Sex Worship (Barnes & Noble Digital Library): Or an Exposition of the Phallic Origins of Religion

This self-published 1898 book argues that sex has played a role in the evolution of religion. The author discusses fertility cults—the birth of the power of sex in religion, nature and its cycles, death and rebirth, and how the modern world fails to see the earlier, sacred role of sex. Sex Worship includes chapters on phallic and feminine emblems, sexual sacrifices, as well as the male and female principle.