physician and psychologist
, writer, and social reformer who studied human sexuality. He was co-author of the first medical textbook in English on homosexuality
in 1897, and also published works on a variety of sexual practices and inclinations, including transgender
psychology. He is credited with introducing the notions of narcissism
and autoeroticism
, later adopted by psychoanalysis
.
The omnipresent process of sex, as it is woven into the whole texture of our man's or woman's body, is the pattern of all the process of our life.
" 'Homosexual' is a barbarously hybrid word, and I claim no responsibility for it.
Every artist writes his own autobiography.
If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth.
There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself.
Had there been a lunatic asylum in the suburbs of Jerusalem, Jesus Christ would infallibly have been shut up in it at the outset of his public career. That interview with Satan on the pinnacle of the Temple would alone have damned him, and everything that happened after could but have confirmed the diagnosis.
The text of the Bible is but a feeble symbol of the Revelation held in the text of Men and Women.
The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.
It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in Man for his nearest ancestors and relations. If only Darwin could conscientiously have traced man back to the Elephant or the Lion or the Antelope, how much ridicule and prejudice would have been spared to the doctrine of Evolution.
The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities...A life is beautiful and ideal, or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship.