Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3

Havelock Ellis (1859 - 1939)

Volume 3: Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain

In the study of Love and Pain I have discussed the sources of those aberrations which are commonly called, not altogether happily, "sadism" and "masochism." Here we are brought before the most extreme and perhaps the most widely known group of sexual perversions. I have considered them from the medico-legal standpoint, because that has already been done by other writers whose works are accessible. I have preferred to show how these aberrations may be explained; how they may be linked on to normal and fundamental aspects of the sexual impulse; and, indeed, in their elementary forms, may themselves be regarded as normal. In some degree they are present, in every case, at some point of sexual development; their threads are subtly woven in and out of the whole psychological process of sex. I have made no attempt to reduce their complexity to a simplicity that would be fallacious. I hope that my attempt to unravel these long and tangled threads will be found to make them fairly clear.

In the third study, on The Sexual Impulse in Women, we approach a practical question of applied sexual psychology, and a question of the first importance. No doubt the sex impulse in men is of great moment from the social point of view. It is, however, fairly obvious and well understood. The impulse in women is not only of at least equal moment, but it is far more obscure. The natural difficulties of the subject have been increased by the assumption of most writers who have touched it—casually and hurriedly, for the most part—that the only differences to be sought in the sexual impulse in man and in woman are quantitative differences. I have pointed out that we may more profitably seek for qualitative differences, and have endeavored to indicate such of these differences as seem to be of significance. - Summary by Havelock Ellis

Genre(s): Psychology

Language: English

Keyword(s): psychology (119), women (89), sex (20), medical (10), human behavior (2), behavior (2), clinical (1)

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Play 01 Preface to Second Edition Krystal J Silas
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Play 02 Preface to the First Edition Krystal J Silas
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Play 03 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse, Part 1 Cbteddy
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Play 04 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse, Part 2 Cbteddy
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Play 05 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse, Part 3 Cbteddy
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Play 06 Love and Pain I, Part 1 Cbteddy
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Play 07 Love and Pain I, Part 2 Cbteddy
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Play 08 Love and Pain II Cbteddy
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Play 09 Love and Pain III Cbteddy
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Play 10 Love and Pain IV Cbteddy
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Play 11 Love and Pain V Cbteddy
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Play 12 Love and Pain VI Cbteddy
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Play 13 Love and Pain VII Cbteddy
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Play 14 Sexual Impulse in Women Cbteddy
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Play 15 Sexual Impulse in Women I, Part 1 Cbteddy
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Play 16 Sexual Impulse in Women I, Part 2 Cbteddy
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Play 17 Sexual Impulse in Women II Cbteddy
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Play 18 Sexual Impulse in Women III Cbteddy
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Play 19 Appendix A: The Sexual Instinct in Savages Cbteddy
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Play 20 Appendix B: The Development of the Sexual Instinct Cbteddy
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Play 21 Appendix B: The Development of the Sexual Instinct, Continued Cbteddy
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Play 22 Appendix B: The Development of the Sexual Instinct, Concluded Cbteddy
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