I doubt it’s been disowned; different strokes and all that. However if you were to read another author, you may find the same rituals described, but with minor changes or different emphasis - rather innocuous by comparison.
If you have ever met any wiccans of the 60s and 70s you are fairly likely to have heard some stories of acts performed to gain the privilege of initiation to higher degrees etc - most of the stories I’ve heard related to high priestesses rather than priests - but somehow always directed at covens who are ‘outgroup’ to the audience and rarely present to defend themselves. The words that always resonated rather unpleasantly for me were the (highly sarcastic) ‘An act of worship upon the Goddess’…
