#HavelockEllis became her mentor & lover. Like Sanger, he believed that birth control was the key to #SexualLiberation. Of meeting him, Sanger wrote this in her diary:
“I count this as a glorious day to have conversed w/the one man who has done more than anyone

DYK #HavelockEllis’ supplement to Studies in the Psychology of Sex (1936) repudiated #KrafftEbing’s dominating theories about #degeneracy? #OralSex, #SandM, #kink, #FetishPlay, & #BDSM & were normal & okay. But ghosts of #HistSex still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com

DYK #HavelockEllis used #eonism for all #transvestites after fencer #ChevalierdEon? D’Eon claimed to never have enjoyed #CrossDressing or sex. He did it for spy work. #LouisXV forced him to live in seclusion dressed as a woman until death. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #QueerHistory

Words of wisdom. #HavelockEllis #QuoteOftheDay

DYK #HavelockEllis described the dressing habits of #CrossDressing #transvestite Commander James Robbins of Cooper’s Mills, Maine in “Eonism & Other Supplementary Studies”, 1928, 7th vol. of “Psychology of Sex”? HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #QueerHistory #transgender

DYK #HavelockEllis (d.1939) & Richard von #KrafftEbing (d.1902) disagreed on the nature of the sex worker? Ebing saw her as over-sexed. Ellis saw her as indifferent to coitus. In fact, occasional sex work was fairly common for the many women who were without means.

DYK #HavelockEllis, who normalized sexuality, was also mentor & lover of #MargaretSanger while she was on the lam in London to avoid sentencing for using the mail to promote #BirthControl in the USA? She was to relieve women of the world from sexual suppression. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com

DYK #ChevalierDEon claimed to never enjoy sex or #CrossDressing? Only did it for spy work? #LouisXVI forced him to live, against his will, in seclusion, #CrossDressed as a woman until death. #HavelockEllis used #eonism for all #transvestites. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #HistSex

#HavelockEllis, on the other hand, thought Mitchell was a “typical invert”. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #QueerHistory #HappyPride

Words of wisdom. #HavelockEllis #QuoteOftheDay

DYK #HavelockEllis, in 1883, helped found the Fellowship of the New Life, a club for humanists who wanted to change ideas about sexual morality? He believed that all kinds of sex were moral, even those that used pain.

“The art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.”
—#HavelockEllis