, family photographer of the sexual underground. Books: Photography for Perverts, Badlands, True Blood, Forbidden Photographs.

About the Author
LaSara Firefox is a writer, ritualist, sex-positive activist and educator, and a designer/facilitator of a wide variety of interactive, exploration-based workshops.

Firefox is a family-traditions Witch and a second
generation ordained Pagan Priestess. She has been writing about sexuality and spirituality for over a decade. Her workshops, which take place anywhere from Pagan gatherings to universities, to community centers, to private living rooms, heavily involve these subjects.

Firefox  has been featured on Sony Pictures
Television’s “Life and Style,” Playboy TV’s “Sexcetera, and the Canadian program “SexTV.” A discerning and playful writer, LaSara has contributed to Penthouse, newWitch, and Gauntlet magazines. She is also a regular sex advice columnist in the Bullhorn Rag. Sexy Witch is her loud and proud first book.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
part one

chapter one

Your Body Is a Temple

š Daily Practice: Little Rituals Everywhere, page 20.

Your Body Is a Sacred Space

Your body is a sacred space. Maybe you've heard this sentiment before. Even if you have, chances are you have never quite believed it. But here it is: your body is the dwelling place of everything that makes you who you are. Your body is home to the amazing physiological and evolutionary alchemical magick that has created you, wholly unique and individual. Written in ancient code, our DNA carries secrets still undiscovered. Your body is a living ark, holding ancient stories encoded in your very cells.

More than merely a home to your heart and soul, your body is your heart and soul. And, your body is-in a profound way-your mind. The body and mind are not two things, separate and divisible, but one thing. The mind is a process, not an object. It is the amazing, synchronous magick of nerves, tissues, synapses, hormones, minerals, and molecules working in concert. Memory, desire, choice, and action are all born of the miraculous dance that is every cell in your body doing exactly what it is meant to do.

Alchemy: A magickal process of transformation that can change the composition of elements.

Systemic: Pertaining to a whole system. In this case, pertaining to your body as a system.

A Magickal Thought: If you can change your mind, you can change anything.

Guided Visualization: A technique that is used to great effect in counseling, sports, motivational speaking, and even medicine. Guided visualization is also a basic tool for ritual and magick.

Creating change in your body can create instantaneous change throughout the dynamic, living system that is your body/mind/ spirit. Your entire being-your history, your potential, and your amazing ability to overcome adversity and create revolutions of evolution-may well be encapsulated in your very cells.

And, changing the way you think may be the most effective way to create transformation immediately and effortlessly. Remember, thought is an adaptive physiological process replete with systemic feedback. It may be easier than you would think to create a new pattern to the flow.

Our bodies are the vehicles by which we manifest our Will on earth, and they are even more than that. Our bodies are the point of interface where the individual meets up with the rest of creation. In this chapter we will create ways to honor and sanctify this amazing, dynamic vessel that is our most unique and valuable temple.

Magickal Act: Visiting the Temple

This is a guided visualization. If you are not yet familiar with guided visualization, the exercise may take some getting used to. Or it may come naturally to you. Either way, as a Witch it is important to hone your skills of visualization, inner vision, creation, and exploration. The ability to journey inside yourself is a wonderful skill to have, and honing the ability to visualize is one of the most important things you can do to become effective in magick, and even in daily life.

During a guided visualization, you may see a series of images, or you may have the visualization run in your mind like a story line or dream, as one continuous flow. Cultivate nonattachment to how your visualization will present itself. Allow images to morph, flow, and change. If you find your mind blank for a moment, allow that blank spot in your journey to exist, and then to pass. Relax into the exercise, and allow yourself to just stay present with the process.

As with any exercise, the more you work on visualization, the more easily it will happen for you. If you feel less than satisfied with the results of a visualization the first time you try it, perform the exercise again. You could also record your voice reading the script, and use that recording.

What You Will Need

Time. Visualization: five minutes; writing and art: twenty minutes, or as long as you want. Space where you will be uninterrupted. Your favorite art supplies. Journal. Writing implements. Pillow (optional). Blanket (optional). Incense (optional). Essential oils (optional). Fresh flowers (optional).

How-To

For this and other visualization exercises, you will need a space that is peaceful, quiet, and private. Create a time and space that's just for you, where you will be uninterrupted and able to focus. In this guided visualization, you will visit your temple. After this journey you will paint, draw, collage, sculpt, or otherwise craft an artifact representing your temple, or an image of it. Next you will journal about the visualization, and about creating the artifact, if you choose to. Prepare all the supplies you will need before you begin the exercise. Have paper, writing implements, and art supplies ready. As much as possible, stay in the visualization while you get it down on paper.

Some people prefer to perform guided visualizations lying down, while others prefer sitting up. Choose a position that allows you to relax, and at the same time keeps you alert. If you relax too much, you may lose focus or even drift off to sleep, not that that would be the worst thing. Sometimes it works out fine to sleep during the visualization, and then write down dream images. Staying...(Continues)

Customer Reviews

Outstanding Accomplishment
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.

A Pagan Exploration of Feminist Themes
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.

Defeat body-phobia!
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!