The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.
Havelock EllisThe second great channel through which the impulse towards the control of procreation for the elevation of the race is entering into practical life is by the general adoption, by the educatedโof methods for the prevention of conception except when conception is deliberately desired.
Havelock EllisIn the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists.
Havelock EllisCourtship, 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.
Havelock Ellis