Heaven's harlots : my fifteen years as a sacred prostitute in the Children of God cult / Miriam Williams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Williams, Miriam.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Williams, Miriam.

Children of God (Movement)--Biography.

Children of God (Movement).

Prostitution--Religious aspects.

Controversial literature.

Children of God (Movement)--Controversial literature.

Ex-prostitutes--Biography.

Ex-prostitutes.

Prostitution--Religious aspects--Controversial literature.

Prostitution.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

xv, 297 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Eagle Brook, [1998]

Summary:

A first-person account by a young woman who spent fifteen years in a sex cult called the Children of God, which encouraged "sacred prostitution" and taught that "The Lord is our pimp." Miriam Williams was an idealistic child of the sixties who, at seventeen, accepted an invitation from a "Jesus person" to visit a commune in upstate New York. She would soon be prostituting herself for a perverse cult that used sex to lure sinners to the Lord -- and this is her shocking, searingly honest account of a fifteen-year spiritual odyssey gone haywire. The Children of God turned its female devotees into Heaven's Harlots, leading strangers to the love of God by enticing them with the pleasures of the flesh. At its height, the cult boasted 19,000 members around the world: In such places as France and Monte Carlo, young women, Miriam among them, mingled with the rich and famous to save their souls, and in this unsparing, unnerving autobiography, she'll identify some of her high-profile "clients." She left this bizarre world in an attempt to protect her son, born through an arranged marriage and kidnapped by his father.

ISBN:

0688155049

OCLC:

38048362