Biographies
Edward Carpenter (1844-1929)
Edward Carpenter (1844-1929) was a writer on utopian socialism and homosexuality, who sought to combine the notion of sex as pleasure, rather than reproduction, with a theory of social unity based on the redirection of sexual energies. Homogenic Love and its Place in a Free Society was published in 1894 and Love’s Coming of Age was written the following year but held back from publication because of the fall-out from the Wilde trial. Other works included The Intermediate Sex (1908) and Intermediate Types Among Primitive Folk (1914). Carpenter’s notion of the intermediate sex drew on the work of Havelock Ellis, Otto Weininger and Karl Ulrichs among others.