British Society for the Study of Sex Psychology

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The British Society for the Study of Sex Psychology (BSSSP) was founded in 1913, "to advance a particularly radical agenda in the field of sex reform, based on the writings of gurus such as [Edward] Carpenter and [Havelock] Ellis."[1] Magnus Hirschfeld, the famous German-Jewish sexologist, was also a co-founder.[2] In 1931, the Society was renamed the British Sexological Society.[3] It seems to have continued until some point in the 1940s.

The society was particularly concerned with

Abortion Law Reform Association), Laurence Housman, Havelock Ellis, Bernard Shaw, and Ernest Jones.[4]

The society had established a number of contacts in the United States, including Margaret Sanger, who gave a speech to the group on the issue of sexual continence.[5] The BSSSP had planned to form an American branch.[6]

Publications of the BSSSP

The Society published a series of pamphlets:

  • No. 1. Policy & principles, general aims, London: C.W. Beaumont for the Society, [1914].
  • No. 2. The social problem of sexual inversion, London: Beaumont, [1913?]. Abridged translation from the German treatise... published under the auspices of the Humanitarian-Science Committee (Wissenschaftlich-humanitären [sic] Komitee) of Leipzig and Berlin in 1903.
  • No. 3. Stella Browne, Sexual variety & variability among women and their bearing upon social reconstruction, London: Printed for the Society by C.W. Beaumont, 1917.
  • No. 4. Laurence Housman, The relation of fellow-feeling to sex, London: Printed for the Society by Battley Bros, [1917?].
  • No. 5. Havelock Ellis, The erotic rights of women, and The objects of marriage: two essays, Battersea: Battley Bros. for the Society, 1918.
  • No. 6. Montague Summers, The Marquis de Sade: a study in algolagnia, London: Battley Bros. for the Society, 1920.
  • No. 7. Hugh Northcote, The Social Value of the Study of Sex Psychology, London, 1920.
  • No. 8.
    Edward Westermarck
    , The origin of sexual modesty, London: J. E. Francis for the Society, 1921.
  • No. 9. Havelock Ellis, The play-function of sex, London: J. E. Francis for the Society, 1921.
  • No, 10. Eden Paul, The sexual life of the child, London: J. E. Francis for the Society, 1921.
  • No. 11. Eden Paul & Norman Haire, Rejuvenation: Steinach's researches on the sex-glands, London: J. E. Francis for the Society, 1923.
  • No. 12. Harold Picton, The morbid, the abnormal and the personal, London: J. E. Francis for the Society, 1923.
  • No. 13. Edward Carpenter, Some friends of Walt Whitman, etc., London: J. E. Francis for the Society, 1924.
  • No. 14. Francis Albert Eley Crew, Sexuality and intersexuality, London: J. E. Francis for the Society, 1925.
  • No. 15. H. D. J. White, Psychological causes of homoerotism & inversion, London: J. E. Francis for the Society, 1925.
  • No. 16. Cecil Reddie, Edward Carpenter, 1844 born at Brighton, died at Guildford 1929 : one of the founders and the first president of the Society, London: British Sexological Society, 1932.
  • No. 17. Frank Braine Rockstro, A plain talk on sex difficulties, etc., London: British Sexological Society, 1933.

See also

References

  1. ^ Lesley A. Hall, '"Disinterested Enthusiasm for Sexual Misconduct": The British Society for the Study of Sex Psychology, 1913-47', Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 30, No. 4 (Oct. 1995), pp.665-686
  2. ^ British Sexological Society: An Inventory of Its Records at the Harry Ransom Center
  3. ^
    Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center
  4. ^ David C. Weigle, 'Psychology and homosexuality: The British Sexological Society', Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 31:2 (April 1995), p.137-148
  5. ISBN 978-0-8135-6212-4
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  6. ISBN 0-87810-027-X
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