Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life.
Havelock EllisCivilized men arrived in the Pacific, armed with alcohol, syphilis, trousers, and the Bible.
Havelock EllisFailing 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.
Havelock EllisThe sexual regions constitute a particularly vulnerable spot, and remain so even in man, and the need for their protection which thus exists conflicts with the prominent display required for sexual allurement. This end is far more effectively attained, with greater advantage and less disadvantage, by concentrating the chief ensigns of sexual attractiveness on the upper and more conspicuous parts of the body. This method is well-nigh universal among animals as well as in man.
Havelock Ellis