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Henry Havelock Ellis
(2 Feb 1859 - 8 Jul 1939)
British sexologist.
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Science Quotes by Henry Havelock Ellis (7 quotes)
'Auto erotism,' ... spontaneous solitary sexual phenomena of which genital excitement during sleep may be said to be the type.
— Henry Havelock Ellis
Psychology of Sex (1933), 91.
Courtship, properly understood, is the process whereby both the male and the female are brought into that state of sexual tumescence which is a more or less necessary condition for sexual intercourse. The play of courtship cannot, therefore, be considered to be definitely brought to an end by the ceremony of marriage; it may more properly be regarded as the natural preliminary to every act of coitus.
— Henry Havelock Ellis
Studies in the Psychology of Sex (1921), Vol. 3, 239.
I regard sex as the central problem of life. And now that the problem of religion has practically been settled, and that the problem of labor has at least been placed on a practical foundation, the question of sex�with the racial questions that rest on it�stands before the coming generations as the chief problem for solution. Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.
— Henry Havelock Ellis
Studies in the Psychology of Sex (1897), Vol. 1, xxx.
Reproduction is so primitive and fundamental a function of vital organisms that the mechanism by which it is assured is highly complex and not yet clearly understood. It is not necessarily connected with sex, nor is sex necessarily connected with reproduction.
— Henry Havelock Ellis
Psychology of Sex (1933), 7.
The modesty of women, which, in its most primitive form among animals, is based on sexual periodicity, is, with that periodicity, an essential condition of courtship.
— Henry Havelock Ellis
Psychology of Sex (1933), 30.
The second great channel through which the impulse towards the control of procreation for the elevation of the race is entering into practical life is by the general adoption, by the educated�of methods for the prevention of conception except when conception is deliberately desired.
— Henry Havelock Ellis
Studies in the Psychology of Sex (1913), Vol. 4, 588.
What we call 'Progress' is the exchange of one Nuisance for another Nuisance.
— Henry Havelock Ellis
Impressions and Comments (1914), 5.
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2 Feb - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Ellis's birth.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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