Havelock Ellis - Sexual Quotes

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Failing to find in women exactly the same kind of sexual emotions, as they find in themselves, men have concluded that there are none there at all.

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The sexual embrace, worthily understood, can only be compared with music and with prayer.

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'Auto erotism,'..spontaneous solitary sexual phenomena of which genital excitement during sleep may be said to be the type.

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At the present day the crude theory of the sexual impulse held on one side, and the ignorant rejection of theory altogether on the other side, are beginning to be seen as both alike unjustified.

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Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has often known nothing.

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The modesty of women, which, in its most primitive form among animals, is based on sexual periodicity, is, with that periodicity, an essential condition of courtship.

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Sexual pleasure, wisely used and not abused, may prove the stimulus and liberator of our finest and most exalted activities.

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Aesthetic values are changed under the influence of sexual emotion; from the lover's point of view many things are beautiful which are unbeautiful from the point of view of him who is not a lover, and the greater the degree to which the lover is swayed by his passion the greater the extent to which his normal aesthetic standard is liable to be modified.

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Courtship, properly understood, is the process whereby both the male and the female are brought into that state of sexual tumescence which is a more or less necessary condition for sexual intercourse. The play of courtship cannot, therefore, be considered to be definitely brought to an end by the ceremony of marriage; it may more properly be regarded as the natural preliminary to every act of coitus.

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