Sexuality

Sexual Inversion (volume 2 of Studies in the Psychology of Sex), from which this brief extract is taken, was the first English medical text book to suggest that homosexuality was neither a disease nor a crime. Other Ellis also suggested psychologically important concepts, including autoerotism and narcissism, later developed by Freud.

Below is extract from Havelock Ellis’ Sexual Inversion, vol 2 of Studies in the Psychology of Sex, taken from the reader L. Bland and L. Doan (eds), Sexology Uncensored: the documents of sexual science (London, 1998).

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