Studies in the Psychology of Sex Quotes

“A woman may not want a lover, but may yet want a child.”
― Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Vol 3: Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women

“the female is most easily won by the male who most strongly excites her sexual instincts.”
― Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Vol 3: Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women

“Steinach found that, when sexually mature white rats were castrated, though at first they remained as potent as ever, their potency gradually declined; sexual excitement, however, and sexual inclination always persisted.”
― Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Vol 3: Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women

“Luther, again, always compared the sexual to the excretory impulse, and said that marriage was just as necessary as the emission of urine.”
― Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Vol 3: Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women

“That sexual feelings exist [it would be better to say 'may exist'] from earliest infancy is well known, and therefore this function does not depend upon puberty, though intensified by it.”
― Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Vol 3: Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women