A curious specimen of Fortean.
Whose connection is slight, and removed at that.
Joseph-Paul Swenne was born in Belgium around 1898. He is most famous for being a sexologist, publishing under the name Marc Lanval. In 1924, when he was an engineer, Swenne founded the Belgian League of Heliophilus Propaganda—styled Hélios. According to Evert Peeters, he combined the community, situated in a small village near Brussels, “with controversial propaganda in favour of ‘scientific contraception’, the new discipline of sexology, and sexual reform.” The community, as might be guessed by its name, was nudist—and, in my thinking, reminds me of Jocelyn Godwin’s “Theosophical Enlightenment,” which found in Theosophy and its offshoots the pairing of sun worship and the veneration of generative powers. In Lanval’s case, though, sex was not permitted in Hélios, though the sun was seen as curative.
Whose connection is slight, and removed at that.
Joseph-Paul Swenne was born in Belgium around 1898. He is most famous for being a sexologist, publishing under the name Marc Lanval. In 1924, when he was an engineer, Swenne founded the Belgian League of Heliophilus Propaganda—styled Hélios. According to Evert Peeters, he combined the community, situated in a small village near Brussels, “with controversial propaganda in favour of ‘scientific contraception’, the new discipline of sexology, and sexual reform.” The community, as might be guessed by its name, was nudist—and, in my thinking, reminds me of Jocelyn Godwin’s “Theosophical Enlightenment,” which found in Theosophy and its offshoots the pairing of sun worship and the veneration of generative powers. In Lanval’s case, though, sex was not permitted in Hélios, though the sun was seen as curative.