Warning: This post contains graphic language.
It’s no wonder that Bryan Fischer is such a big fan of “Swallowed by Satan,” as the book almost reads like a Religious Right activist’s imagining of what the “gay lifestyle” is really like. Author Joseph Sciambra portrays the gay community as a violent, animalistic, hyper-sexual and demonic place that poses many dangers for young people, who he writes are “getting used-up and eventually pulverized on the homosexual millstone.”
For example, he writes about how he felt the need to “recruit” young men in a “sickeningly vampiristic” gay practice:
My first sex-club venture inadvertently exposed a dirty, but far from secret, reality within the gay community: the constant need for young new recruits. Since the gay population cannot naturally reproduce itself, they rely on those entering the lifestyle to renew their always aging and dwindling numbers. My first lover in the bathhouse was a man from another generation. As it goes, older and experienced gay men will almost always initiate the young and naive into the world of gay sex.... The procedure is sickeningly vampiristic. The young draw some imagined male power from their partners during an inaugural sexual encounter, while the older males feed off the youthful innocence and vigor of the new converts.
“I took a sick pleasure in having sex with other men,” Sciambra recounts, “especially young guys, as I thought I could be passing death over to them.”
Sciambra writes in detail about engaging in oral sex with a demonic creature who had “a very long and serpent like tongue” through a glory hole. He also claims to have had sex with a demonic figure while shooting a pornographic film. Not to mention the time he had sex with a pilot mid-flight while he was traveling across the country to have group sex with political elites in Washington.
Not only was Sciambra a member of a gay witch sex cult, but his girlfriend (that’s right, he had a girlfriend at one point) was part of a community of witches, who introduce him to Church of Satan founder Anton LaVey.
Eventually, Sciambra joined a Neo-Nazi organization in Idaho, which he explained was a natural fit since he “had already been well trained by the equally vicious haters in the perpetually malevolent gay community.”
“In a certain way, the world of Neo-Nazism was no different from gay culture: they were both obsessed with the masculine ideal, conformity to a singular agenda, an extreme hatred for all those who disagreed with their principles,” he adds.
Sciambra first became interested in Nazism after acquiring a Nazi soldier’s hat after a German businessman paid him to beat him up and have sex with him on camera while dressed as a Nazi. But the hat ended up having a power over him: “Clothed in a relic of the past, the dead ghosts of buried degenerates could take over my body”…much like in The Simpsons episode “Treehouse of Horror: Hell Toupée.”
Sciambra recalls how he began to idolize and fantasize about Adolf Hitler, who he viewed as the “ultimate male” and “a new messiah, superman reborn.” But Hitler wasn’t enough for him and he began to pursue “the darker side of the occult.”
“The draw towards Satanism was also linked with my desire to push the limits of porn,” he writes.
Finally, after injuring his rectum during more group sex, Sciambra joined that Catholic group Courage—which encourages gay people to live a life of celibacy—as well as a Latin Mass monastic community…only to depart when he suspected that one of the priests was sexually abusing students at a local Catholic school.
He tried to leave it all behind by going to Los Angeles, but sensed that the city was dominated by demons: “I almost uncontrollably freaked out when I got closer to LA. All the evil that I knew was still there.”
