ISHAM COOK

Literary provocations

Massage vibrations in Vietnam

The explosion of Vietnamese massage services.
Five steps toward personal emancipation in an Orwellian world

An anti-fascist, anti-capitalist personal self-help guide for immediate practical application.
The Tao of Poison. A novel.

A poisonous maiden, a Daoist sex cult, and a violent insurgency.
Loving many: Polyamorous self-actualization

Exploring the concept of generous intimacy.
Music for massage, meditation, sex, and psychedelics

Contemplating the music of the future.
An alien expat visits post-Covid USA

A 5,000-mile road trip to see old friends in changed times.
Pop music and the Asian face

Thoughts on aversive racism in the American music industry.
Music and totalitarianism

What happens to music when the state gets its hands on it.
Datura and the psychedelic Tao

Taoist sexual technology supercharged by the world’s most powerful entheogen.
Sexual Fascism: Essays

Under the mass surveillance of erotic intimacy, sexual freedom is retreating even as it appears to be advancing.
The state of rage: The American sexual dystopia

How the state exploits public rage to discipline the population.
Transgressions: From porn to polyamory

The walls of sexual repression within.