Podcasts about wicked grounds

Amazing news! Registration is now open for the FREE Dom/sub Dynamics Virtual Summit! Reserve your free spot here: http://bit.ly/sunnysummit2024  The Rundown 4-day online BDSM conference, free!  5 sessions per day + supplemental class tools & materials April 8-11th 2024 Watch live (no student cameras so you can attend anonymously) -OR- stream recordings of the classes you want to take within 24 hours Some of the educators: Midori,  Luna Matatas, Evie Lupine, TheDutchy, Miriam Green from Wicked Grounds, Princess Rara from Pink Kink Podcast, Marla Rene-Stewart, Justine Cross, Loving BDSM, D/s Living, Pleasure Mechanics & more Some of the sessions: Punishment & Rewards In D/s, Navigating Misconceptions & Embracing Your Brat, Little Space & Age Play Dynamics, Dealing With Drop, Discovering Your Soft & Hard Limits in BDSM, Seducing Your sub & Creating Erotic Tension, Kinky Skills For Switches, Introducing Kink In Your Relationship, Creating Successful Protocols, BDSM Scene Building, Polyamory & BDSM, Kink + Trauma: Using BDSM For Healing, Female Led Relationships - FLR, How To Create A BDSM Contract & More The D/s Summit is FREE for people 18+ (all educational, not visually graphic, and does not encompass adult entertainment) so please feel free to share with friends, in kink groups you belong to, etc: http://bit.ly/sunnysummit2024  See you there! Sunny :) 

What's the future for Lost Spaces podcast? I need your help figuring that out! Please complete the Lost Spaces listener survey before the end of January and I'll be your best friend forever - ⁠http://tinyurl.com/lostspacespodcastsurvey On this week's show I'm starting to question whether I should be getting in to the world of kink or not. And, who is enticing me over to the kinky side? Why, it's podcaster and well-known kinkster Auntie Vice, who tells me all about what drew her to the world of kink, as well as what was so special about her lost space, Wicked Grounds in San Francisco, USA.  Find out more about Auntie Vice by listening to the Fat Girls on Top podcast, following her on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/auntievice) or visiting her website (www.auntievice.com) You can also reach out to me on Facebook (www.facebook.com/lostspacespod) or Instagram (www.instagram.com/lostspacespod) - I'd love to hear from you! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/k-anderson/message

Rachel Ungerer is a local Bay Area queer disabled painter whose artistic journey is making waves. Her unique curation for the international disability community, Diversability, caught the attention of ABC7 News, leading to a featured interview on Disability Pride. At Stanford's social justice writing class, Rachel's guest lecture on art as activism resonated deeply. Her captivating paintings challenge societal perceptions of disabled individuals as burdens, celebrating mutual care and kink as equal facets of life. Rachel's bold voice and unique perspectives attracted an invitation from Extreme Restraints to discuss Kink and Disability on their show, XR University. Her extraordinary artwork is showcased at the sex-positive cafe, Wicked Grounds, in a captivating solo exhibition. www.rachelungerer.com IG: @r_ungerer & @disabled.queer.sexuality www.opulentmobility.com https://www.xruniversity.com/kink-and-disability-with-rachel-plus-maya-woulfe/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nika-cherrelle/support

We're returning the world of Silver Screen Satanism in the days before major film censorship for some historical Hollywood heresies.   SHOW LINKS KSAT: San Antonio man wrongfully convicted in 1991 has charges dismissed in Satanic Panic case Australian Center for the Moving Image: Early Hollywood and the Hays Code Faust (1926) A landscape of nightmares, Roger Ebert (2005) Cultural Studies of Modern Germany: History, Representation, and Nationhood, by Russell A. Berman (1993) Framing Faust: Twentieth-Century Cultural Struggles, by Inez Hedges (2005) The Magician (1926) American Film Institute Catalog: The Magician An Illustrated History of the Horror Film, by Carlos Clarens (1968) American Silent Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Feature Films, 1913-1929, by John T. Soister et al (2012) The Magician, by Somerset Maugham (1908) The Black Cat (1934) Horror In the Movies, by Daniel Cohen (1982) American Film Institute Catalog: The Black Cat Classics Of the Horror Film, by William K Everson (1974) The History of Horror Cinema: The Black Cat, Ian Champion (2016)   GET IN TOUCH WITH BLACK MASS APPEAL Facebook Twitter Instagram Patreon Tabitha Slander's Instagram Discord server   SATANIC BAY AREA Website Facebook Twitter (as @SatanicSF) Instagram Sign up for Satanic Bay Area's newsletter On TikTok as DailyBaphirmations Coffee Hour is the third Thursday of every month from 6 – 8 pm at Wicked Grounds in San Francisco!

When it comes to Satanic aesthetics, you know the drill. But these days, we can't help but notice a lot of Satanic art and fashion is looking downright cute – even adorable. Artist Artetak joins us to discuss this brand of "Soft Satanism."   SHOW LINKS Artetak! Website, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube The Daily Voice: NC Man Vowed To 'Shoot Everybody' At PA Middle School With 'Satan Club': DA, Mac Bullock (2023) Jezebel: Inside the Rainbow Gulag: The Technicolor Rise and Fall of Lisa Frank, Tracie Egan Morrissey (2013) Our Aesthetic Categories: An Interview with Sianne Ngai - The cute, the interesting, and the zany, Adam Jasper and Sianne Ngai (2011) Monstrous/Cute. Notes on the Ambivalent Nature of Cuteness, Maja Brzozowska-Brywczyńska, Adam Mickiewicz University (2007) The Aesthetics and Affects of Cuteness, Diane Negra et al (2017) Lucifer aspired to be a god, not a goat: On Satanic aesthetics, The Satanic Scholar (2017) GQ: Poop, sacrifice and exhortation: How Cult of the Lamb broke the gaming internet, Robert Leedham (2022)   GET IN TOUCH WITH BLACK MASS APPEAL Facebook Twitter Instagram Patreon Tabitha Slander's Instagram Discord server   SATANIC BAY AREA Website Facebook Twitter (as @SatanicSF) Instagram Sign up for Satanic Bay Area's newsletter On TikTok as DailyBaphirmations Coffee Hour is the third Thursday of every month from 6 – 8 pm at Wicked Grounds in San Francisco!

When it comes to Deadly Sins, there's one option you can always count on for putting skin in the game. So why do conventional religions have so many intimate inhibitions about Lust, and what can we do with the baggage we've inherited from them?   SHOW LINKS Salon: "The Samuel Alito's Mom's Satanic Abortion Clinic" is a thing that exists now, Kelly McClure (2023) Cathechism of the Catholic Church, Second Edition The Seven Deadly Sins: Society and Evil, by Stanford M. Lyman (1989) The Book of Watchers (Third Century BCE) The Old Enemy, by Neil Forsyth (1989) Adam, Eve, & the Serpent, by Elaine Pagels (1988) The Devil: A New Biography, by Philip C. Almond (2014) Satanic sexuality: understanding Satanism as a diversity issue for sex and relationship therapists, Eric Sprankle et al. (2021)   GET IN TOUCH WITH BLACK MASS APPEAL Facebook Twitter Instagram Patreon Tabitha Slander's Instagram Discord server   SATANIC BAY AREA Website Facebook Twitter (as @SatanicSF) Instagram Sign up for Satanic Bay Area's newsletter On TikTok as DailyBaphirmations Coffee Hour is the third Thursday of every month from 6 – 8 pm at Wicked Grounds in San Francisco!

We're taking everybody's advice and going to Hell! For as long as people have believed in a fiery underworld, they've spread stories about how to get there from various locations around the world; so when you want to go somewhere just for the Hell of it, where should you set your sites?   SHOW LINKS The Telegraph: Young sacrifice belief in God on altar of Satanism, Gabriella Swerling (2023) The Lineup: Stull Cemetery: A Hellmouth in the Heart of Kansas (2018) Atlas Obscura: Hellam Township (2013) Smithsonian Magazine: Fire in the Hole - Raging in mines from Pennsylvania to China, coal fires threaten towns, poison air and water, and add to global warming, Kevin Krajick (2005) Electrum Magazine: Gehenna: Hell as Metaphor? What and Where was it? (2019) Forward: If You Don't Know the Way to Hell, You Can Find It on a Map, Philologos (2014) National Geographic: Greece's river to the ‘underworld' now lures adventure travelers, Maria Atamatzidou (2022) Oregon State University: Hekla - The Gateway to Hell, Adonara Mucek (2015) Under the Volcano: Revolution in a Sicilian Town, by Lucy Riall (2013)   GET IN TOUCH WITH BLACK MASS APPEAL Facebook Twitter Instagram Patreon Tabitha Slander's Instagram Discord server   SATANIC BAY AREA Website Facebook Twitter (as @SatanicSF) Instagram Sign up for Satanic Bay Area's newsletter On TikTok as DailyBaphirmations Coffee Hour is the third Thursday of every month from 6 – 8 pm at Wicked Grounds in San Francisco!

Of all the books in Lucifer's Library, one is overdue more often than all the others. But in the 50-plus years since the publication of the Satanic Bible, what has the world been saying about it, and how should these perspectives inform our own?   SHOW LINKS A Journey to Hell: My Visit to the Houston Satanic Temple's Art Show, Michael Hardy (2022) Marburg Journal of Religion: Diabolical Authority: Anton LaVey, The Satanic Bible and the Satanist "Tradition," James R. Lewis (2002) Satanism: A Social History, by Massimo Introvigne (2016) Reading and Writing Scripture in New Religious Movements: New Bibles and New Revelations, by Eugene Gallagher (2014) Lucifer Ascending: The Occult in Folklore and Popular Culture, by Bill Ellis (2004) In Pursuit of Satan: The Police and the Occult, by Robert D. Hicks (1991) Speak of the Devil: How The Satanic Temple is Changing the Way We Talk about Religion, by Joseph P. Laycock (2020)   GET IN TOUCH WITH BLACK MASS APPEAL Facebook Twitter Instagram Patreon Tabitha Slander's Instagram Discord server   SATANIC BAY AREA Website Facebook Twitter (as @SatanicSF) Instagram Sign up for Satanic Bay Area's newsletter On TikTok as DailyBaphirmations Coffee Hour is the third Thursday of every month from 6 – 8 pm at Wicked Grounds in San Francisco!

The future is now – and also later, and arguably anytime we want it. With 2023 looming, we're looking ahead and behind at some of our biggest Satanic and personal ambitions, and wondering which of them we'll summon up for ourselves in the new year?   SHOW LINKS WAAYTV: Business Owner Defends Yule Festival   GET IN TOUCH WITH BLACK MASS APPEAL Facebook Twitter Instagram Patreon Tabitha Slander's Instagram Discord server   SATANIC BAY AREA Website Facebook Twitter (as @SatanicSF) Instagram Sign up for Satanic Bay Area's newsletter On TikTok as DailyBaphirmations Coffee Hour is the third Thursday of every month from 6 – 8 pm at Wicked Grounds in San Francisco!

Every Satanist knows that there are really only two magic words in life: Hail Satan. But where does this phrase come from, and why DO we say it so often?   SHOW LINKS WCIA: Satanic Temple adds ‘Serpent of Genesis' to Capitol Rotunda holiday display, Danny Connolly, Cole Henke (2022) Latin for Satanists: How to hail Satan in proper Latin, Nahn Cerwyam (2019) Eccentric Tales: In Verse: The Monk of Cambray, collected by William Barnes Rhodes, George Colman (1812) A Hymn To Satan: & Other Translated Poems, Giosue Carducci (1865) St. Clement's Eve: A Play, Sir Henry Taylor (1862) BFI Film Classics: Rosemary's Baby,  Michael Newton (2020) YouTube: Satanic Mass, Pt. 1, Coven (1969) The Church of Satan I: Volume I, Michael A. Aquino (2013)   GET IN TOUCH WITH BLACK MASS APPEAL Facebook Twitter Instagram Patreon Tabitha Slander's Instagram Discord server   SATANIC BAY AREA Website Facebook Twitter (as @SatanicSF) Instagram Sign up for Satanic Bay Area's newsletter On TikTok as DailyBaphirmations Coffee Hour is the third TUESDAY of every month from 6 – 8 pm at Wicked Grounds in San Francisco!

“It's my time now," Satan declares in the 1997 horror/drama Hollywood hit The Devil's Advocate, starring Al Pacino as the original boss from Hell. Now, at the film's 25th anniversary, has his time passed -– or has this become a truly timeless work?   SHOW LINKS LiveScience: Why Does the Devil Have Horns & Hooves?, Tom Metcalfe (2022) Publisher's Weekly: What I Learned From Bestselling Author Andrew Neiderman, Sari Feldman (2018) The Devil's Advocate, by Andrew Neiderman, Pocket Books (1997) History of Religions: The Devil at Law in the Middle Ages, Karl Shoemaker (2011) Forbes: That Time In The Middle Ages When The Devil Became A Lawyer, Matthew Gabriele (2018) LA Times: Jumping Into the Fire: In ‘Advocate,' Al Pacino takes a walk on the dark side. Luckily, he's no stranger to these mean streets, Jack Matthews (1997) NY Daily News: Eye on evil in 'Devil's Advocate,' Taylor Hackford takes Satan to Court, Denis Hamill (1997) ScreenRant: Charlize Theron Details Exhausting Method Acting On Devil's Advocate, Amy Halloran, (2022) NY Times: Sculpture In a Movie Leads to Suit, Gustave Niebuhur (1997)   GET IN TOUCH WITH BLACK MASS APPEAL Facebook Twitter Instagram Patreon Tabitha Slander's Instagram Discord server   SATANIC BAY AREA Website Facebook Twitter (as @SatanicSF) Instagram Sign up for Satanic Bay Area's newsletter On TikTok as DailyBaphirmations Coffee Hour is the third TUESDAY of every month from 6 – 8 pm at Wicked Grounds in San Francisco!

Pride comes before the fall -- and since it's already November, that means we're already late! But as Modern Satanists, what does pride, in all of its myriad forms, mean to us, and how can we celebrate it most meaningfully?   SHOW LINKS Simone's "Creepy Bay Area" streaming special Awful Announcing: The danger of Kyrie Irving's flat-Eartherism was ignored by the media in 2017, Velodus (2022) Online Etymology Dictionary: "Pride"  Queer Theology: The Sin of Pride, Fr. Shannon Kearns The Conversation: Is pride a vice or a virtue? A psychologist explains, Neil McLatchie (2017) Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Hume's Moral Philosophy, Rachel Cohon (2004) Bustle: This Is Why It's Called Pride, Marissa Higgins (2016) Satanic Bay Area's Feel the Burn Blog: Straightening Out “Straight Pride”, Daniel Walker (2019)   GET IN TOUCH WITH BLACK MASS APPEAL Facebook Twitter Instagram Patreon Tabitha Slander's Instagram Discord server   SATANIC BAY AREA Website Facebook Twitter (as @SatanicSF) Instagram Sign up for Satanic Bay Area's newsletter On TikTok as DailyBaphirmations Coffee Hour is the third TUESDAY of every month from 6 – 8 pm at Wicked Grounds in San Francisco!

For as long as humans have believed in mysticism we've been eager to know what the future holds, but modern religions are always hot to deal fortune telling to the devil. To help us learn more about why everyone is so afraid of making a psychic connection, we're joined by Shiva Honey.   SHOW LINKS Shiva Honey's Serpentinae website and shop, Instagram, and Facebook York Dispatch: No One Wants Satanic Temple Money Cambridge Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Divination, Diana Santo (2019) The Historical Significance of Fortune-Telling, Cody Delistraty (2016) The Devil's Art, by Joseph Phillip Coy (2020) Theological Examination of Necromancy, Ebenezer Tetteh Fiorgbor, Emmanuel Kojo, et al (2017) The Origins of Necromancy or How We Learned to Speak to the Dead, Andrej Kapcár (2015) Moda Chicago: A Visual History of Tarot Cards, Vivian L  Collector's Weekly: Tarot Mythology: The Surprising Origins of the World's Most Misunderstood Cards, Hunter Oatman-Stanford (2014) The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, A. E. Waite (1911)   GET IN TOUCH WITH BLACK MASS APPEAL Facebook Twitter Instagram Patreon Tabitha Slander's Instagram Discord server   SATANIC BAY AREA Website Facebook Twitter (as @SatanicSF) Instagram Sign up for Satanic Bay Area's newsletter On TikTok as DailyBaphirmations Coffee Hour is the third TUESDAY of every month from 6 – 8 pm at Wicked Grounds in San Francisco!

We're created some monsters -- or so they say. Just in time for Halloween, we're going to decrypt the Satanic legend-making over American cryptids, with the help of Karen and Blake from the long-running skeptics' podcast, MonsterTalk.   SHOW LINKS MonsterTalk: website, Twitter, and Facebook The Conversation: The monster festival – a pilgrimage to small town America, Joe Laycock (2018) Skinwalkers at the Pentagon: An Insiders' Account of the Secret Government UFO Program, by James T Lacatski D.Eng., Colm A Kelleher Ph.D., George Knapp (2021) Abominable Science!: Origins of the Yeti, Nessie, and Other Famous Cryptids, by Daniel Loxton (2012) Journal of Mormon History: A Mormon Bigfoot, Matthew Bowman (2007) Western Folklore: "New" Legends: Some Perspectives from Anthropology, Phillips Stevens Jr. (1990) Aztlan Magazine: Tracking the Chupacabra: The Vampire Beast in Fact, Fiction, and Folklore, William Nericcio (2012) What Happens Next: Contemporary Urban Legends & Popular Culture, by Gail de Vos (2012) Ten Disturbing Dogman Sightings of the American Midwest, Aaron Fox (2021) LA Times: At Remote Forest Lake Monstrous Legends Spawn, Jason Song (2001) Jersey Devil: The History of an American Cryptid, Carolyn Cox (2018) New York Times: Ministers Plan Their Own Encounters, Matt Richtell (1997)   GET IN TOUCH WITH BLACK MASS APPEAL Facebook Twitter Instagram Patreon Tabitha Slander's Instagram Discord server   SATANIC BAY AREA Website Facebook Twitter (as @SatanicSF) Instagram Sign up for Satanic Bay Area's newsletter On TikTok as DailyBaphirmations Coffee Hour is the third Thursday of every month from 6 – 8 pm at Wicked Grounds in San Francisco!

Satanic Bay Area has our very own Satanic ‘Chick' Tract celebrating the real history of Halloween, but the actual Jack Chick spent decades hatching fabrications about our favorite holiday. To help us with some of these comic misconceptions, we welcome Satanic artist Jason Lenox back to the show.   SHOW LINKS Lenox Art Emporium Satanic Bay Area's Halloween "Chick" Tract -- Preorder now! NPR: Christian Majority To End Women Write About Comics: Jack Chick's Unhappy Halloween Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s, by Kier-La Janisse, Paul Corupe Snopes: Cat O Nine Tales University at Albany: Origins of Halloween Carnegie Museum of Natural History: Did Druids Perform Human Sacrifice? Snopes: Pins & Needles Vox: The Myth of Poison Candy Learn Religions: Samhain Is Not a God Smothsonian: History of Trick Or Treating   GET IN TOUCH WITH BLACK MASS APPEAL Facebook Twitter Instagram Patreon Tabitha Slander's Instagram Discord server   SATANIC BAY AREA Website Facebook Twitter (as @SatanicSF) Instagram Sign up for Satanic Bay Area's newsletter On TikTok as DailyBaphirmations Coffee Hour is the third Thursday of every month from 6 – 8 pm at Wicked Grounds in San Francisco!

In past episodes we've added such creatures as goats, cats, and everyday snakes to our Mephistophelean menagerie, but today… Here there be dragons. We're making the biggest addition ever – in more ways than one. We explore the history of devilish dragons and why these mythical monsters are so often associated with Satan.   SHOW LINKS Satanic Bay Area: Preorder our Halloween parody tract! San Francisco's best haunt: Terror Vault PopCrush: Mom Slammed Over Satanic Party Follow David's adults-only voice work at his Twitter The Penguin Book of Dragons, Scott G Bruce (2021) The Firedrake In Beowulf, Alan K Brown (1980) (info from Wikipedia) Natural History, Pliny the Elder (77 CE) Book of Beasts, Oxford M.S. Bodley 764, The Bodleian Library  The Bible - New Revised Standard Version, Catholic Edition, Daniel 14 Early Jewish Writings, Bel & the Dragon Beowulf: An Introduction, RW Chambers (1921) The Monsters & the Critics, JRR Tolkien (1936) Dragons and Dragon Lore, Ernest Ingersoll (1928) WorldHistory.biz, St George & the Crusades, Samantha JE Riches (2015) St. George and the Dragon: Introduction, Whatley, Thompson, & Upchurch (2004) YouTube: Dragon Size comparison Beowulf: A New Translation, Maria Dahvana Headley (2020) Dragons: The Modern Infestation, Pamela Wharton Blanpied (1997) Reddit: How to spot a dragon using an illusion spell   GET IN TOUCH WITH BLACK MASS APPEAL Facebook Twitter Instagram Patreon Tabitha Slander's Instagram Discord server   SATANIC BAY AREA Website Facebook Twitter (as @SatanicSF) Instagram Sign up for Satanic Bay Area's newsletter On TikTok as DailyBaphirmations Coffee Hour is the third Thursday of every month from 6 – 8 pm at Wicked Grounds in San Francisco!

On your MARKS, get set, go! We all know those fateful numbers 6-6-6 by heart, but most people's assumptions about what they really mean don't add up. To help us decipher this inscrutable integer, we're joined by Beverly, longtime record-breaking member of our own Mark of the Beast club.   SHOW LINKS Only Sky: After legal threats, Kansas school board repeals ‘Satanism' ban in dress code Revelation 13 Against Heresies, Irenaeus (180 CE) A Commentary Critical & Explanatory of the Entire Bible: Revelation 13, Jamieson, Faussett, and Brown (1876) International Bible Commentary, William Farmer (1998) The Antichrist: A New Biography, Philip Almond (2020) The Late, Great Planet Earth, Hal Lindsey (1970) Naming the Antichrist, Robert Fuller (1995) LA Review of Books: The Desperate Search For the Mark of the Beast, Anna Merlan (2019) The Conversation: No, the COVID Vaccine Is Not the Mark of the Beast, Eric Vanden Eykel, (2021) YouTube: Watch out for 666! YouTube: Kathy Don't Go!   GET IN TOUCH WITH BLACK MASS APPEAL Facebook Twitter Instagram Patreon Tabitha Slander's Instagram Discord server   SATANIC BAY AREA Website Facebook Twitter (as @SatanicSF) Instagram Sign up for Satanic Bay Area's newsletter On TikTok as DailyBaphirmations Coffee Hour is the third Thursday of every month from 6 – 8 pm at Wicked Grounds in San Francisco!

Guest: Lori Sweetman, LGBTQ+ advocate and life coach   Lori Sweetman joins Fat Chicks to talk about working as a K12 teacher, transitioning into an LGBTQ+ youth advocate, coming out as queer after marrying a man and living for others for more than a decade.   Socials and Website IncludeLGBTQ.com (professional site) Lori@IncludeLGBTQ.com (email)   ----more---- Fat Chicks on Top merch www.AuntieVice.com/shop   The Sex Shed sex shop TheSexShed.com   Wicked Grounds online classes, sex/kink toys, and books

For five years here at Black Mass Appeal we've strived to pass around the fruit of knowledge and answer everyone's questions about Satanism, Satanists and non-Satanists alike. But we can't reach everyone, and some people have instead gone looking for wisdom on the wrong places, like Quora and the dearly departed Yahoo Answers. So today we're answering the burning questions that nobody asked us… but probably should have.   SHOW LINKS New Yorker: Farewell, Global Liberal Cannibalistic Pedophile Conspiracy!, Robert Carlock (2022) Ashema Deva's online store   GET IN TOUCH WITH BLACK MASS APPEAL Facebook Twitter Instagram Patreon Tabitha Slander's Instagram Discord server   SATANIC BAY AREA Website Facebook Twitter (as @SatanicSF) Instagram Sign up for Satanic Bay Area's newsletter On TikTok as DailyBaphirmations Coffee Hour is the third Thursday of every month from 6 – 8 pm at Wicked Grounds in San Francisco!

It's said one's own birthday is the highest of Satanic holidays, so we're making a wish and diving into the history of these rites of passage with Satanic writer La Carmina; also, a classic American witch finally gets her day in court, and Satanic Bay Area finds its initiative.   SHOW LINKS Ripley's: Last Salem "witch" pardoned thanks to middle schoolers La Carmina's website, Twitter, and Instagram The Satanic Bible, by Anton LaVey (1969) It is about time: Birthdays as modern rites of temporality, Hizky Shoham (2021) The Strange Origins of American Birthday Celebrations, Joe Pinsker (2021) Birthday Parties: A Study of Developmental Change in American Culture, Janice Klein (1981) Rituals enhance consumption, Kathleen D Vohs (2013) Where Do Zodiac Signs Come From? Here's the True History Behind Your Horoscope, Olivia B. Waxman (2018) How Are Horoscopes Still a Thing?, Linda Rodriguez McRobbie (2016)   GET IN TOUCH WITH BLACK MASS APPEAL Facebook Twitter Instagram Patreon Tabitha Slander's Instagram Discord server   SATANIC BAY AREA Website Facebook Twitter (as @SatanicSF) Instagram Sign up for Satanic Bay Area's newsletter On TikTok as DailyBaphirmations Coffee Hour is the third TUESDAY of every month from 6 – 8 pm at Wicked Grounds in San Francisco!

Guest: Mistress Schari, professional Dominatrix Mistress Shari has gone from stripping her way through graduate school to working as a pro-Domme in the New York area. She has worked as a pro Domme for nearly two decades. Schari joins Fat Chicks to talk about finding her passion as a pro Domme, why she does this work, and what she has learned from years in the field. She chats about working with other women, aging, and loving running her own business. She also points folks in the right direction if they want to pursue this calling.   ----more---- Check out the following:    Study on Sexual Fantasies - please consider filling out the anonymous survey about sexual fantasies for academic research. www.GalenFous.com/PEM/ Looking for great sex toys? Check out TheSexShed.com and use code Rebecca10 for 10 percent off your order.   Finally, check out Wicked Grounds.com!

In 1992, FBI Special Agent Kenneth Lanning published his "Investigator's Guide to Allegations of Ritual Child Abuse." Though many sources today credit Lanning with sinking the Satanic Panic, few people have actually read this conclusions, so today we're getting to the bottom of a national panic -- and to the bottom of a few drinks. CW: We drink and talk about alcohol throughout the episode; if that's not the content for you, we understand!   SHOW LINKS IOL: South African Satanic Church co-founder explains why he turned his back on Satanism and why he now believes in Christ We Believe The Children, by Richard Beck (2015) U.S. Dept. of Justice: "Investigator's Guide to Allegations of Ritual Child Abuse," Kenneth Lanning (1992)   GET IN TOUCH WITH BLACK MASS APPEAL Facebook Twitter Instagram Patreon Tabitha Slander's Instagram Discord server   SATANIC BAY AREA Website Facebook Twitter (as @SatanicSF) Instagram Sign up for Satanic Bay Area's newsletter On TikTok as DailyBaphirmations Coffee Hour is the third TUESDAY of every month from 6 – 8 pm at Wicked Grounds in San Francisco!

Guest: Mir Green, Owner of Wicked Grounds and kink educator   Mir Green joins Fat Chicks on Top to talk about the intersection of kink identities, queerness, and politics. Tune in to find out how they organized the community to keep Starbucks from building in the Leather District in San Francisco, grouwing up queer in a 3-stoplight town in the dessert, the importance of community, and crushing the patriarchy. This episode will leave you wanting to rise up and fight the power!   Socials and Websites WickedGrounds.com ForbiddenTickets.com Wicked Grounds Patreon Blog recommended by Mir We Hunted the Mammoth   ----more---- Please consider participating in the Psychological Dynamics of Sexual Fantasy survey. Dr. Rachael Needle is exploring the psychological dynamics of sexual fantasy. This is an anonymous survey for academic research. Click the link to start: http://galenfous.com/pem

It's play time! Welcome to the Twenty Ninth episode of the Kink Kloset!Continuing on our North American adventures, we find ourselves over in the Bay Area on the West Coast visiting our favourite bundle of joy, Jesbian. Gosh, where do we even start with this episode? From an early age, Jesbian recalls the duality of exploring who she was, and the pressures of growing up in an immigrant household. Coming from a Croatian, Nicaraguan and Native American heritage, the households she was raised in reinforced a structure which praised hard work and strived for each generation to be better than the one before. This left no room to deviate from the path. However, being surrounded in the San Francisco environment, she knew there was a kinkster brewing inside and was fortunate enough to see positive reinforcement of the lifestyle which spoke to her inner self. While the rest of her teen years were tough leading a double life between fetish and family, it was her inner rebel which gave her the courage and conviction to reinforce her independence and set upon a new path to forge her own identity. Setting out on her next adventure of independence, Jesbian was immersed into a world which she had only ever fantasied about. Yet this time, there was no limits to what she could explore and the mischief she could manage. Being surrounded by various forms of polyamory and kink dynamics, Jesbian felt free to embrace the little 6 yo inside which had been yearning to play this whole time.  It is truly special to hear how Jesbian describes her Little as being the best version of herself, where she just wants a gold star and to give everyone else a gold star. She describes that putting her first is the best possible way to dispel all the social norms we don't really need. Winning her first title as International Little Ms Little in 2014, it was important for Jesbian to strongly promote the title as the ABDL kink was seen as such a taboo in the greater leather community. Through spreading joy and education, she has been able to see the shift and the growth of acceptance of the Little and ABDL community across the globe. Furthermore to her community work, Jesbian was successful in being titled Ms California Leather 2017, where it further strengthened her joyful presence amongst the community she adores. For anyone who wishes to explore further resources into the ABDL community, Jesbian recommends the following:Penny Barber - The Age Play and Diaper Fetish Handbook: https://www.amazon.com.au/Age-Play-Diaper-Fetish-Handbook/dp/1257061046Check out FetLife to see if there is a Littles Scouts chapter in your area,Coming to Wicked Grounds in San Francisco where there are safe places for Littles,Keep out for the West Coast Jungle Gym Conference, or listen to the Big Little Podcast: https://www.biglittlepodcast.com/

Nothing says "family friendly" quite like the name Disney, but Disney has always had its dark side. Here to help us with our cell-shaded sins, we have Ryan and James of the Creepy Kingdom podcast network.   SHOW LINKS Creepy Kingdom's website, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram Giving the Devil His Due: Satan In Cinema, by JP Telotte (2021) Hell's Bells on YouTube Goddess of Spring on YouTube  Night On Bald Mountain, Michael Clive, Utah Symphony Walt Disney's Fantasia, by John Culhane (1983) Chernobog and Belobog – The Slavic Gods Who Weren't, Brendan Noble (2020) The Gospel According to Disney, by Mark Pinsky (2004) The Consumption and Destruction of the Female Body in Modern Witch Media, Chankaya Simpson, Guilford College (2022) Overthinking It: Part of Your World, Carolyn Loy (2010) LA Times: Disney Romancing the Devil, Greg Burk (2014) Devil in Disguise: Characterizations of Hades in Children's Media, Morgan E Gray (2013)   ABORTION FUNDS Check out AbortionFunds.org for tons of resources near you -- and if you can, donate! Alabama Cohosh Collaborative Indigenous Women Rising Abortion Fund of Arizona Arkansas Abortion Support Network ACCESS REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE Colorado Doula Project The Brigid Alliance DC Abortion Fund Florida Access Network National Abortion Federation Hotline Chicago Abortion Fund Iowa Abotion Access Fund All-Options Hoosier Abortion Fund Kansas Abortion Fund Kentucky Health Justice Network New Orleans Abortion Fund Safe Abortions For Everyone Maine Baltimore Abortion Fund Jane Fund of Central Massachusetts Reclaim MI WIN Fund South Dakota Access for Every Woman Midwest Access Coalition Missouri Abortion Fund Susan Wicklund Fund Nebraska Abortion Resources Silver State Hope Fund Reproductive Freedom Fund of New Hampshire New Jersey Abortion Access Fund Mariposa Fund New York Abortion Access Fund Carolina Abortion Fund North Dakota Women in Need Abortion Access Fund Women Have Options – Ohio Roe Fund Cascades Abortion Support Collective Western Pennsylvania Fund for Choice Women's Health and Education Fund Abortion Care for Tennessee Lilith Fund Utah Abortion Fund Vermont Access to Reproductive Freedom Blue Ridge Abortion Fund Women In Need Fund of Cedar River Clinics Holler Health Justice Options Fund Chelsea's Fund   GET IN TOUCH WITH BLACK MASS APPEAL Facebook Twitter Instagram Patreon Tabitha Slander's Instagram Discord server   SATANIC BAY AREA Website Facebook Twitter (as @SatanicSF) Instagram Sign up for Satanic Bay Area's newsletter On TikTok as DailyBaphirmations Coffee Hour is the third TUESDAY of every month from 6 – 8 pm at Wicked Grounds in San Francisco!

We're hitting rewind on one of our favorite movies to re-live deliciously. Also, Satanic Bay Area is once again being crafty, and in the news, Bay Area exorcists are confronting their own worse angels. CONTENT WARNING: The news section is a heavy one, dealing with child abuse and child death. If you'd prefer to skip it, the main topic starts 32 minutes into the show.   SHOW LINKS Poltergeists and Paramours (makers of the Black Phillip dress and many other great horror-themed clothes!) News: San Jose Mercury News: 3-year-old girl's grandfather and uncle arrested in connection with her alleged exorcism death The Verge: The Witch director Robert Eggers talks about bringing Puritan fears to a modern world (2016) The New Yorker: Robert Eggers's Historical Visions Go Mainstream (2022) Brutal N' Scary: The VVItch is not a Feminist Movie (2020) Hanover College: The Devil, History, and Studia Humanitatis, a lecture by Frank Luttmer (1999)   GET IN TOUCH WITH BLACK MASS APPEAL Facebook Twitter Instagram Patreon Tabitha Slander's Instagram Discord server   SATANIC BAY AREA Website Facebook Twitter (as @SatanicSF) Instagram Sign up for Satanic Bay Area's newsletter On TikTok as DailyBaphirmations Coffee Hour is the third TUESDAY of every month from 6 – 8 pm at Wicked Grounds in San Francisco!

Guest: Rae Luna, burlesque and go-go dancer   This week we continue with Erotic Performer Month. Rae Luna is a nonbinary burleque and go-go dancer based in San Francisco, CA. They talk about embracing thier body, how to seduce yourself, being Brown and how that influences their performances and so much more! Rae has performed at Twisted Windows, an even created and hosted by previous Fat Chicks guest Shay Tizano, at Bondage-a-go-go in San Francisco, and with Om Nom Nom Nobinary Burlesque.   They also discuss growing up mixed race, not knowing their father's culture, being soaked in the white cool-aid and coming to terms with their identity.   Social Media: _Omoonrae_ on Instagram and Twitter   Upcoming Shows:   July 8th Om Nom Nom Nonbinary Burlesque at Amaro's in San Francisco, CA https://www.facebook.com/OmNomNomBurlesque/   July 22nd No Cover Caberet at The Skylark in San Francisco, CA https://dothebay.com/events/2021/6/18/the-no-cover-cabaret-tickets ----more---- Newsly is a great app which allows you to listen to any site on the internet! Get a free month of premium service with code FC0T. ----more---- Looking for more great podcasts? Check out this month's featured podcast Hello, Wonderful, hosted by Terry Dornak.   nonbinary, fat, fatness, erotic performer, burlesque, go-go dancer, Twisted Windows, Wicked Grounds, Arab, mixed race, Seattle, self-love

Everyone remembers their first sleepover seance in grade school, with the help of the Parker Bros'-owned ‘oracle': the Ouija board. But why are so many people so scared of a party game? We're making contact with the Talking Board Historical Society for more on the old Beelze-Board.   SHOW LINKS Newsweek: Couple Find "Satanic" Objects Talking Board Society website American Quarterly: Spiritualism and Science: Reflections on the First Decade of the Spirit Rappings, R. Laurence Moore (1972) AustinTexas.Gov: Spiritualism In the 19th Century, Katie Keckeisen (2018) American Folklore: An Encyclopedia, by Jan Harold Brunvand (1996) The New Black Magic & the Truth About Ouija, by J Godfrey Raupert (1919) Raising the Devil: Satanism, New Religions, and the Media, by Bill Ellis (2000) The Conversation: How the Ouija Board Got Its Reputation, Joe Laycock (2016) Possessed: The True Story of an Exorcism, by Thomas Allen (2000) Inventor's Digest: Did the Spirits Move Him? (2016)   GET IN TOUCH WITH BLACK MASS APPEAL Facebook Twitter Instagram Patreon Tabitha Slander's Instagram Discord server   SATANIC BAY AREA Website Facebook Twitter (as @SatanicSF) Instagram Sign up for Satanic Bay Area's newsletter On TikTok as DailyBaphirmations Coffee Hour is the third TUESDAY of every month from 6 – 8 pm at Wicked Grounds in San Francisco!

When we see Satanists and Satanism in media, it's always the same story: Black cloaks, human sacrifices, and not a lot of authenticity. Today, we've singled out some of our favorite fictional works and characters that portray our real Satanic values -– even though none of these are actually supposed to be Satanists.   SHOW LINKS SF Gate: "Raves, Satanic Rituals, and a Journey Into a 130-year-old tunnel," Amanda Bartlett Baphy Official on TikTok The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show podcast Star Wars Fandonm: Princess Leia YouTube: Strategically selected Loki scene (Simone did not pick this, but she approves) YouTube: Over the Garden Wall trailer YouTube: It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (1966) YouTube: Rocky trailer (1976) YouTube: The Philosophy of Uncle Iroh YouTube: Demonslayer trailer YouTube: The Untamed trailer YouTube: Wicked on Broadway trailer YouTube: The Vampire Lestat unabridged audio book YouTube: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea clip (1954) YouTube: Discworld's Wyrd Sisters clip GoComics: Calvin & Hobbes GoComics: Garfield YouTube: The Addams Family pilot (1964)   GET IN TOUCH WITH BLACK MASS APPEAL Facebook Twitter Instagram Patreon Tabitha Slander's Instagram Discord server   SATANIC BAY AREA Website Facebook Twitter (as @SatanicSF) Instagram Sign up for Satanic Bay Area's newsletter On TikTok as DailyBaphirmations Coffee Hour is the third TUESDAY of every month from 6 – 8 pm at Wicked Grounds in San Francisco!

In 1974, Dungeons & Dragons rolled into stores all across America. And without knowing it, the game stirred up some real demons in our culture. Because our Patreon backers demanded it, we've got the critical history of demons and devils in D&D, and to help us with these encounters, we're joined by Dekan Wheeler, dungeonmaster and game industry pro.   SHOW LINKS Eldritch Wizardry, by Gary Gygax (1976) Gods, Demigods, & Heroes, by Robert Kuntz & James Ward (1976) AD&D Monster Manual, by Gary Gygax (1977) The Dragon Magazine #28: “The Politics of Hell,” Alexander von Thorn (1979) Inferno, by Geoff Dale (1980) The Dragon Magazine #91: "Eight Devilish Questions," Ed Greenwood (1984) Screenrant: “Dungeons & Dragons Had To Change Names Over Satanism,” Scott Baird (2020) Trollsmyth: The Changing Aesthetics of D&D (2006) Demons & Devils: The Moral Panic Surrounding Dungeons & Dragons, by Austin Wilson (2019) Dangerous Games, by Joe Laycock (2015)   GET IN TOUCH WITH BLACK MASS APPEAL Facebook Twitter Instagram Patreon Tabitha Slander's Instagram Discord server   SATANIC BAY AREA Website Facebook Twitter (as @SatanicSF) Instagram Sign up for Satanic Bay Area's newsletter On TikTok as DailyBaphirmations Coffee Hour is the third TUESDAY of every month from 6 – 8 pm at Wicked Grounds in San Francisco!

Everyone loves a horny devil, and who better than the succubus, the unholy femme fatale of both ancient legend and modern popular culture? But where does this myth come from? Julie Jelinek of the International Vampire Film & Arts Festival joins us as we get to the bottom - or top? - of the question.   SHOW LINKS Only Sky: Lawmakers Accuse Satanist of "Human Sacrifice" International Vampire Film & Arts Festival Etymology Online: Succubus Demon at the Doorstep, Lauren Kinrich Sumerian King List The Encyclopedia of Jewish Myth, Magic & Mysticism, Geoffrey W. Dennis Acts of Thomas Malleus Maleficarum Demonology, King James Kiss of Death, Andrea Kitta Succubus: Cultural Phenomenon Manifesting as Psychopathology, Sandeep Grover et al A History of the Vampire in Popular Culture, Violet Fenn   GET IN TOUCH WITH BLACK MASS APPEAL Facebook Twitter Instagram Patreon Tabitha Slander's Instagram Discord server   SATANIC BAY AREA Website Facebook Twitter (as @SatanicSF) Instagram Sign up for Satanic Bay Area's newsletter On TikTok as DailyBaphirmations Coffee Hour is the third TUESDAY of every month from 6 – 8 pm at Wicked Grounds in San Francisco!

Steve Hill is a Satanist, a comedian, a veteran, an atheist, an appraiser, and if he has his way, a Congressman, and he's here to talk about his Satan 4 Congress campaign.   SHOW LINKS Buzzfeed: These Women Say An Essential Oil MLM Has Been Taken Over By Satan. Yes, Really. Steve Hill's website, Satan 4 Congress Steve Hill's Twitter and Facebook LAist: Meet Steve Hill, The Satanist Running For California Senate (2016) Steve Hill on the Dope Dealers podcast Steve Hill on The Devil You Don't Know podcast   GET IN TOUCH WITH BLACK MASS APPEAL Facebook Twitter Instagram Patreon Tabitha Slander's Instagram Discord server   SATANIC BAY AREA Website Facebook Twitter (as @SatanicSF) Instagram Sign up for Satanic Bay Area's newsletter On TikTok as DailyBaphirmations Coffee Hour is the third Tuesday of every month from 6 – 8 pm at Wicked Grounds in San Francisco!

Welcome (back) to FaustFest! The devil has all the best tunes, so we're borrowing some more of them for our second annual, all-virtual Satanic music festival. You can watch the video, immediately on YouTube at the links below, you can download the audio podcast version of the show in your regular podcast feed, or you can join us on Tuesday evening to watch and chat with everyone on our YouTube livestream!  Watch on YouTube anytime Watch FaustFest on the Black Mass Appeal YouTube channel whenever you want! Listen in your podcast feed An audio version of FaustFest will be available on all podcast platforms. Livestream together with us Watch the show on YouTube and with the Black Mass Appeal hosts and audience! Tuesday, February 23 Starts at 7 PM Pacific / 10 PM Eastern CLICK HERE to join the livestream   PERFORMER LINKS SidneySin Instagram Link Tree Venmo: @Sidney_Sin Ezurate Instagram FFM Facebook YouTube SoundCloud Lust 4 Blood BandCamp SoundCloud Los Chacales Tiernos de Satanas Facebook Instagram Lix Tetrix YouTube Soundcloud PayPal: lixtetrixmusic @gmail.com Red Hoof Instagram SoundCloud Satan Club Instagram Venmo: @botulism_sauce Accidents At Sundown Spotify YouTube LinkTree   GET IN TOUCH WITH BLACK MASS APPEAL Facebook Twitter Instagram Patreon Tabitha Slander's Instagram Discord server   SATANIC BAY AREA Website Facebook Twitter (as @SatanicSF) Instagram Sign up for Satanic Bay Area's newsletter On TikTok as DailyBaphirmations Coffee Hour is the third Thursday of every month from 6 – 8 pm at Wicked Grounds in San Francisco!

We're taking a trip down memory lane – and getting a little turned around on the way. Childhood is tough for everyone, but it's even worse when you do the director's cut. In 1980, Canadian psychiatrist Lawrence Pazder's controversial best-seller Michelle Remembers set the world on fire with fears of Satanic Ritual Abuse. Today, we're going to contact some dark spirits of our own with our freeform Michelle Remembers drinking game – lest we forget. Also, Satanic Bay Area will soon be green with something other than envy, and in the news, rumors of Satanism are damning one of Europe's best musical minds. CONTENT WARNING: Alcohol consumption, references to (fake) abuse of children.   SHOW LINKS Help Black Mass Appeal by writing a "Love Letter" for PodCash's sponsorship program! New York Times: "A ‘High Priestess of Satanic Art'? This Organist Can Only Laugh" Michelle Remembers by Michelle Smith and Lawrence Pazder   GET IN TOUCH WITH BLACK MASS APPEAL Facebook Twitter Instagram Patreon Tabitha Slander's Instagram Discord server   SATANIC BAY AREA Website Facebook Twitter (as @SatanicSF) Instagram Sign up for Satanic Bay Area's newsletter On TikTok as DailyBaphirmations Coffee Hour is the third Thursday of every month from 6 – 8 pm at Wicked Grounds in San Francisco!

Everyone knows Baphomet, the lovable, inspiring, gender-encompassing mascot of Modern Satanism. But where did we get this goat? We goat for broke with our comprehensive history of the world's most popular but mysterious Satanic icon.   SHOW LINKS Help Black Mass Appeal by writing a "Love Letter" for PodCash's sponsorship program! Local Memphis: Damien Echols says police chief's resignation is related to evidence controversy in West Memphis Three case Violet Azimuth: Etsy, Twitter, and Instagram Dee Mendes: RedBubble, Twitter, and Instagram De Re Militari: The First Crusade, a Short Narrative (2013) Europe's Inner Demons: The Demonization of Christians in Medieval Christendom, by Norman Cohn (2001) Accusations Made To The Templars, by Friedrich Nicolai (1782; in German) Historical Monuments, by Francois Raynouard (1813; in French) Mysterium Baphometis Revelatum, by Joseph Von Hammer-Purgstall (1818) Pornographic Archaeology: Medicine, Medievalism, and the Invention of the French Nation, by Zrinka Stahuljak (2012) Transcendental Magic, Eliphas Levi (1855) Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library Blog: Taxil & Baphomet (2009) Contemporary Esotericism: The Strange Case of Ben Kadosh, by Egil Asprem, Kennet Granholm (2014) The Lost Caverns of Tsojconth, by Gary Gygax (1982) The Extraordinary Catalog of Peculiar Inventions   GET IN TOUCH WITH BLACK MASS APPEAL Facebook Twitter Instagram Patreon Tabitha Slander's Instagram Discord server   SATANIC BAY AREA Website Facebook Twitter (as @SatanicSF) Instagram Sign up for Satanic Bay Area's newsletter On TikTok as DailyBaphirmations Coffee Hour is the third Thursday of every month from 6 – 8 pm at Wicked Grounds in San Francisco!

The history of Satanism is bedeviled by misinformation, and in the age of social media, a lie can travel to Hell and back to avoid correction. As hopefully savvy digital consumers, how can we better train ourselves to separate fact from affliction?   SHOW LINKS FaustFest Sign-Ups TST MN: Warmer Than Hell Filter Magazing: Court-Ordered Into AA? You Could Use Sober Faction   Misinformation vs disinformation Misinformation is bad information spread by mistake Disinformation is bad information spread on purpose Bad actors need more people to amplify their message -- they may try to persuade an influencer to spread their disinformation as-is -- or as a “debunking.” Simply repeating a rumor can perpetuate it, add fuel to the fire, and even legitimize it. Imposter content: Using the names, logos of well-known, reputable outlets to steal credibility Weaponized content Content can be used out of context Old content is reshared as new, with new context Why do people fall for disinformation? Because they want to. People like things that confirm what they already believe, and reject information that challenges them.   Critical reading of the news Basic credulity – if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. This goes double for anything to do with money or products you see online. (Do not buy shit from Facebook ads!) Is it realistic? Would someone really say or do what the article is saying? Would you do that thing yourself? Would any reasonable person? Understand how headlines are written – usually by someone else, not the article writer, and therefore doesn't always encapsulate what the article actually says. It's meant to grab your attention – whether for good or bad. Opinion vs news – sometimes editorials look a lot like reporting. Slow down! Articles (and certainly their headlines) are meant to provoke emotion and a knee-jerk response. Ask yourself, why am I being made to feel this way? What reaction does the writer want me to have? What reaction do I actually have, once I have more time to process the information? Who owns what? Consider who really owns the website or publication you're reading. Who wrote the article? Have you heard of them before (do they even exist?), or read their other work? What do their previous stories tell you about them and their point of view? When was it written? This is one of the easiest to miss, especially on social media. Make sure the article isn't out of date – and if there's no date at all, be suspicious.  Who is the target audience? Was this written to appeal to a certain kind of person? Verify with other independent sources. Does the information fit with what you already know, or what you've read elsewhere? If you can only find one article that says something, that's a red flag. (And it doesn't count if all the other sources you find lead back to only the first article!) Read the original. This is especially important when it comes to science writing. News articles try to summarize super-long scientific studies in just a paragraph or two – they could be cherry-picking what the study says, or miss the point entirely. When you can, click through to the original study and check it out – and again, if there are no links to sources… that's a bad sign. What isn't being said? Not citing sources is the big one. But you have to ask questions of what you're reading. Most mainstream news sites at least try to offer a different perspective / counterpoint to the main narrative of their piece. For example, if a politician really said something inflammatory, there would be a reaction from an opposing party.    The wild west of unsourced shit on social media Social media is great for communicating with people you actually know – but be wary of accounts from people you've never heard of. If someone has shared what looks to be original content (i.e., not a link to an article on another publication), check their account to see if they seem legitimate. Who's doing the sharing? Is it a reporter? A politician? Some random person? A celebrity? Just because it's a big account or a famous person doesn't mean they're legit. There are lots of famous dummies out there. When was the account made? Brand-new accounts with no profile / cover pictures or friends / followers might be bots or sock puppet accounts.  What's their location? Are they geographically located close enough to what's said in the post / shown in the photo? There is a private group on Facebook for Satanic Bay Area that is for locals only (for privacy and planning reasons). People will request to join the group, and answer the question of whether they're local as “yes” – but their location on Facebook says otherwise. Or they don't have a location at all. That's when I go to their accounts and look at things like their place of work (maybe it has a location), the Pages they follow (if they like a lot of restaurants in Chicago, maybe that's where they're actually located), and even their photos (if they say they're from San Jose but they're posting pics of snow in their backyard… they ain't in San Jose). Is the photo altered? Even a skillful cropping can change the meaning of an image. Look for signs of Photoshopping. Use Google reverse image search / TinEye to find the pictures elsewhere on the web. Deepfake videos Cross-reference Google Maps / Instagram location tags for visual clues Check things like street signs, their colors, their fonts, etc. Does it match up with what you know of the city's street signs? Look for seasonal cues. Are the leaves the right color for that part of the year? What does the terrain, plants look like for a particular area? Image degradation: if you suspect the photo's not the original, see if there's blurriness, pixelation that indicates it was screenshotted and reshared.   Stop the cycle Don't share a story that might be untrue (duh). If you accidentally do, go ahead and delete it. If you want, maybe make a post discussing how you were fooled – but best not to leave the bad article up. If you see someone else sharing a story you know to be untrue, speak up (but don't be a dick). It is extreeeeeeeeemely difficult to dissuade someone from believing something.  When someone has internalized a belief and made it part of their identity, attacking that belief feels to them like you're attacking them personally. They become defensive and work even harder to justify that belief to themselves. The debunker becomes the bad guy, and any facts you present are written off as coming from biased sources. Instead, try asking questions. Where did you hear this information? Do you know the person who shared it? How did it make you feel when you read it or saw it? Have you ever heard of that happening before? Why do you think it's interesting or believable? Don't publicly humiliate them. Send them a private message or better yet, speak in person. Consider what else is going on in their life. Is there trouble at home or at work? These may be sources of anxiety they're unknowingly trying to soothe with conspiracies as a distraction. If you need to go low- or no-contact with someone, do what is best for yourself. But also consider that conspiracy believers are often socially isolated, and their conspiracy groups give them a sense of community. Perhaps engage on neutral topics – go ahead and comment on Aunt Shirley's cat pictures, but do not engage when she starts talking about the Flat Earth. Encourage them to spend less time online. Just taking a break from social media can loosen the grip it has over them. Spend time with them in person, away from triggers like television. Remind them of the hobbies and pastimes they used to enjoy before becoming entrenched in conspiracy. Set a good example. Sharing real, verifiable news – and mentioning why you know it's true – on social media can expose people to another point of view. But don't target your posts at anyone, or engage in arguments in the comments.  People who like to say they do “research” are more likely to believe an article they find themselves, as opposed to something sent to them. It's a kind of gamification of conspiracy theory. Sources:  The News Literacy Project: Understanding Misinformation and How to Talk to People Who Believe It Business Insider: Misinformation vs. disinformation: What to know about each form of false information, and how to spot them online New York Times: How to Talk to Friends and Family Who Share Conspiracy Theories Slate: How to Talk to QAnon Loved Ones This Thanksgiving  Rolling Stone: It's Not Q. It's You NPR: Illinois Is The First State To Have High Schools Teach News Literacy American Psychological Association: Controlling the spread of misinformation First Draft News Google News Initiative   GET IN TOUCH WITH BLACK MASS APPEAL Facebook Twitter Instagram Patreon Tabitha Slander's Instagram Discord server   SATANIC BAY AREA Website Facebook Twitter (as @SatanicSF) Instagram Sign up for Satanic Bay Area's newsletter On TikTok as DailyBaphirmations Coffee Hour is the third Thursday of every month from 6 – 8 pm at Wicked Grounds in San Francisco!

This week on the Erotic Awakening Podcast, @dananddawn share part 2 of our favorites of 2021! We talk about our favorite BDSM scene, favorite virtual event we attended, favorite tentacle porn and favorite food on boobs! Plus, our favorite meal with a patreon and drive through. Plus more fetishes! Caning, breast worship and breast torture!  -=-=-=-=-=- Find all things Dan & dawn at https://www.eroticawakening.com/ Links to mentioned on show: Wicked Grounds https://wickedgrounds.com/ Holy Fire http://holyfireconference.org/ Anon M/s https://www.anonm-s.com/ Mmm hashtags: #domme #submission  #polyamory #bdsm #fetish #kink #eroticawakening #eroticawakeningpodcast #podcast #relationshipadvice #dananddawn #powerexchange #domsub #rvlifesytle #rvliving #sexuality #bdsmcommunity

A house without Satan is never a home; but once Satan arrives, where are you putting him up? We're discussing the curious conventions of modern Satanic altars with testimonials from our listeners.   SHOW LINKS News: The Guardian, Boy Who Inspired "The Exorcist" Named Online Etymology Online: Altar "Practicing Religion In Private: The Home Altar,” Peter Jan Margry Read all our listener letters -- and see photos and videos! -- about their Satanic altars Don't forget to be on the lookout for our coming Kickstarter for our "Hot Satan" (aka "Le génie du mal" by Guillaume Geefs, 1848) statuette -- launching this spring! Also, our applications for FaustFest 2022 will open on Tuesday, January 11. Check out last year's FaustFest here!   GET IN TOUCH WITH BLACK MASS APPEAL Facebook Twitter Instagram Patreon Tabitha Slander's Instagram Discord server   SATANIC BAY AREA Website Facebook Twitter (as @SatanicSF) Instagram Sign up for Satanic Bay Area's newsletter On TikTok as DailyBaphirmations Coffee Hour is the third Thursday of every month from 6 – 8 pm at Wicked Grounds in San Francisco!

Everyone knows Satan is a fallen angel, but how many of us know what that really means or where the idea comes from? In this season when you might see an angel on every corner, we're joined by some of the Alchemical Actors of the podcast Occult Confessions to help us raise some of our own holiday spirits.   SHOW LINKS News: The State Journal-Register, "Bishop Paprocki: Satanic displays 'should have no place in this Capitol'" Occult Confessions website Jewish Encyclopedia (1906), "Angelology" Genesis 6 The Origin of Satan (1999), by Elaine Pagels The Satan: How God's Executioner Became the Enemy (2006), by Ryan E. Stokes The Book of Watchers (Third Century BCE) The Second Apology of St. Justin Martyr (Second Century CE) Early Christian Doctrines (1958), by J. N. D. Kelly The Life of Adam & Eve (aka The Apocalypse of Moses) (Third Century CE-ish) City of God (426 CE), by Augustine of Hippo   GET IN TOUCH WITH BLACK MASS APPEAL Facebook Twitter Instagram Patreon Tabitha Slander's Instagram Discord server   SATANIC BAY AREA Website Facebook Twitter (as @SatanicSF) Instagram Sign up for Satanic Bay Area's newsletter On TikTok as DailyBaphirmations Coffee Hour is the third Thursday of every month from 6 – 8 pm at Wicked Grounds in San Francisco!

Is The Exorcist a Christmas movie? Well, not quite: Director William Friedkin's possession thriller opened the day AFTER Christmas, December 26, 1973, and has been turning heads ever since. Rachel from the horror podcast Zombie Grrlz joins us again to help muck out the one major seasonal Satanic classic film we've never talked about before.   SHOW LINKS Zombie Grrlz Podcast Washington Post: Boy Freed Of Possession IGN: Interview With Blatty Roman Observer:Interview With Friedkin New York Times: They Wait Hours To Be Shocked Roger Ebert:The Exorcist review   GET IN TOUCH WITH BLACK MASS APPEAL Facebook Twitter Instagram Patreon Tabitha Slander's Instagram Discord server   SATANIC BAY AREA Website Facebook Twitter (as @SatanicSF) Instagram Sign up for Satanic Bay Area's newsletter On TikTok as DailyBaphirmations Coffee Hour is the third TUESDAY of every month from 6 – 8 pm at Wicked Grounds in San Francisco!

In 1891, French popular author JK Huysmans scandalized the public with his novel La-Bas, a sultry and sleazy story surveying sex, shame, and Satanism. What inspired him to delve into such outrageous material -- and why did so many people take him seriously?   SHOW LINKS Satanists convince Delaware County, Pennsylvania school district to alter dress code La-Bas, by Joris K. Huysmans JSTOR Daily: Satanism and Magic in the Age of the Moulin Rouge The New Yorker: What Houellebecq Learned from Huysmans The Paris Review: Divine Ordure Lure of the Sinister: The Unnatural History of Satanism, by Gareth Medway Children of Lucifer: The Origins of Modern Religious Satanism, by Ruben van Luijk Satanic Feminism: Lucifer as the Liberator of Woman in Nineteenth-Century Culture, by Per Faxneld   GET IN TOUCH WITH BLACK MASS APPEAL Facebook Twitter Instagram Patreon Tabitha Slander's Instagram Discord server   SATANIC BAY AREA Website Facebook Twitter (as @SatanicSF) Instagram Sign up for Satanic Bay Area's newsletter On TikTok as DailyBaphirmations Coffee Hour is the third TUESDAY of every month from 6 – 8 pm at Wicked Grounds in San Francisco!

In the mysterious annals of Satanism, you still sometimes hear whispers of England's infamous Hellfire Clubs, where the rich and powerful gathered to worship the devil... or at least, that was the gossip at the time. In reality, the only spirits most of the clubs invoked were the fermented kind. Joining us is Slava of Black Sky Brewery of Denver, Colorado.   SHOW LINKS How Stuff Works, How Ben Franklin Helped Ignite the Jersey Devil Hysteria Black Sky Brewery in Denver, Colorado Royal Museums Greenwich, The Georgian Era Drinking and toasting in Georgian Britain Britain: group identities and individual agency, by Rémy Duthille Norfolk Towne Assembly, I'll Be At My Club Dirty Sexy History, The Rakehell The Hell-Fire Clubs: Sex, Satanism, & Secret Societies, by Evelyn Lord BBC, Digging up the truth about the notorious hellfire clubs   GET IN TOUCH WITH BLACK MASS APPEAL Facebook Twitter Instagram Patreon Tabitha Slander's Instagram Discord server   SATANIC BAY AREA Website Facebook Twitter (as @SatanicSF) Instagram Sign up for Satanic Bay Area's newsletter On TikTok as DailyBaphirmations Coffee Hour is the third TUESDAY of every month from 6 – 8 pm at Wicked Grounds in San Francisco!

It's almost Halloween again, and we're positively panting for some sinful seasonal content. Here to chat with us about the hairy history of Satanic werewolf myths is artist Holly M Crawford, of the Nomadic Werewolf Museum.   SHOW LINKS Holly M Crawford and the Nomadic Werewolf Museum Journal of the Fantastic In the Arts: "Wolves, Witches, and Werewolves: Lycanthropy and Witchcraft from 1423 to 1700," by Jane P Davidson and Bob Canino (1990) The Conversation: The Ancient Origins of Werewolves, by Tanika Koosmen Werewolf: The Images & the Trials, by Ying Tung Lo (Masters Thesis, University of Oulu) Modern Farmer: “Old Time Farm Crime: The Werewolf Farmer of Bedburg,” by Andrew Amelinckx All That's Interesting: “The Werewolf Panic That Swept Europe,” by John Kuroski “The King's Mirror,” by Anonymous (1250) Transcript of the trial of Old Thiess, a Livonian werewolf (1691) JSTOR Daily: “Depressed People Aren't Villains,” by KC Mead-Brewer Feel the Burn: “Satanic Sinema: Satanism In ‘The Wolf Man,'” Daniel Walker (2019) Moonlight: A Queer Werewolf Anthology by Bones McKay   GET IN TOUCH WITH BLACK MASS APPEAL Facebook Twitter Instagram Patreon Tabitha Slander's Instagram Discord server   SATANIC BAY AREA Website Facebook Twitter (as @SatanicSF) Instagram Sign up for Satanic Bay Area's newsletter On TikTok as DailyBaphirmations Coffee Hour is the third TUESDAY of every month from 6 – 8 pm at Wicked Grounds in San Francisco!

When you're done doing the devil's work, where is the payday? More and more Satanists are going into business for themselves these days, so to help make sure they get their devil's dues, we're highlighting some of their volatile ventures. Also, Satanic Bay Area has a reckoning, and in the news, the abortion debate gets a little salty.   SHOW LINKS San Francisco's Terror Vault haunt (aka Immortal Reckoning) News: Satanic Temple Protesters Demand Reproductive Rights In Utah Kickstarter for Jason Lenox's Satanic Coloring Book Cheyenne's Queer Wave Coffee   Satanic Small Businesses We Love Dark Moon Ritual Dark Moon Merchant Satan's Craft Room Dark Art Randy on Twitter Red Sabbath Burlesque on Facebook Unholy Rosaries on Etsy Violet Azimuth on Etsy Gothic Lamb Bad Dahlia Ashema Deva Funishment on Kickstarter Satanic Panic RPG on Kickstarter El Gato Gomez Sleight of Light Photography Hexennacht Scents Baked in Blood Cookies Open the Cellar Door on Etsy The Infernal Farmhouse on Etsy   GET IN TOUCH WITH BLACK MASS APPEAL Facebook Twitter Instagram Patreon Tabitha Slander's Instagram Discord server   SATANIC BAY AREA Website Facebook Twitter (as @SatanicSF) Instagram Sign up for Satanic Bay Area's newsletter On TikTok as DailyBaphirmations Coffee Hour is the third TUESDAY of every month from 6 – 8 pm at Wicked Grounds in San Francisco!

While we're on vacation, Tabitha and Daniel tide you over by doing their BMA-bc's, with the help of the infamous and weird and infamously weird Dictionnaire Infernal. GET IN TOUCH WITH BLACK MASS APPEAL Facebook Twitter Instagram Patreon Tabitha Slander's Instagram Discord server   SATANIC BAY AREA Website Facebook Twitter (as @SatanicSF) Instagram Sign up for Satanic Bay Area's newsletter On TikTok as DailyBaphirmations Coffee Hour is the third TUESDAY of every month from 6 – 8 pm at Wicked Grounds in San Francisco!

We have a bloody mess on our hands explaining people's sacrilegious beliefs about a particular period in history with I Support the Girls CEO Dana Marlowe. Also, Satanic Bay Area says happy birthday, and in the news, San Francisco briefly remembers a Satanic revel best left forgotten.   SHOW LINKS SF Gate: Little Known Satanic Rally Held In 80s I Support The Girls Janie Hampton, Aeon The Taboo of Menstruation Museum of Girls: Jahi Encyclopedia.com: Jeh Witches, Whores, & Sorcerers, by SK Mendoza Forrest Impure Blood, by Madeline Ott Albertus Magnus, Women's Secrets The Devil & the Jews, by Joshua Trachtenberg Semantic Scholar: Medieval Love Potion Recipes and Ingredients Women, Men, and Love Magic in Late Medieval English Pastoral Manuals, by Catherine Rider Engendering Puritan Religious Culture in Old and New England, by Marilyn J. Westerkamp The Vulnerability of Women to Witchcraft Accusations, by Christian Day   GET IN TOUCH WITH BLACK MASS APPEAL Facebook Twitter Instagram Patreon Tabitha Slander's Instagram Discord server   SATANIC BAY AREA Website Facebook Twitter (as @SatanicSF) Instagram Sign up for Satanic Bay Area's newsletter On TikTok as DailyBaphirmations Coffee Hour is the third TUESDAY of every month from 6 – 8 pm at Wicked Grounds in San Francisco!

It's time for the Com-passion of the Anti-christ, as Seattle Satanist Lilith Starr's new book Compassionate Satanism explores the beliefs and practices of Modern Satanists in the 21st century.   SHOW LINKS Snopes: Converse Didn't Replace Logo LilithStarr.com: Compassionate Satanism   GET IN TOUCH WITH BLACK MASS APPEAL Facebook Twitter Instagram Patreon Tabitha Slander's Instagram Discord server   SATANIC BAY AREA Website Facebook Twitter (as @SatanicSF) Instagram Sign up for Satanic Bay Area's newsletter On TikTok as DailyBaphirmations Coffee Hour is the third TUESDAY of every month from 6 – 8 pm at Wicked Grounds in San Francisco!

We're loosening up some family ties and getting to know Satan's heir apparent. The Antichrist is a regular contributor to both American popular culture... and American fundamentalist paranoia fits, but no prophet's book ever actually tells us who the Antichrist is. So, where did this myth come from, and is there anything in it to interest a Modern Satanist? To help us get some anti-answers, we're joined by Professor Robert Fuller.   SHOW LINKS Naming the Antichrist, by Robert Fuller Fodors: Satanic Temple Chef, by La Carmina Bible passages: 2 Thessalonians 1 John Revelation Against Heresies, by Iraneus Christ & Antichrist, by Hippolytus City of God, by Augustine Lucifer: The Devil In the Middle Ages, by Jeffrey Burton Russell The Devil & the Jews, by Joshua Trachtenberg The Guardian: One In Four Think Obama May Be Antichrist   GET IN TOUCH WITH BLACK MASS APPEAL Facebook Twitter Instagram Patreon Tabitha Slander's Instagram Discord server   SATANIC BAY AREA Website Facebook Twitter (as @SatanicSF) Instagram Sign up for Satanic Bay Area's newsletter On TikTok as DailyBaphirmations Coffee Hour is the third TUESDAY of every month from 6 – 8 pm at Wicked Grounds in San Francisco!

We're getting back to basics as we use our 101st episode to review some Satanism 101 -- with the benefit of a few years' extra perspective.   SHOW LINKS New York Post: Demons Haunt Victims By Text The Satan by Ryan E Stokes Satan: A Biography by Henry Ansgar Kelly The Origin of Satan by Elaine Pagels Children of Lucifer by Ruben Van Luijk Satanic Feminism by Par Faxneld The Invention of Satanism by Dyrendal, Lewis, and Petersen Lure of the Sinister by Gareth Medway Satanism: The Feared Religion (non-SS version) by Peter Gilmore Speak of the Devil by Joseph Laycock   GET IN TOUCH WITH BLACK MASS APPEAL Facebook Twitter Instagram Patreon Tabitha Slander's Instagram Discord server   SATANIC BAY AREA Website Facebook Twitter (as @SatanicSF) Instagram Sign up for Satanic Bay Area's newsletter On TikTok as DailyBaphirmations Coffee Hour is the third TUESDAY of every month from 6 – 8 pm at Wicked Grounds in San Francisco!

  Leather community powerhouse Tyesha Best joins Lee on the show to talk about her journey as a strong black woman in America and kink.  From the political act of out loud sexual deviance in the face of gay assimilation to the vulnerability of transformation after abuse, Tyesha pulls no punches as the two of them discuss embracing authenticity and compassion alike. **   Passion And Soul Podcast: iTunes Subscription: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/passion-soul-podcast-by-lee/id840372122 RSS Feed: http://passionandsoul.libsyn.com/rss Past MP3 files: http://passionandsoul.libsyn.com PassionAndSoul Audio Page: http://passionandsoul.com/audio Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/erotic-awakening-podcast/passion-and-soul  Contact Tyesha Best: Fetlife: https://fetlife.com/users/66332  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tyeshabest  Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/tyeoshun  Resources and Information Discussed: ONYX Pearls Southeast – http://onyxpearlssoutheast.com  International Ms. Leather (IMsL) – https://imslbb.org Beat Me in St. Louis – http://beatmeinstl.com Leather Leadership Conference (LLC) – http://www.leatherleadership.org  Goddess Lakshimi – http://passionandsoul.com/audio/079-lakshimi/  International Mr. Leather (IML) – http://www.imrl.com Midori – http://www.fhp-inc.com Catherine Gross – http://foryourlifecoach.com  Cleaveland Leather Awareness Weekend (CLAW) – https://www.clawinfo.org/  Boymeat (Phillip Wolf) – https://fetlife.com/users/1443  Inspirational Post about embracing greatness, by Tyesha – https://www.facebook.com/tyeshabest/posts/10105711312321360  HRC apologizes for censoring undocumented trans activist at Marriage Rights protest –  https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/02/human-rights-campaign-apologizes_n_2994939.html  Staggering number of trans people already killed in 2017 – https://www.hrc.org/resources/violence-against-the-transgender-community-in-2017  Goddess Sadie Hawkins – http://sensuoussovereignties.com  Fair Energetic Exchange (FEE) – http://passionandsoul.com/soul/lincs-keynote/  Kona – http://nubianimp.com Leather Sex rant, by Tyesha – https://www.facebook.com/tyeshabest/posts/10105536394208660  9 Ways That White People Can Do To Support The Fight Against Racism – https://www.buzzfeed.com/ramosaline/fight-racism?utm_term=.xhQ5eKKNJ#.ado4mwwV9  “But I'm Not Racist! Tools for Well Meaning Whites,” by Kathy Obear – https://www.amazon.com/But-Im-NOT-Racist-Well-Meaning-ebook/dp/B01NCWVXEY/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=pass-20  Wicked Grounds, San Francisco – http://www.wickedgrounds.com/  Phoenix B. – https://fetlife.com/users/99999  South Plains Leatherfest – http://www.southplainsleatherfest.com  Sigma Alpha Iota Music Fraternity – https://www.sai-national.org  The Complete leatherboy Handbook, by Vincent Andrews – https://www.amazon.com/Complete-leatherboy-Handbook-Vincent-Andrews/dp/0985900415/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=pass-20 Lee's Upcoming Events/Appearances: http://passionandsoul.com/appearances/ Lee Harrington Contact Information: http://www.PassionAndSoul.com http://www.FetLife.com/passionandsoul http://twitter.com/#!/PassionAndSoul https://www.facebook.com/lee.harringon https://www.facebook.com/passionandsoul Photos by John Crooms and Tyesha Best