Sex, Drugs and Magick 1987

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“It is a psychoanalytical truism that many people turn to the desensitizing drugs, such as morphine or heroin, in order to flee from their sexual problems, that is, to turn themselves off erotically.”

I am professor of philosophy at La Trobe University in Melbourne, having taught over the past 25 years in North America at the University of Alberta (2000-2017), the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (1996-2001), and Queen’s University (1992-1996). I was born in Broken Hill in New South Wales and grew up there and in Perth in Western Australia. I have a B.A. with first class honours in philosophy from the University of Western Australia, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, where I was a Fulbright Scholar from late 1987 until early 1992. My philosophical interests are various, and on this site you can find representative work in the areas I’ve published i