Although chiefly conducted between 1995 and 2007, a comprehensive understanding of Pandrogeny needs to reckon with its historical precedents in P-Orridge's own artistic endeavors dating back to the 1970s as well as how the project changed, but did continue, after Breyer's untimely death. The influences behind Pandrogeny did not come to fruition in a vacuum; extending its timeframe will consider the historical, political, religious, and personal phenomena at work in influencing the directions Pandrogeny eventually took.

My primary intervention into the study of Pandrogeny is to bring out its religious dimensions. I address religion through a dual approach of understanding it as both a determining force of socio-cultural formation and as a fluid category that can be pursued in otherwise secular spheres of human culture. I track the ethical concerns apparent in the work of Breyer P-Orridge as they shift in the wake of the domination wrought by staunchly traditional moral standards. At the center of these issues is the matter of the body—how representations of bodies become fodder for moral debate; how regulations seek to control what is done to and with bodies in private; and how bodies serve as sites of ethical formation, ascetic discipline, and spiritual transformation. In the process of addressing these matters through a specific, but extensive, case study, this project also aims to shed further light on the interrelations between religion, art, gender and sexuality in the late modern West.