& Political...: Libido Dominandi: Sexual Liberation

: The book describes a "Gnostic system" where the public is told that sexual liberation equals freedom (the exoteric truth), while the elites understand it is actually a method of control (the esoteric truth).

: The title is derived from St. Augustine’s City of God , referring to the "lust for domination". Jones argues that by "liberating" man from the moral order, modern powers turn Augustine's insight on its head, creating "masters out of men's vices". Libido Dominandi: Sexual Liberation & Political...

: Jones traces how various technologies and disciplines—including psychotherapy, behaviorism, advertising, and pornography —have been used over the last two centuries to engineer this covert system of control. : The book describes a "Gnostic system" where