This isn't about PWD.
It's about MWD.
I would respectfully disagreee with this
Extremely vulnerable people, male and female, are being exploited by sinister networks that aim to undermine democracy.
This exploitation of PWD is just one aspect of a greater trend.
I actually know several people with disabilities, male and female, who got involved with Tuppy Owens and her various apparently empowering but actually exploitative projects.
I cannot say too much as it would be extremely outing and my siutation is precarious / dangerous.
The same thing that is happening to all women is happening to women with disabilities only more so.
The prevalent narrative, and this is extremely important, is that wonderful things have been stolen from you by evil powers that be.
In the case of women, this narrative has its roots (at least as far as I can demonstrate) to a fetishised / sexualised / idealised model of "Oriental" spirituality that goes back to the 19th century and is probably much older.
Of particular interest is the Tantrik Order of the West started by Pierre Barnard (aka The Omnipotent Oom). Barnard's Tantrik Order attracted various heiresses, magnates and movers and shakers in the early 20th Century. Many scandals arose as one would expect.
A book that provides a fascinating insight into the early history of westernised tantric sex cults can be read here
www.scribd.com/doc/131956620/Marion-Dockerill-My-Life-in-a-Love-Cult
Anyone interested in the forerunners to Epstein's criminal network and NXIVM will find it a fascinating read.
The author's sister was involved with Crowley as a "scarlet woman" and the author herself with with Pierre Barnard and various other similar grifters.
The narrative tone is interesting. The author consders herself to be a sexually liberated and empowered woman but is clearly in the grip of multiple delusions about supernatural phenomena.
Given the narrative voice is is fascinating to read her accounts and concerns about various criminals using spirituality to dupe their victims.
The author appears to understand that people, mostly women, are being duped and exploited, yet is unable to relinquish her bizarre beliefs, possibly due to their narcissistically gratifying elements.
The same kinds of beliefs can be found in some old Russian sex cults.
So back to this idea that something wonderful has been stolen from you by evil "others"
In various sex cults throught history this wonderful thing that has been stolen is bliss / ecstasy / an authentic and wonderful sex life.
Of course there is an element of truth in this. Society is sexually repressive. Women's sexuality in particular has been the subject of collective anxiety, probably in relation to anxieties about infidelity and paternity of offspring.
I suspect that it is true that every woman on the planet understands, somewhere deep within herself, that society considers her sexuality as a dangerous force to be contained and controlled.
This understanding makes women extremely vulnerable to manipulation by cults who posit that women's "birthright" of blissful living / wonderful orgasms and ecstatic living has been stolen by evil oppressors.
Esalen, the Human Potential Movement and various dangerous cults and schools of quack psychotherapy have taken this concept and run with it.
Tuppy Owens' various exploitative organisations have successfully recruited vulnerable PWD to be her mascots and human shields.
These people believe that they are fighting for rights and entitlements that evil oppressors would love to deny them.
One former acquaintance of mine, a vulnerable disabled female with a history of being sexually taken advantage of by uncaring able-bodied men, is a poster girl for Tuppy's various projects. I have no doubt that she is being exploited but, as so often happens in these kinds of situations, she says she feels empowered.
In these kinds of situations the puppet masters will have a selection of vulnerable people, often female, who will defend their activities.
Tuppy's TLC organisation advertises various male sex workers who provide service to female clients.
The commercialisation of female sexuality in recent years has produced various narratives that promote all kinds of wierd and not so wonderful sexual practices as things women are entitled to enjoy and are missing out on if we don't get involved.
I am significantly more liberal re sex and sexuality than many posters here. I do not consider whatever consenting adults get up to sexually as my business.
However I find the vast array of quack products and surgeries marketed to women to be indicative of a novel modus operandi of controlling women and women's sexuality.
At one extreme there is FGM, women not permitted to travel without a male relative etc. and at the other we have women like Naomi Woolf and others paying for sexual services from Mike Lousada, a deeply concerning individual with multiple links to criminal cults.
With feminism we have one extreme where women taking about their fantasies and sex lives are reprimanded (they would say "kink shamed") and where women's sexual fantasies are denied and on the other there is an encouragement (training courses even - see Epstein and various "tantric' cults) for women to be so sexually uninhibited that they lose all sense of right and wrong and end up defending rapists and paedohiples.
Surely there is a "Goldilocks zone" somewhere in the middle where we are curious about women's sexuality, where we allow free and open discussion (when safe to do so), where we recognise that fantasies do not necessarily indicate someone being a bit "rapey" or actually wanting to enact any of the content of the fantasy?
Speaking as someone who worked in mental health for many years I can confidently share that many people's sexual fantasies are highly politically incorrect. It is far from uncommon for women to fantasise about being sexually violated. This does not mean that these women actually want to be sexually violated. Obviously.
I am wondering whether the relucatance to explore female sexuality by feminism (apart from "sex positive" feminism which seems to have become assocaited with cults) has left women at risk of brainwashing and exploitation?
I appreciate that this may be seen as a provocative post. I am late, as usual, and will not be able to post again for a while.
Just sharing some thoughts and experiences.