Heaven's Harlots: My Fifteen Years As a Sacred Prostitute in the Children of God Cult

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	Heaven's Harlots: My Fifteen Years As a Sacred Prostitute in the Children of God Cult Miriam Williams William Morrow & Company, 1998 - 297 pages average customer review:based on 19 reviews view larger image
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An explosive 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.

Now, in a clear, compelling, cautionary tale, she shares both her extraordinary existence as a holy whore and the daunting experience of rebuilding a normal life -- an ordeal that led her to found a group dedicated to helping other cult survivors reclaim their souls as well.

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Somebody Ought to be stoppd

Well I thought I had seen it all - i have been abused all my life - friends relatives ministers and I guess that is why i was interested to read this book. I was hooked on drugs for years becasue of what I went through - I got clean and then got hooked on oxycontin for so long - i couldn;t ven tell the time of year sometimes becuase i was in a haze so much and peopel would coem along to my house and do sex to me and I woudln't even know it my husband at the time was also an addict but he had a job and he woudl lock me in the house with no car keys when he left for work. He said it was to keep me from driving but I know it was to keep me from escaping to myself and to freedom. I got free and got a job and cleaned up Now things are better - I have two full itme jobs and manage to make ends meet most of the time I tried to join a church a while back and I think maybe it was a church like this. I went a few times but then peopel were always being asked to take off their clothes and do sex things and that made me uncomfortable. I lost my sponnser becuase i said I wouldn;t go back to this place with her - her name was Rochelle - but she said if I didn;t iek the church i didn;t like her. This lady in this book stuck around way too long I had to do lots of dirty things in my life but I wastrying to survive and was also high most of the time. she was not high and just did it becasue of the minister;s orders. One thing I have learned from books and groups is never to let a man have oer over you - they will do you dity and laugh to their frinds about it . Even if a man is a man of God they will still do it. Mymother got hooked up with a minister and we were run out of town by a whole group of angry Christians. My mother died of shame - and an alchoholic liver. So stay away from cults and men.

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Great insight on religious cults!

This book is a real eye opener for those that are unfamiliar with religious cults, it explains many different reasons as to why one would join one and why they would stay. This books gives a personal account for how and why one can be easily persuaded to join a cult, it also gives great inspiration for those that are trying to re-connect with society after being a part of a communal cult for many years. I really enjoyed this book and admire the author for telling her story! This book is a great journey into one's self discovery and triumph!

Heaven's Harlots

Well, this isn't your usual book about religion. Miriam was a young lady just out of high school and planning to attend college and then she decides to join a religious cult called "The Children of God" and later "The Family".

To learn more about this cult, do a Google search where you can find much more about this group.

Miriam's book is interesting in that it illustrates that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely and just because it's done in the name of GOD doesn't mean that it's not corrosive to your spirit.

Many younger readers may not realize the "free sex" of the 60's or the hippie and drug scene that existed at that time and the drug scene and therefore not understand how a cult could establish itself and find willing members, especially pretty young female members who would be willing to share their bodies with other members and even to go out ffishing for new members and raising money for the cult through sexual activity.

Perhaps some readers will recall the cults such as the Hari Krishna's who's members hung out at American Parks and air ports and begged for money.

The members of the Children of God went out into the public selling the writing of their Leader, "MO", and each member had quota's that they had to meet or they were penalized in one way or another.

In addition, the cult developed and encouraged some of the talents of their members by using them to perform musical events in Paris and also in Southern France. Appearently, Miriam was quite a singer and dancer and as an attractive and young woman, her value to the cult was all the more so she could attract the attention of "high value" men such as Salim who she writes about as one of her customers.

The cult would not allow their women members to use birth control and as a consequence, Miriam had five children. Some of the cult members contracted STD's due to the restriction on protection.

A husband was chosen for Miriam against her own will as they were for other members and she never felt love for this man all though he dearly loved her. Later, he decides to marry another woman and Miriam shares her husband with another "wife" who eventually steals her husbands complete attention.

Eventually, Miriam decides to leave the cult after they begin to promote sexual relations between adult members and children. She returns to the U.S. to live with her mom and returns to academia and earns her B.A., Masters and eventually her PHD. She is a professor at Kennesaw University just North of Atlanta and I wish her well.

It is wonderful that this lady was able to discover her right path and turn her life around and away from the false message of the cult that had attracted her during her youth.

It is becoming more and more clear that women have been treated as second class citizens by many major religions, not just cults, even blaming "Eve" for the original sin.

Along the same vein, I suggest the following book as well:

A Thousand Splendid suns by Khaled Hosseini.

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very well written and informative.......

I have never heard of this author..but I loved this book..
I am a avid reader of books about the sex industry, and
have read many...Ivy League Stripper is great,,and the new
book "Dance to Despair (Memoirs of an exotic dancer) by
Rebeckka Sathan Black are both excellent memoirs that you
should read......

I glimpse into the life of a cult member

It was an enjoyable read and interesting to gain insight into the life of a cult member. The language flowed and the book was easy to get wrapped up in.

It amazes me that so many people fell into line with the cult's ideology and actually raised children in such an environment.

For all that the author divulged I felt that there were certain aspects of life within the cult that she was not willing to be open about. Namely the prevalence of child abuse. She touches upon the subject briefly and at the same time appears to defend the cult when talking about the abuse, as if she is doubting what she heard and saw.

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