Carsten Gaff was born in 1962 and is a Danish award-winning and best-selling author. He has performed more than 2500 lectures worldwide and has published 25 books - mostly about taboos. Carsten defines himself as a taboo philosopher, unhabitual thinker, and emotional explorer.

 

These are some of Carsten's other published books:

 

• Conversations with an oak tree. 

  • ​An anti-IT book about the difference between knowledge and wisdom.

• The Inner Elephant man

  • Carstens Ph.D. in ignorance.

• Murphy’s law for motorists

  • A book about the advantages of negative thinking.

• The book about not reading books

  • A non-best-seller and the last book you will read.

• True Ant

  • A children’s book about the bravery of asking difficult questions

• INFOENZA

  • Graff's novel about diseases related to the overuse of information technology

• A Clean Connection

  • The story of Carsten's polyamorous lifestyle.

• Encyclopedia of the unmentionable

  • New words defining areas most people are afraid of addressing

• The art of letting go

  • Conversations between a body therapist and a philosopher.

• Trip to the present

  • Conversations between a business coach and a philosopher

• Love Stories from Other planets

  • Carsten’s anthropological study of the unknown frontiers of sex and love.

 

WORK IN PROGRESS

• Handwriting year 2521

  • A handwritten book about the invention of handwriting in a distant future.

• The Virtuous Demon

  • The shocking book about the World’s Greatest Taboo

• The Feminist

  • The world’s first Business BDSM-book

• Insanity

  • The business book about the absurdity of personal development.

• MusePower

  • A book about sexual attraction and its power to boost and rejuvenate.   

 

THE WORLDS BIGGEST PHILOSOPHY EVENING

• Carsten Graff and Henrik Meng invited 5000 people while lecturing about the art of being in the present.  

 

THREE DIMENSIONAL LECTURES

After doing several thousand lectures Carsten decided to create a new kind of lectures creating a third dimension for participants. At every lecture guests were invited to participate – either by a certain action or through a certain mindset.

 

• Erotic church

  • Carsten rented a church in Copenhagen inviting guests to make love.

• The naked lecture

  • Carsten was naked while lecturing about indecent exposure in front of 300 naked guests.

• The philosophy of stealing

  • In this lecture, Carsten only gave access to people who would cheat their way in or steal tickets.

• The taboo of money

  • At this lecture, the audience would receive payment for their participation.

• The taboo of Dark Emotions

  • 250 people went for a lecture in complete darkness being guided by blind waiters.

• Be faithful to unfaithfulness

  • All participants had to bring a person with whom they wanted to be unfaithful.

• The art of being unpopular

  • Carsten did this lecture for 150 of his worst critiques.   

 

TABOO BIOGRAPHIES

Carsten has written a number of biographies about what he defines as outstanding people with whom he feels he can identify. All stories are written in the first person.

 

• The Dreamcatcher

  • A dive into the hidden culture and mindset behind multilevel marketing.

• Love for life

  • The life story of the man who – by accident – gave inspiration to ecological farming while being a pioneer behind biodynamical farming.

• Letter for my mother

  • An intimate, extreme, and personal story about incest and abuse with a rare and happy ending.  

• Not just for lust

  • Women tell their secret stories revealing their reasons to visit sex clubs alone.

• Strength and Health

  • The story behind a very efficient, but also controversial therapeutic system.

• Opening Pandora’s box

  • The hidden story behind the creation of the world’s biggest jewelry brand.

• Undeafeated

  • For the first time the personal story behind one of Russia’s most famous crime stories.

 

ANATOMY OF EMOTIONS

Over a period of 10 years, Carsten Graff facilitated more than 200 workshops taking groups of people to nature. Carsten created special conditions making it possible for the participants to explore themselves and each other. These processes were based on what Carsten called his concept of the anatomy of emotions. Carsten created his own curriculum from scratch inventing more than a thousand new emotional exercises.  

 

SURROGATE LOVER

• For most of his life, Carsten has been exploring unconventional approaches to intimacy and relationships.

 

SPERM DONATION PROJECT

• Carsten is working on a global sperm donation project defining his culture within sperm donation.

 

SUGARAMORY

• Carsten is defining and researching a dating culture based on his experiences with sugar dating and polyamory wanting to combine the best of two worlds. 

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