Despite agreeing with the author on multiple things, it is still not entirely clear to me how a Satanist differs from an atheist with a hedonistic worldview (slash Nietzsche fanatic). And what is even more unclear is how people who consider themselves to be communists can simultaneously be followers of a church that literally preaches such “Ayn Randian” things as “everything for the strong, nothing for the weak” or “all people are evil and selfish by nature (whatever it means)”. However, while the first half of the book seemed like common sense, the other one was filled with annoying ridicules, which did not make the reading any more enjoyable.

LaVey often contradicts himself: he said that all sexual practices that a person is drawn to, including homosexuality, are ok, but a few paragraphs later he says that patients in a mental hospital masturbate because they don’t have a partner of the opposite sex?? Overall, the book is literally riddled with, in my humble opinion, too much praise for the damn sex. If I need to have a view on leisure of an insatiably horny teenager in order to be part of the Church of Satan, I would rather be that hypocrite it curses