Havelock Ellis

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Ellis, Mr. H. Havelock FRCP

<blockquote >24 Holmdene Ave., Herne Hill, London SE24, 1937

Eugenics Society Member 1907-1939 (Fellow 1937) V.P. 1909-11 Council 1916 Consultative Council 1937 First International Eugenics Congress 1912, General Committee

Sexologist; wrote Sex in Relation to Society. 1937 (Defended Hitler's racial law: " if properly administered, it has no relation to 'Aryan' aspirations")

Personal: b. Croyden, London 1859; d. July 8, 1939

Women:

affair with Olive Schreiner; m. Edith Lees who died in 1916; "affair" with Margaret Sanger ( "...her mentor and lover, Havelock Ellis, was the beloved disciple of Francis Galton, the brilliant cousin of Charles Darwin...", from Grand Illusions., George Grant, p. 53, and p. 91)

Women and Urolagia:

met Mme. Francois Cyon who wrote Friendship's Odyssey by Francois DeLisle (pen name); "he followed me (into the toilet, ed. note) to minister himself to my needs ... Of the full meaning of his delicate attention I was then ignorant ... If urolagia became clearer to me in time, suffice it here to say that, on this first day of closer friendship, it proved mysteriously soothing to my soul."(from Friendship's Odyssey by Francois DeLisle); "he enjoyed married happiness with (Francois Cyon) before his death" from article in Collier's Encyclopediaby Arthur Calder Marshall; Ellis called urolagia, 'the sacrament', and shared it with Margaret Sanger. ( see Havelock Ellis. 1981, Phyllis Grosskurth)

British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) and Havelock Ellis:

Havelock Ellis adopted Francois Lafitte, Francois De Lisle's son. Lafitte became the British Pregnancy Advisory Service chairman.

Lafitte was associated with The Institute of Sex Education and Research because he was Chairman of the BPAS from 1968 -1988 while the BPAS was in partnership with the Institute till 1973.

Pubns:

Sex:

Ellis is best known now for his sexology books, e.g., The Psychology of Sex. 1933; Studies in the Psychology of Sex; More Essays of Love and Virtue. (When Alger Hiss went on his honeymoon, he took with him some of Havelock Ellis's books.)

Race:

He also wrote a great deal on race, eugenics and sterilisation. e.g. "The Sterilisation of the Unfit", ER 1909; The Problems of Race Regeneration.1911 ('persuade' the 'unfit'to 'volunteer' for sterilisation by withdrawing Poor Relief from those who refused such 'persuasion was the theme of Frederick Osborn's "new eugenics" in 1956 and see the arguments for a welfare cap in USA in 1990's); The Task of Social Hygiene.1912; and he wrote a monthly column in Margaret Sanger's Birth Control Review

Source: CH, ESAR 1937, <a href="https://archive.is/o/GezM3/homepages.enterprise.net/toolan/hitler/index.html" >Men Behind Hitler</a>, p. 87, WSW 1990; A Sage of Sex: A Life of Havelock Ellis. Arthur Calder-Marshall (New York 1959); ER 1909-11; Problems in Eugenics 1912 (repr.)

Destruction of the Unfit:

Speaking of the false teaching of the Pharisees, Christ said "Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down and cast into the fire." This quote was popular among eugenicists, who saw it as a justification of their theories of extermination, rather than as a warning against false teaching. Ellis said: "there can be no compunction in his (Christ's) promulgation of this radical yet necessary doctrine of the destruction of unfit stocks.", from The Dance of Life. 1923

Eugenic Strategy:

Speaking of sterilisation, Blacker claims Ellis said: "...It was the business... of the lawyers to find ambiguities and uncertainties in the law. He urged the Society to try by all the means at its disposal to encourage the judicious employment of voluntary sterilisation and thereby get it accepted as part of normal medical practice rather than challenge the organised forces of the opposition by seeking to legalise it by Act of Parliament ... Many unnecessary and unwieldy safeguards might be introduced ... red tape ... that the result would ... be to 'sterilise sterilisation'... Mature consideration of Dr. Havelock Ellis's contentions in this matter has convinced me of their funda mental soundness. An approach is now being made along lines of which he would have approved." (C.P. Blacker q.v., from Obit ER 1939, Vol. 31, no. 2)</blockquote>

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