For anyone who has ever felt the pull of something they couldn't name, this book whispers: Your edges are sacred. Your pleasure is power. You don't need permission anymore. The alchemy has always been yours.
Forbidden Alchemy is part memoir, part spiritual guide, and part erotic initiation. Sharon Marie Scott takes readers to the edges of taboo— where sex, shame, and power collide— and shows how those edges hold medicine. Through story, myth, and practice, she reveals how the Dark Feminine and Dark Masculine currents move through us, and how pleasure itself can become a technology for awakening. Bold, poetic, and deeply embodied, this book invites readers to reclaim desire, transform shame into sovereignty, and discover the sacred at the very edges they were taught to fear.
This book is an invitation to examine what you've been taught to fear about your own desires. It does not prescribe a particular path, nor does it claim that these experiences are universal or necessary. Rather, it offers one person's journey through the edges of cultural taboo toward personal sovereignty and erotic wholeness. This work advocates for awareness, communication, and personal agency in all intimate exchanges. If you choose to engage with this material, please do so with self-awareness and respect for your own boundaries.
This book contains mature content intended for adult readers.
The author explores sexuality, power dynamics, and alternative relationship structures with unflinching honesty. This work is designed to challenge cultural taboos and examine the intersection of eroticism and spirituality.
This book contains sexually explicit language, detailed descriptions of sexual experiences, BDSM practices, power exchange dynamics, and consensual non-consent scenarios. It also explores childhood trauma, emotional wounds, codependency, and challenges to conventional religious frameworks.
All experiences and practices described involve informed consent between adults.