Libido Dominandi: Sexual Liberation and Political Control Second Edition, Hardback – At 4:30 pm on March 30, 2002, Israeli military forces took over Palestinian TV stations when they occupied Ramallah in the West Bank,  immediately shutting them down. What followed was a little more unusual. Shortly after occupying the Al-Watan TV station, the Israeli forces began broadcasting pornography over its transmitter.

Thus begins a lecture about sexual liberation as a form of political control that I have given in Tehran, Tallinn, Prague, Zurich, Washington, DC, Nairobi, and Buenos Aires. When I arrived in Warsaw to give the talk at that city’s cathedral under the auspices of the Catholic Church, all of the major newspapers claimed there would be riots in Wroclaw, where I was scheduled to give the same talk the next day, if the Church didn’t withdraw sponsorship of the book tour announcing the Polish edition of Libido Dominandi. Because the Church did not back down, we defeated gay marriage in Poland.

The story of the Israelis broadcasting pornography over Palestinian TV stations is not in the first edition of Libido Dominandi because it occurred four years after its publication, proving after the fact that my thesis was correct. Sexual liberation, by which I mean everything from pornography to abortion to gay marriage to transgenderism, is the most sophisticated form of social control in human history, and the march of events since the publication of the first edition continues to substantiate my thesis.

To give a recent example, Solomon Friedman, the rabbi who owns Pornhub, explained that becoming the world’s largest distributer of pornography was “an opportunity that I and my partners could not pass up” because it offered among other things “fingerprinting images” and “age estimation.” He forgot to mention the ability to harvest data from everyone stupid enough to log on to his portal because that would have given his game away, proving the point of my book. Sexual liberation is a form of political control.

The second edition of Libido Dominandi: Sexual Liberation and Political Control, containing 300 pages of new material, is now available at fidelitypress.org. Why is the second edition necessary? Because it deals with the Internet in a way that I could not have done in the 1990s or in the first years of this century. If you ever wondered why you or someone you know doesn’t have a life, pornography may be the answer. Pornography is the social disease that has turned a whole generation into sex addicted recluses who can’t get married and can’t form the families that would make them productive members of society. That’s the bad news. The good news is that Libido Dominandi is the cure for that disease.

“You’re E. Michael Jones, aren’t you?” said one young man as I pulled up to the local supermarket on my bicycle. After I pleaded guilty as charged, he said, “I stopped watching porn because of you.”

For more than 20 years now, I have received unsolicited testimonies from people who have been liberated from pornography simply by understanding that its purpose is to turn you into a docile sex robot who can be controlled by the manipulation of your passions. No matter how crazy and counter-intuitive the claim that sexual liberation was a form of control sounded when I first made it, it has been proven true by the course of events, which showed, as St. Augustine said, “A man has as many masters as he has vices.”

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Reviews:

"The definitive history of the sexual revolution"

"a brilliant tour de force of history and interpretation. Libido Dominandi alerts Catholics to powerful enemies of the Church who have harnessed the Enlightenment idea of sexual liberation to the manipulative power of the modern media in order to gain political force. ... this book is a monumental and compelling account of the program to dismantle the Judeo-Christian culture ... a Herculean task in terms of research and documentation ... This book sounds a warning: Until Catholics stop responding to the seductive voice of the dominant culture and instead resist its covert ways, they will continue to lose their unity and their civic and moral freedom."

Rosemary Hugo Fielding, Our Sunday Visitor

"Jones combines masterful storytelling with trenchant analysis ... an excellent analysis of the history of the sexual revolution, showing how society has suffered from its effects and pointing the way to authentic liberation and social reform."

Thomas J. Nash, Lay Witness

"presently the only serious book that reflects an understanding that, in order for a ruling system, in this modern era, to enforce conformity and obedience, it must have developed a technology of control and manipulation that seeks to dominate human passion at the expense of human reason. ... massive tour de force ... Revisionist History at its best."

M. Raphael Johnson, Ph.D., Barnes Review

"This reviewer values the content of this book. ... a Christian culture once directed the country - even its raw capitalism - and now this influence is no more. Michael Jones provides his own well-researched explanation of this phenomenon."

Msgr. George Kelly, StAR

"E. Michael Jones, Catholic muckraker extraordinairre, has written his most compelling book to date - the quintessential history of the sexual revolution. ... part history of sexual liberation, part history of modern psychology and part history of psychological warfare - all woven masterfully into a coherent tapestry of conspiracy, evil genius, and subtle manipulation revealing the tragic consequences of the sexual revolution in the modern world. ... not for the faint of heart or those who blush easily."

Joseph O'Brien, Times Review

"... brilliant study of the sexual revolution ... "

M. Raphael Johnson, The Idyllic

"I am not Catholic nor am I an advocate of sexual liberationist doctrines, and I neither like or approve of our government’s pro-feminist, birth control policies. But I didn’t see the full implications of these policies before reading this book. ... Libido Dominandi is an important book that takes one of the central threads of modernity and pulls it through the skein of the last two hundred years of history. Michael Jones says things that Americans need to hear, and I wish there were a chance that his book could be widely circulated." 

Caryl Johnston

"The most unjustly unsung observer of America today, as far as I know, is E. Michael Jones, editor of the Catholic monthly Culture Wars (most of which he writes himself) and author of several wonderfully trenchant books. Among the latter are Libido Dominandi: Sexual Liberation and Political Control (2000) and The Slaughter of Cities: Urban Renewal as Ethnic Cleansing (2004), both of which tell the story of the cultural subversion practiced by America's elites, especially such seemingly respectable institutions as the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations. Jones is as profound as he is prolific. He's also versatile, original, combative, and fearless, naming names and drawing blood. If you think of liberals as well-meaning bumblers, guilty of nothing worse than ‘unintended consequences,’ you need to read Jones."

Joseph Sobran, Sobran's