DYK #HavelockEllis published “Sexual Inversion” in 1897? It caused a storm for outing famous Renaissance men for having #QueerSex. There were Francis Bacon (d.1626), Leonardo da Vinci (d.1519), Christopher Marlowe (d.1593), & Michelangelo (d.1564). #QueerHistory
#HavelockEllis, on the other hand, thought Mitchell was a “typical invert”. howsexgotscrewedup.com #QueerHistory
DYK #HavelockEllis, who normalized sexuality, mentored #MargaretSanger while on the lam for opening 1st birth control clinic in the USA? She went on to make birth control legal for women worldwide & to bring about the invention of the pill—the first woman-controlled method.
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DYK #HavelockEllis repudiated Richard #vonKrafftEbing’s dominating theories about degeneracy? In his 1936 supplement to “Studies in the Psychology of Sex” he said #OralSex, #SAndM, #kink, #BDSM & #FetishPlay were normal & okay. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #HistSex
#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
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
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
