ABSTRACT
Internationally renowned sexologist Havelock Ellis announced A Thousand Marriages: A Medical Study of Sex Adjustment with his usual earnestness, praising it as a “searching and comprehensive” investigation of “sex activities and sex relations among fairly normal people” (Ellis 1931, xi, ix). 1 Only the third English-language work to address what Ellis called “normal civilized conditions” of erotic life, A Thousand Marriages broke new ground by basing its arguments on extensive clinical observations of the sexual body (ix). 2 The racial body was of concern to him as well; in the same breath, Ellis noted that all three studies in the emerging sexology of the normal were carried out by Anglo-Saxons. 3
