Lola LaVey did not emerge from academia or inheritance…

She came of age upstate in New York, but now lives and works in the birthplace of the Church of Satan, San Francisco, California.

Her illustration and graphic design skills were refined from an early age and carried over into freelance work for close peers and acquaintances. It was here that she familiarized herself with the language of visual hierarchy and symbolism.

These skills would serve her well throughout the development of her follow-up project, the Ars Femina Transsexualis, a diagrammatic reinterpretation of Anton LaVey’s Personality Synthesizer Clock.

She discovered The Satanic Witch while escorting through Ashley Madison. The same moniker, “Lola,” used during that period was later adopted as her pen name.

This is not a metaphor. The original work is, after all, written in favor of the under-the-table mistress, as reflected in Father LaVey’s sentiment:

“Some of the best witches are prostitutes.”

To say that Chapter 5, On Prostitutes and Pentagrams, struck a personal chord would be quite the understatement. The book recognized her in her fullness before she ever bothered to give it a chance. Anton’s writing articulated a system she had already been practicing intuitively, stripped of the theatrics of morality, as The Dark Lord intended.

What followed was a natural progression. Her decision to exit the street corners and dodgy hotels to begin drafting this manuscript came easily, almost instinctively. An education degree from state university could finally be put to use. Not for the purpose of wrangling restless toddlers as initially expected, but of teaching other trans women the art of taking what they want from the world without apology.

She remains firm in her belief that had she not written the transsexual version of this book, someone else inevitably would have. It is important to understand that her origins were not obscured from this biography because within the philosophy of LaVeyan Satanism, they are not considered shameful.

Shame has no place here.