British - Psychologist | February 2, 1859 - July 8, 1939
In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists.
Havelock Ellis
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No act can be quite so intimate as the sexual embrace.
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Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life.
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The average husband enjoys the total effect of his home but is usually unable to contribute any of the details of work and organisation that make it enjoyable.
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The husband - by primitive instinct partly, certainly by ancient tradition - regards himself as the active partner in matters of love and his own pleasure as legitimately the prime motive for activity.
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The relation of the individual person to the species he belongs to is the most intimate of all relations.
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Socialism also brings us up against the hard rock of eugenic fact which, if we neglect it, will dash our most beautiful social construction to fragments.
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Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent.
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When love is suppressed hate takes its place.
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Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.
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The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing.
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