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I love this thread. Excellent work!
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Thanks for the comments - they mean a lot .

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PART EIGHT: SEXUAL LIBERATORS


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XXXIII - Henry Havelock Ellis, Sexologist

Welcome back!

This time, we are on the trail of one of London’s prodigal sons from the Victorian Era. Some seventy years before it was legalised, Henry Havelock Ellis was one of the first people in Britain to write about homosexuality in objective, non-judgemental terms. In return his work was demonised, and in 1897 a bookseller was prosecuted for selling a copy.

Some of Havelock Ellis’ ideas are beyond the pale even today. He was, for example, a supporter of eugenics, and in 1916 he published a book called “Social Hygiene”, which contains the chilling lines:

“The superficially sympathetic man flings a coin to the beggar; the more deeply sympathetic man builds an almshouse for him so that he need no longer beg; but perhaps the most radically sympathetic of all is the man who arranges that the beggar shall not be born.”

Ironically, his memory is preserved in the middle of one of the most socially diverse neighbourhoods in the entire country. Brixton, whatever its problems, is gloriously free of Social Hygiene.



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XXXIV - DH Lawrence

” Then she quivered as she felt his hand groping softly, yet with queer thwarted clumsiness, among her clothing. Yet the hand knew, too, how to unclothe her where it wanted. He drew down the thin silk sheath, slowly, carefully, right down and over her feet. Then with a quiver of exquisite pleasure he touched the warm soft body, and touched her navel for a moment in a kiss. And he had to come in to her at once, to enter the peace on earth of her soft, quiescent body. It was the moment of pure peace for him, the entry into the body of the woman.”

Hardly very racy by today’s standards, but between 1928 and 1960 it was enough to get Lady Chatterley’s Lover banned. In the trial that ended the ban, the prosecutor, Mervyn Griffith-Jones famously asked the jury, “Is it a book you would wish your wife or servants to read?".

Apparently it was. The public lapped it up – when the book finally went on sale a queue of 400 people lined Charring Cross Road outside Foyles bookshop. Recalling a trip to a motorway service station, the 6th Earl of Craven seethed:

“there, at every serving counter, sat a snigger of youths. Every one had a copy of the book held up to his face with one hand, while he forked nourishment into his open mouth with the other. They held the seeds of suggestive lust, which was expressed quite blatantly by glance and remark...”

So, in return for being muzzled by the censor for three decades, DH Lawrence makes it into our prodigal band.


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XXXV - Oscar Wilde

Over a century since Oscar Wilde served two years’ hard labour for homosexuality, his decomposing figure re-emerges in Covent Garden from a coffin-shaped bench, offering to engage passers-by in conversation.

Wilde once said, ‘biography lends to death a new terror’, so I’ll spare him one here. It’s fair to say, though, that of all our sexual pioneers, he suffered by far the most. Wandsworth prison’s regime was so harsh that at one point he collapsed from illness and hunger. On another occasion, a prisoner whispered to him, “ I am sorry for you: it is harder for the likes of you than it is for the likes of us." Wilde replied, “No, my friend, we all suffer alike.” His reply was overhead, and since talking was prohibited, he spent three days in solitary confinement with bread and water.

Knowing this, it seems especially right that this monument, in the middle of the city that condemned him, restores his powers of speech.




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I must get myself down to the big smoke haven't been for years and it's only just over 2 hours from lime street .Anyway great photos of London, i always feel like i am abroad when visiting.
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Thanks for the update.I love Brixton.Last there at the Academy for the Chemical
Brothers and probaly the 414 till the early hours.
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Thanks! Toyota - Brixton has a definite edge to it (without being a depressing hell hole) that is not quite like any other part of London I've been to.

More shots to come on the next page, after the filler....
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