Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4
Sexual Selection In Man
This fourth volume of Havelock Ellis's Studies in the Psychology of Sex, first published in 1905, is devoted to sexual selection in human beings, the question of what draws one person to another. Ellis takes the senses in turn. Touch, the oldest and most diffuse, leads him to tickling and the kiss; smell, to the role of perfume and body odor; hearing, to voice and music; and vision, the most developed, to the history of ideals of beauty and the preference for likeness or contrast in a partner. As in the rest of the series, he gathers evidence from anthropology, medicine and literature, writing in a sober, inquiring tone that was radical for its time. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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