sodomised or not...
You could not really say that call Aleister Crowley was a gay activist. In fact he was notoriously heterosexual, so he was neither gay or active. In his story "Not the Life and Adventures of Sir Roger Bloxam" Crowley tells of his first experiences of having sex with other men. New Years Eve 1896 and 1897 was the first time Crowley experieced a cock up his hairy arse. Military Officers in the British Army at the time had a ritual called "The Military Order of the Temple" and Crowley managed to get himself invited along. It is clear that Aleister Crowley took the passive role. At a time when the British Ruling Classes were sending the likes of Oscar Wilde to prison for buggery. This is what Aleister Crowley had to say...
I shall fight openly for that which no living Englishman dare defend, even in secret - sodomy. At school I was taught to admire Plato and Aristotle who recomended sodomy to youth. I am not so rebellious as to oppose their dictum and in truth their seems no better way to avoid the contamination of women and the morose pleasure of Solitary vice.
Crowley argued that his experienced of being sodomised made him a better philosopher, as it raised his consciuosness allowing him to understand the universe from both sides.
I recently held a competition on my website to mark the 60th anniversary of his death on the 1st. of December. I contacted every organisation and magazine in the Uk that could be descibed as "sexually libereated", gay bi straight, fetish, you name it I contacted them all. I was looking for a bit of publicity. Do you know how many had the bollox, not one, not even a fucking mention. It seems even 60 years after his death, the sexually liberated, you know the ones that put themselves accross as the experts, are still afraid of what he had to say.
I live in Hastings, where Aleister Crowley died in in 1947. He had connections to the town going back to his school days. I have been doing a bit of research, on my inheritance. On a visit to the local tourist information center, I asked about Aleister Crowley. "Never heard of him", was the educated response, but them the folk who work there are employed by the same Council that would not give permission in 1947 for his funeral to take place.
Many will simply dismiss him as a satanist and drug addict, he was neither, so that is more a statement about their ignorance rather than a true reflection of Mr. Crowley. He was not perfect, put he was probably one of the greatest philosopher of all times. I rate his in the same league as Plato and Aristotle, and from what I have read, and been told about him, so probably did he.
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