STUDIES IN THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SEX, VOLUME I

The Evolution of Modesty
The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity
Auto-Erotism

by

HAVELOCK ELLIS

1927







GENERAL PREFACE.


The origin of these _Studies_ dates from many years back. As a youth I was
faced, as others are, by the problem of sex. Living partly in an
Australian city where the ways of life were plainly seen, partly in the
solitude of the bush, I was free both to contemplate and to meditate many
things. A resolve slowly grew up within me: one main part of my life-work
should be to make clear the problems of sex.

That was more than twenty years ago. Since then I can honestly say that in
all that I have done that resolve has never been very far from my