Online Talk · Sex With Ghosts: The Deeply Weird World of Spectrophilia with Catherine Auman
7pm ET (NYC time)
Monday, September 8, 2025
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Ticketholders: A Zoom invite is sent out two hours before the event to the email used at checkout. Please check your spam folder and if not received, email hello@morbidanayomy.org. A temporary streaming link will be emailed after the event concludes.
Despite the disdainful glances from mainstream science, sex with ghosts is a hotter-than-hot topic in popular culture. From bestselling books and classic movies to long-running television series, the public’s appetite for ghostly sex appears to be both trending and flourishing. In fact, people have been reporting sexual experiences with ghosts and other unearthly beings since the beginning of recorded history. There exists a sizeable archive of people reporting encounters with disembodied lovers, as well as a significant subculture of those who believe sex with ghosts (or the otherwise disembodied) is a desired phenomenon to be summoned and relished. Western occultism includes many practices and spells for summoning disembodied spirits to have sex with. Having intercourse with ghosts and spirits is considered a higher level of occult power than sex with human mortals.
Mainstream reductionist science, of course, isn’t having any of it. In a 2022 study, 800 people were interviewed about their experiences with the incubus phenomena, and their results showed that one third to one half of the research participants reported incubus experiences monthly or even weekly. Despite the evidence, the academy takes a dim view of spectrophilia, the scientific term for the erotic love of ghosts, and the subject may reach the Boggle Threshold, a term coined by Renée Haynes to denote an occurrence that stretches the incredulity of even the most open-minded.
In this lecture, we will review the fascinating historical and contemporary stories of human-spectral sexual encounters, and ponder the question: Do we have to believe? And what about you? Have you had sex with a ghost?
Catherine Auman, LMFT (Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist) is a researcher on the topics of mystical and transpersonal sex. She is currently working on her dissertation for a PhD at CIIS. Catherine is the bestselling author of 12 books on the subjects of personal growth, spirituality, and tantra.
image: Henry Fuseli, The Nightmare, 1781
7pm ET (NYC time)
Monday, September 8, 2025
PLEASE NOTE: A link to a recording of this talk will be sent out to ticket holders after its conclusion. It will also be archived for our Patreon members. Become a Member HERE.
Ticketholders: A Zoom invite is sent out two hours before the event to the email used at checkout. Please check your spam folder and if not received, email hello@morbidanayomy.org. A temporary streaming link will be emailed after the event concludes.
Despite the disdainful glances from mainstream science, sex with ghosts is a hotter-than-hot topic in popular culture. From bestselling books and classic movies to long-running television series, the public’s appetite for ghostly sex appears to be both trending and flourishing. In fact, people have been reporting sexual experiences with ghosts and other unearthly beings since the beginning of recorded history. There exists a sizeable archive of people reporting encounters with disembodied lovers, as well as a significant subculture of those who believe sex with ghosts (or the otherwise disembodied) is a desired phenomenon to be summoned and relished. Western occultism includes many practices and spells for summoning disembodied spirits to have sex with. Having intercourse with ghosts and spirits is considered a higher level of occult power than sex with human mortals.
Mainstream reductionist science, of course, isn’t having any of it. In a 2022 study, 800 people were interviewed about their experiences with the incubus phenomena, and their results showed that one third to one half of the research participants reported incubus experiences monthly or even weekly. Despite the evidence, the academy takes a dim view of spectrophilia, the scientific term for the erotic love of ghosts, and the subject may reach the Boggle Threshold, a term coined by Renée Haynes to denote an occurrence that stretches the incredulity of even the most open-minded.
In this lecture, we will review the fascinating historical and contemporary stories of human-spectral sexual encounters, and ponder the question: Do we have to believe? And what about you? Have you had sex with a ghost?
Catherine Auman, LMFT (Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist) is a researcher on the topics of mystical and transpersonal sex. She is currently working on her dissertation for a PhD at CIIS. Catherine is the bestselling author of 12 books on the subjects of personal growth, spirituality, and tantra.
image: Henry Fuseli, The Nightmare, 1781
7pm ET (NYC time)
Monday, September 8, 2025
PLEASE NOTE: A link to a recording of this talk will be sent out to ticket holders after its conclusion. It will also be archived for our Patreon members. Become a Member HERE.
Ticketholders: A Zoom invite is sent out two hours before the event to the email used at checkout. Please check your spam folder and if not received, email hello@morbidanayomy.org. A temporary streaming link will be emailed after the event concludes.
Despite the disdainful glances from mainstream science, sex with ghosts is a hotter-than-hot topic in popular culture. From bestselling books and classic movies to long-running television series, the public’s appetite for ghostly sex appears to be both trending and flourishing. In fact, people have been reporting sexual experiences with ghosts and other unearthly beings since the beginning of recorded history. There exists a sizeable archive of people reporting encounters with disembodied lovers, as well as a significant subculture of those who believe sex with ghosts (or the otherwise disembodied) is a desired phenomenon to be summoned and relished. Western occultism includes many practices and spells for summoning disembodied spirits to have sex with. Having intercourse with ghosts and spirits is considered a higher level of occult power than sex with human mortals.
Mainstream reductionist science, of course, isn’t having any of it. In a 2022 study, 800 people were interviewed about their experiences with the incubus phenomena, and their results showed that one third to one half of the research participants reported incubus experiences monthly or even weekly. Despite the evidence, the academy takes a dim view of spectrophilia, the scientific term for the erotic love of ghosts, and the subject may reach the Boggle Threshold, a term coined by Renée Haynes to denote an occurrence that stretches the incredulity of even the most open-minded.
In this lecture, we will review the fascinating historical and contemporary stories of human-spectral sexual encounters, and ponder the question: Do we have to believe? And what about you? Have you had sex with a ghost?
Catherine Auman, LMFT (Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist) is a researcher on the topics of mystical and transpersonal sex. She is currently working on her dissertation for a PhD at CIIS. Catherine is the bestselling author of 12 books on the subjects of personal growth, spirituality, and tantra.
image: Henry Fuseli, The Nightmare, 1781