Havelock ellis psychologist
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Ellis, Henry Havelock 1859–1939
Born on February 2, 1859, in the small town of Croydon, south of London, Henry Havelock Ellis was one of the most significant early sexologists. These medical doctors turned sexual scientists (others included Sigmund Freud [1856–1939], Albert Moll [1862–1939], Magnus Hirschfeld [1868–1935], and Iwan Bloch [1872–1922]) revised Victorian notions about sexuality and contributed to a new sexual modernism that viewed sex as a primary and legitimate human occupation.
Havelock ellis psychologist
Even in this atmosphere, Ellis's outlook on sex was markedly optimistic, tolerant, and celebratory. In fact, scholars cite this enthusiasm and openness as among Ellis's greatest bequests to sexual science, as reflected, for instance, in the upbeat tolerance of later sex researcher Alfred C.
Kinsey (1894–1956).
Ellis was educated in respectable boarding schools, but his schooldays were not without problems. He was a passive boy often bullied by older schoolmates. The descendant of generations