Title: Sexy Witch Author: LaSara FireFox Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide, Ltd. Publish Date: 2005 Pages: 304 Genres:: Self-Help, Non-Fiction Reviewer: SexHerald Staff

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Loving yourself is a religion that can be difficult to practice sporadically at best. This is one area of life where practice may not make perfect but is likely to make you feel a hell of a lot better. Enter Sexy Witch, 300 and more pages of self-love on crack. FireFox beckons you to claim your power as a woman and not flinch from what societies past and present may have told you is shameful, be it menstruation or aging. On the contrary, bring it into the light and embrace it. Throughout seven chapters, she outlines seven formal and informal rituals of and initiation into becoming a sexy witch. Pussy Power is one of the more subdued chapter titles.

Firefox has a charming way of making the esoteric the every day. Her homework exercises include questions to help women examine their beliefs about gender roles, their own sexuality and view of the world.  She also asks you to temporarily isolate yourself from the noise around you as much as possible to purify your soul of outside damaging influences with a media fast, a me-tox if you will. Both handbook for becoming a witch and self-help manual, LaSara FireFox aims to bring about more peaceful, gentle, loving world one enlightened woman at a time.

Firefox’s advice is both contemporary and timeless as she encourages the reader to love herself with everything from massages to creating altars. There is also a foreword by adult film celebrity and personality Nina Hartley. FireFox encourages cultivating gratitude as a way to a happier life. You’ll also find here a smattering of interesting scientific facts, i.e. the sixth sense can actually be measured scientifically as neurological activity has been observed in the heart area, thus confirming that gut feeling and intuition are far from an abstraction. FireFox also lists women from different eras who broke the rules and in doing so remade them towards a happier life for all female and otherwise. Her other exercises, such as writing your own world creation myth all have the same objective: to identify who you are and start loving it, if you don’t already.

Fear not finding yourself unequipped with drawing utensils during the rituals. Just make sure you have your period so you can make some nice art with your own menstrual blood, one particularly startling ritual the author suggests. If this grosses you out, the whole point of FireFox’s book is to question why you feel that way. On the other hand, if it doesn’t, you’re a hell of a lot more comfortable with your body than this reviewer at present.

FireFox’s message is a beautiful and much-needed one, an exuberant splash into the pool of becoming the person you’ve always been.