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LaVey: And most heterosexual congregations don’t
mind, because it’s a fact that a heterosexual can accept
homosexuality more readily than a homosexual can accept
heterosexuality. Relating to the existence of the opposite sex
is something that must be in evidence. Women cannot be
denied their function in our Satanic Church. Needless to
add, man-hating women cause us a great lack of, shall we
say, sensual scintillation.
My book The Complete Witch; or What to Do When Vir-
tue Fails is a guide for witches. It doesn’t stress the drawing of
pentacles on the floor. It smashes all the misconceptions that
women have had, not only about witchery, but about their
own sexuality. I think of this book like Simone de Beauvoir’s
The Second Sex. Even if a woman is a man-hater, she can use
her femininity to ruin that man. This book tells her how to
do it. If she wants to enjoy men, this book will open her eyes
to a few things about her power.
Fritscher: Fetishes are important in magic, but what
about sexual fetishes in the Church of Satan?
LaVey: Sexual fetishes we find natural. Everybody has
one. These should be catered to. Sexual deviations are only
negative factors when they present an obstacle to one’s suc-
cess. They present an obstacle when they are carried out of
the ritual chamber, out of the fantasy room into the world
where others will see them disapprovingly.
Fritscher: So homosexuals and sexual fetishists can
belong to a Satanic coven as long as their impulses do not
impede ritual or self-realization.
LaVey: As long as the men pursue their male power, and
the women their female power, and they do not try to apply
their sex power to manipulate others of the same gender.
Self realization, more than the sex act, is the main tenet of
Satanism.
Fritscher: You mean the way Rosemary realized by the
end of Rosemary’s Baby who she was, and accepted her child.

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