By Lawrence Lanoff · The Naked Press

The Psychological Clitorectomy

Female Sexuality, Demythologized

Religion did this. Fear of female sexuality did this. It is real, it is old, and it is still running in rooms you'd never suspect — including the ones that call themselves liberated.

The Psychological Clitorectomy names the exact mechanism: the sequence of blame, shame, guilt, and exclusion installed in a woman's body long before she was old enough to question it. You'll see where the install actually comes from — evolutionary trust, tribal belonging, an all-seeing invisible authority built to police one body — why it lands on women specifically, and how the identical belief survives inside "spiritual" and "tantric" language wearing nicer words.

This isn't a softer myth built to replace the old one. It's the trick, shown plainly, so it stops working on you — in whatever costume it wears next: religious, cultural, or dressed up as your own inner voice.

What was never actually yours to lose in the first place is still right here, waiting to be claimed.

What's inside

• Chapter 1 — I Am Nobody, and Here's the Trick. Why seeing the mechanism, once, means it stops working on you for good.Not above you. Not ahead of you. Just someone who's been looking at the trick a long time.
• Chapter 2 — The Psychological Clitorectomy. No blade required. Just belief — and the absurdity check that breaks it on its face.The clitoris has roughly eight thousand nerve endings and no function but pleasure.
• Chapter 3 — The Four Leverage Points. Blame, shame, guilt, exclusion — the sequence every control system runs, in order.Belief is: be the lie. That's what it is.
• Chapter 5 — Hell Is a Metaphor for You. The good/bad square nobody built for themselves, and why the "dirty" side of it was never based in fact.Warm, wet, fiery, sensual, dark, alive — the call to life mapped as the path to hell.
• Chapter 10 — Who Owns Your Genitals? Taking back the one thing every myth in this book was built to hold.
• Chapter 11 — Own Your Orgasm, Own Your Life. What actually changes when the belief drops and the energy underneath it is finally available again.
• Chapter 16 — What's Left When the Mythology Comes Off. The plain fact every myth was built to bury.

Illustrated, 18 plates

Every chapter opens on an original illustrated plate — not decoration, a second language for what the words are naming.

About the author

Lawrence Lanoff has spent thirty years stripping the mythology off of sex so regular people can actually have it. He was introduced to Tantra at eleven, directed eleven feature films for companies like Showtime, Paramount, and Playboy Entertainment Group, worked alongside Betty Dodson's organization, co-authored material on male sexuality with Carlin Ross, and wrote A Course in Freedom in 2007. Neil Strauss called him "a new-age Ben Kingsley" in The Truth. He is not repackaging mid-century material with the serial numbers filed off. This book is decades of practice, teaching, and hard-fought observation, aimed at one specific, very old mechanism.

Once you see the shape once, you start seeing it everywhere — the same way you can't un-see that Santa Claus was never real. — Lawrence