Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3, credited to Havelock Ellis, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 by Havelock Ellis. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. Volume 3: Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain In the study of Love and Pain I have discussed the sources of those aberrations which are commonly called, not altogether happily, "sadism" and "masochism." Here we are brought before the most extreme and perhaps the most widely known group of sexual perversions. I have considered them from the medico-legal standpoint, because that has already been done by other writers whose works are accessible. I have preferred to show how these aberrations may be explained; how they may be linked on to normal and fundamental aspects of the sexual impulse; and, indeed, in their elementary forms, may themselves be regarded as normal. In some degree they are present, in every case, at some point of sexual development; their threads are subtly woven in and out of the whole psychological process of sex. I have made no attempt to reduce their complexity to a simplicity that would be fallacious. I hope that my attempt to unravel these long and tangled threads will be found to make them fairly clear. In the third study, on The Sexual Impulse in Women, we approach a practical question of applied sexual psychology, and a question of the first importance. No doubt the sex impulse in men is of great moment from the social point of view. It is, however, fairly obvious and well understood. The impulse in women is not only of at least equal moment, but it is far more obscure. The natural difficulties of the subject have been increased by the assumption of most writers who have touched it—casually and hurriedly, for the most part—that the only differences to be sought in the sexual impulse in man and in woman are quantitative differences. I have pointed out that we may more profitably seek for qualitative differences, and have endeavored to indicate such of these differences as seem to be of significance. - Summary by Havelock Ellis

Recording facts

• Recording title: Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3
• Author credits: Havelock Ellis
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 22
• Listed recording duration: 13:21:48

Catalogue topics

• women
• psychology
• sex
• human behavior
• medical
• behavior
• clinical

Track guide

1. 01 - Preface to Second Edition — 1:51
2. 02 - Preface to the First Edition — 5:02
3. 03 - Analysis of the Sexual Impulse, Part 1 — 58:07
4. 04 - Analysis of the Sexual Impulse, Part 2 — 35:07
5. 05 - Analysis of the Sexual Impulse, Part 3 — 54:04
6. 06 - Love and Pain I, Part 1 — 41:59
7. 07 - Love and Pain I, Part 2 — 50:23
8. 08 - Love and Pain II — 58:10
9. 09 - Love and Pain III — 52:08
10. 10 - Love and Pain IV — 16:28
11. 11 - Love and Pain V — 24:58
12. 12 - Love and Pain VI — 26:37
13. 13 - Love and Pain VII — 8:48
14. 14 - Sexual Impulse in Women — 6:51
15. 15 - Sexual Impulse in Women I, Part 1 — 41:33
16. 16 - Sexual Impulse in Women I, Part 2 — 49:27
17. 17 - Sexual Impulse in Women II — 1:07:06
18. 18 - Sexual Impulse in Women III — 2:25
19. 19 - Appendix A: The Sexual Instinct in Savages — 28:42
20. 20 - Appendix B: The Development of the Sexual Instinct — 54:36
21. 21 - Appendix B: The Development of the Sexual Instinct, Continued — 58:41
22. 22 - Appendix B: The Development of the Sexual Instinct, Concluded — 58:45

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