Dark Erotic Magic, pt 2

Lust, Devotion & Transgression (continued)

The darker side emerges when this apparatus feeds on abjection. Pornography, in particular, often traffics in a liturgy of degradation. The camera frames bodies not as subjects but as sacrificial animals upon which viewers project their hungers and hatreds. Consumption becomes ritualized: late at night, alone, in specific positions, on familiar sites, with a choreography of clicks and swipes. There is confession (“I shouldn’t, but”), there is penance (the guilt afterward), there is even a perverse kind of consecration (the screen glowing like a votive candle). The magic here is transformative, but frequently in a corrosive direction: repeated exposure reshapes neural pathways, expectations, empathy.

Dark occultism does not place itself above this; it recognizes in it a crude, industrialized parody of mysteries it holds dear. The body-as-altar, the exchange of fluids as spell, the conscious use of arousal to fuel intention—these are techniques found in grimoires as well as on dubious websites. What distinguishes the magical from the merely compulsive is not image or act, but awareness and aim. In a ritual, one knows one is dealing with powers that can maim as well as make. In compulsion, one pretends it’s just a bit of fun.