Psychology of Sex: A Manual for Students

by H. Havelock Ellis

Sexual impulses in youth, homosexuality, marriage, and sexual deviation are among the topics treated in this study of the psychological aspects of sex

Genres: Psychology, Nonfiction, Sexuality, Biology

377 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1933

About the author

Henry Havelock Ellis, known as Havelock Ellis, was a British physician, writer, and social reformer who studied human sexuality. He was co-author of the first medical textbook in English on homosexuality in 1897, and also published works on a variety of sexual practices and inclinations, including transgender psychology. He is credited with introducing the notions of narcissism and autoeroticism, later adopted by psychoanalysis. He served as president of the Galton Institute and, like many intellectuals of his era, supported eugenics.

Reviews

[kunkku · Rating 5 out of 5]

"Few books on the subject can be so confidently recommended as this admirable volume" so Bertrand Russell was quoted as pronouncing... on the back cover of my volume which i bought shortly after its 8th printing in 1962, representing as it did for me my only formal education on this nebulous subject...

[Mike Simpson · Rating 4 out of 5]

I am currently reading and publishing critical review of this book on my blog Book Excerpts.

[Ig-88 · Rating 5 out of 5]

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[WaldenOgre · Rating 3 out of 5]

这本书真正有意思的部分其实在于译者注。因为本书霭理士写在1933年，潘光旦译在1941年，很多内容恐怕已经大大过时了。

[Mediuschung · Rating 2 out of 5]

read in 2018
內地譯本讀起上嚟真係困難重重，得著好少。
要欣賞havelock集大成，破迷信立新風嘅主張。雖然佢對「病」嘅定義喺現代唔完全適用，但至少我都可以嘗試搵個「因」 出嚟畀佢。
性膨脹同性消脹就係基本原因，對錯就係道德之判。
喺聖之上仲有更重要嘅「情」，本能嘅性同慾望嘅性就係昇華。愛係最高嘅藝術，sex is part of it.