Books like Demons of the flesh by Nikolas Schreck

A comprehensive guide to sex and sexuality, especially for young men, with discussions of sexual truths and lies, masturbation, AIDS, pregnancy, abortion, heterosexuality and homosexuality, and the importance of open communication.

A practical skeptic named Josephine "Jo" Burke finds herself drawn to her enigmatic co‑worker, Maksim Kostova, as strange visions of a dead girl haunt her. Love and the supernatural collide in a paranormal romance that tests Jo’s belief in the unseen.

Set in the glittering yet perilous 17th‑century Spanish court, The Flesh and the Devil follows spirited Juana de Arrelanos, who is abducted and forced into wedlock with the cruel Duque de Valenzuela while navigating conspiracies at Castillo Benaventes.

In the sensual, violent and jewelled world of the 15th century, the formidable Gavin - chancellor of Scotland - is the one man in whom the most dynamic of the Stewart kings dares put his trust. He is also, perhaps, the only man strong enough to save the kingdom from civil war.

"On 20 September 1587 Walpurga Hausmannin of Dillingen in southern Germany was burned at the stake as a witch. Although she had confessed to committing a long list of maleficia (deeds of harmful magic), including killing forty-one infants and two mothers in labor, her evil career allegedly began with just one heinous act - sex with a demon. Fornication with demons was a major theme of her trial record, which detailed an almost continuous orgy of sexual excess with her diabolical paramour Federlin "in many diverse places,...even in the street by night."". "As Walter Stephens demonstrates in Demon Lovers, it was not Hausmannin or other so-called witches who were obsessive about sex with demons - instead, a number of devout Christians, including trained theologians, displayed an uncanny preoccupation with the topic during the centuries of the "witch craze." Why? To find out, Stephens conducts a detailed investigation of the first and most influential treatises on witchcraft (written between 1430 and 1530), including the infamous Malleus maleficarum (Hammer of Witches).". "Far from being credulous fools or mindless misogynists, early writers on witchcraft emerge in Stephens's account as rational but reluctant skeptics, trying desperately to resolve contradictions in Christian thought on God, spirits, and the sacraments that had bedeviled theologians for centuries. Proof of the physical existence of demons - for instance, through evidence of their intercourse with mortal witches - would provide strong evidence for the reality of the supernatural, the truth of the Bible, and the existence of God. Early modern witchcraft theory reflected a crisis of belief - a crisis that continues to be expressed today in popular debates over angels, satanic ritual child abuse, and alien abduction."--BOOK JACKET.