Bio:
Havelock Ellis
(1859-1939)
| Though
he was trained as a doctor, Englishman Havelock Ellis
never practiced medicine. Instead, he devoted his
life to the scientific study of sex. His most
controversial book, Sexual
Inversion, was suppressed in England because it
advocated tolerance, but it eventually garnered a wide
following in England and the U. S. Ellis' interest
in sex and sexuality probably came from his own unorthodox
tastes; He was a confirmed masturbator and found
female urination exquisitely stimulating. |
Havelock Ellis |
His interest in inversion was at
least partly motivated by his wife's lesbianism and a
circle of intellectual friends who were inverts
themselves. A diffident man disinterested in fame or
followers, Ellis never gained the following of his
contemporary Sigmund Freud, but his collected works on
sex, Studies in the Psychology of Sex, went through
many editions. |
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