The Sex Magicians
by Robert Anton Wilson
Introduction by Michelle Olley
Afterword by Gregory Arnott
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Josie Welch has a body that would make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window. Her appearance at the Orgasm Research Foundation drives Dr. Roger Prong to seek solace between the thighs of Tarantella, the fantasy catering masseuse who saves his sanity about twice a week. But Prong’s paranoia reaches full bloom when he gets strange phone calls from a subversive diminutive anarchist (readers of Illuminatus! will recognize that character), goes to a drug-infested orgy at the Pussycat Mansion, and feels the magic of the First Church of Scientific llluminism.
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Robert Anton Wilson’s first published novel, an erotic romp stretching from a visit to Hassan i Sabbah’s 12th century Garden of Delights to the Orgasm Research Foundation’s mighty “King Kong” to a party at the fabled playboy’s Chicago mansion – all carefully monitored by the omniscient eye of the Illuminati.
“Adamantly pro-sex in both attitude and behavior, Robert Anton Wilson created an exciting new genre of mystical erotica with this book, his first published novel. The great Guerrilla Ontologist started off his career with a hilarious romp through a Chicago spellbound by sex magic. Wilson cunningly leads the reader into the worlds of conspiracy and magic while keeping the sexual antics turned up to 11.”
– Annie Sprinkle,
Performance Artist and co-author of
Assuming the Ecosexual Position—The Earth as Lover
One of Bob Wilson’s first sexpeditions:
He was just beginning his mission
To show what we know
Is as melty as snow
And Schrödinger’s Cat just a kitten.
– Nick Herbert, author of Quantum Reality,
Harlot Nature, and Physics on All Fours
Cover Back and Front
Here’s the full cover of the print edition designed by amoeba
To try to suss out the nature of this odd and entertaining tale, we were fortunate enough to find two writers who have considerable expertise to bring to the subject. 
Michelle Olley, part of the famed Discordian crew that has done so much to keep RAW’s spirit alive in the UK (and reverberations well beyond!), has written an introduction that focuses on the sex in The Sex Magicians. I’ll let her impressive biography introduce her (see the note after her introduction in the book), but I do want to include a cool photo. Michelle had been recruited to “help reinvent Penthouse UK (a men’s magazine) for the 90’s.” The photo is of Michelle at a dinner with the famed Penthouse kingpin, Bob Guccione.
With a deep dive into the magick of The Sex Magicians, we asked magician, writer and teacher Greggory Arnott to explore the text in an afterword, and bring some understanding of the magical principles in the book into some perspective. Gregory did a magnificent job.
In episode 36 of the Hilaritas Press podcast, Mike Gathers chats with Michelle Olley and Gregory Arnott about The Sex Magicians, Michelle’s new introduction, and Gregory’s new afterword.
Click here: hilaritaspress.com/podcasts/robert-anton-wilsons-the-sex-magicians-episode-36
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