She was born in 1926 in the Dominican Republic, and she called herself Olisha, after the Caribbean Goddess of Love. When World War II broke out, an unfortunate series of events left her stranded in Paris with her mother. Olisha survived working as an elite fille de joie (sex worker) at a brothel called the L’Étoile de Kléber. Mother and daughter were taken under the wing of a French Madame named Billie and a gypsy named Lili. From them, Olisha learned strategies of seduction, spells, and incantations that she claimed enchanted and stupefied men.
After the war, Olisha studied Anthropology at Sorbonne University in Paris and later travelled throughout Asia. She spent twelve years in India as a disciple of a Tantra yogini (female spiritual teacher of sexual Yoga). Eventually, Olisha arrived in New York City, where she briefly studied Sex Magick as an adherent of the Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O).
She would speak of Sex Magick, Shakti, the one female Goddess, and the waywardness of the five worldly religions. She also talked of seduction and how to channel male sexual energy and servitude toward their original divine objective: Woman.
Olisha would speak of what men really desire and techniques of seduction: how to kiss and caress a man, how to tease him, build sexual tension, and then deny, sympathize, and ultimately reduce a man to powerless adoration. She used to say that the tragedy of the male gender is sexual anguish and unsatisfied cravings that originate in childhood. She would quote Thoreau, saying that “most men lead lives of quiet desperation,” and she liked to cite Freud, saying that men persevere in a state of mourning over the loss of maternal love, passing their lives forever seeking but never finding that perfect love in sex. She said the secret that opened any man’s heart was the craving, not for a mother, but for mothering. Eventually, she spoke to me of extreme sex, compassionate humiliation, sodomy, cuckolding, homosexuality, conquest, and ultimately what is known as “male chastity” (male voluntary sexual enslavement), saying, “There are no chains that bind a man more securely than his own lust.”
This blog and the books I have written are the beginning of sharing what Olisha shared with me.
