The Resume

(February 2, 1859-July 8, 1939)
Born in Croydon, England, United Kingdom
Birth name was Henry Havelock Ellis
Wrote the seven-volume 'Studies in the Psychology of Sex' (1897-1928)

Why he might be annoying:

He was an expert on sex who was a virgin until age 60.
After his book 'Sexual Inversion' was declared obscene by a British court, he would publish his work only in Germany and the US.
He married Edith Lees without telling her that he was impotent.
He was sexually aroused by women urinating.
He advocated eugenics and refused to condemn the Nazi program of forced sterilizations.

Why he might not be annoying:

Because of his own sexual quirks, he was very tolerant towards those of other people.
He went against prevailing Victorian opinions, declaring that masturbation was harmless and that homosexuality was not a disease, immoral nor a crime.
He gave free advice on sex to anyone who asked and never understood why Sigmund Freud charged patients for the same help.

Credit: C. Fishel

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• C. Fishel's Profiles [Series 03]
• Cracked's 5 Sex Experts Who Made the World a Worse Place (To Do It)
• Eminent Victorians
• Eugenics Supporters
• I Abused Peyote
• I Died in 1939 (Ranked: 80)
• Known By a Middle Name
• Open Marriages
• Profiles 19751-20000 (Ranked: 19959)
• Sex Professors
• Teachers
• Unconsummated Marriages
• Wizard Beards

Year In Review:

For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 5 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2023, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 3 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 8 Votes: 75.00% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 3 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 32 Votes: 53.12% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 4 Votes: 75.00% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 5 Votes: 80.0% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 11 Votes: 54.55% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 32 Votes: 34.38% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 13 Votes: 53.85% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 14 Votes: 64.29% Annoying
In 2012, Out of 21 Votes: 57.14% Annoying
In 2011, Out of 8 Votes: 87.50% Annoying
In 2010, Out of 20 Votes: 55.00% Annoying
In 2009, Out of 28 Votes: 46.43% Annoying
In 2008, Out of 43 Votes: 53.49% Annoying
In 2007, Out of 71 Votes: 74.65% Annoying