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Ellis, Havelock
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Ellis, (Henry) Havelock (1859–1939)

English psychologist and writer of many works on the psychology of sex. His major work, Studies in the Psychology of Sex (seven volumes, 1898–1928), was for many years published only in the USA after a UK bookseller was prosecuted in 1898 for stocking it.

He trained as a physician, and was also a literary critic and essayist.



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18 Sexual Inversion by Havelock Ellis and John Addington Symonds, Amo Press
Havelock Ellis "apparently" had a much more "charitable approach" than other doctors.
It was an obscure Hungarian physician, Karoly Benkert, who first coined and used ``homosexuality'' in 1869 to express this belief and it was though Havelock Ellis, an English sexologist of the late 19th century, that it came into English.
 
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