25. They don’t sacrifice animals or children, but Church of Satan members still love a good orgy
Included in the mantra of Satan representing indulgence is the license to indulge yourself sexually. Writing in the sexually-liberated 1960s when ‘Free Love’ was in vogue, it’s perhaps unsurprising that LaVey took this line, though he is careful to circumscribe the term: ‘free love, in the Satanic concept, means exactly that – freedom to either be faithful to one person or to indulge yourself sexually with as many others as you feel is necessary’. Nonetheless, the Church has long been notorious for its orgies which, ironically, recall the alleged encounters of witches with demons in Early Modern witch-hunting manuals.
