Do you like sex? Do you like ghosts? Historian and occult researcher Dr. Paul Koudounaris will give a presentation on the history of erotic hauntings, one of the most common, but under-reported, forms of ghostly encounter. From sexy apparitions to postmortem Lotharios to jealous ghouls, history is replete with such tales, and they continue to the present day. Dr. Koudounaris will discuss the cultural boundaries that separate the living from the dead, with a special emphasis on the way that border is broached via sexualized ghost stories. Learn about erotic poltergeists, incubi and succubi, highly inappropriate uses for human skulls, and much more, in a lecture which promises to be both bizarre and informative. And in a weird way perhaps titillating.
Paul Koudounaris has a PhD in Art History and has traveled to over seventy countries researching the visual culture of mortality. He is the author of three award-winning books about historical displays of death, Empire of Death, Heavenly Bodies, and Memento Mori, and one about feline history, A Cat’s Tale, which was named a Barnes and Noble book of the year.
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