Havelock Ellis
(1859-1939)
An English scholar, essayist, and physician.
Havelock Ellis was an early champion of sex education for children, contraception, changes in the divorce laws, the emancipation of women, experimental premarital sexual relations, and the elimination of criminal laws against consenting adult homosexuality.
Ellis's classical work, a seven colume series, Studies in the Psychology of Sex, written between 1896 and 1928, was legally available in the United States only to the members of the medical profession until 1935.
A correspondent of Sigmund Freud, who adopted some of his terms and ideas, Ellis was the first to recognize and discuss the importance of touch and other senses in lovemaking, the nature of erotic dreams, the prevalence of masturbation and paraphilic behaviors.
Major Works of Havelock Ellis
- The Criminal (1890)
- The New Spirit (1890)
- The Nationalisation of Health (1892)
- Man and Woman: A Study of Secondary and Tertiary Sexual Characteristics (1894)
- Sexual Inversion, with J.A. Symonds (1897)
- Affirmations (1898)
- The Evolution of Modesty, The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity, Auto-Erotism (1900)
- The Nineteenth Century (1900)
- Analysis of the Sexual Impulse, Love and Pain, The Sexual Impulse in Women (1903)
- A Study of British Genius (1904)
- Sexual Selection in Man (1905)
- Erotic Symbolism, The Mechanism of Detumescence, The Psychic State in Pregnancy (1906)
- The Soul of Spain (1908)
- Sex in Relation to Society (1910)
- The Problem of Race-Regeneration (1911)
- The World of Dreams (1911)
- The Task of Social Hygiene (1912)
- Impressions and Comments, 3 vols. (1914-1924)
- Essays in War-Time (1916)
- The Philosophy of Conflict (1919)
- On Life and Sex: Essays of Love and Virtue (1921)
- Kanga Creek: An Australian Idyll (1922)
- Little Essays of Love and Virtue (1922)
- The Dance of Life (1923)
- Sonnets, with Folk Songs from the Spanish (1925)
- Eonism and Other Supplementary Studies (1928)
- The Art of Life (1929)
- More Essays of Love and Virtue (1931)
- Views and Reviews (1932)
- Psychology of Sex (1933)
- Chapman (1934)
- My Confessional (1934)
- Questions of Our Day (1934)
- From Rousseau to Proust (1935)
- Selected Essays (1936)
- My Life (1939)
- Sex Compatibility in Marriage (1939)
- The Genius of Europe (1950)
- The Unpublished Letters of Havelock Ellis to Joseph Ishill (1954)
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