Andre’s Reviews > The Haunting Fetus: Abortion, Sexuality, and the Spirit World in Taiwan > Status Update

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so dolls shaped like human beings or parts of dead fetuses' bodies are used in fetus demon sorcery.

Two families using geomancy to harm each other's clans. Both hired feng shui masters to help benefit from the fenghsui of their ancestor's graves while simoultaneously using the geomantic forces to harm each other's lineages.

so a sorcerer can only use a fetus demon for 2-4 years because the spirit has a right to be reborn and if he does not release it, the demon will turn on its master. And apparently they can do a lot of harm and are all knowing. And while the practice of fetus demon sorcery is not widespread apparently the belief is/was.

Taiwanese fear in aboriginal sorcery... hm, I did not hear anything about that so far. But it makes sense that something like this exists. And fetus demons are supposed to be particularly powerful because they are in a liminal state in which they are in touch with the secrets of the natural universe in ways that an adult ghost is not.

sorcerers controlling fetus demons by feeding them human blood... I did not expect that.

Gosh, there are so many prohibitions in regard as to when and where to have sex in this tract that you have to wonder when the people in question ever had any sex.

Conservatives adviced young people to inhibit their sexual instincts pointing out their duties with regard to the future of the race.

so while China back then tried to distance itself from yin/yang thought the believes about the effects of the "excessive loss of semen" continued to be a central theme of medical understanding.

Gosh, the Art of the Bedchamber straight up says that sexual desire must be regulated and you should not give in to carnal pleasure and you must think how it will affect your health. Which sounds like something that would inhibit homosexuality.