Norman Haire

Norman Haire (1940s)

Norman Haire (born January 21, 1892 in Sydney , † September 11, 1952 in London ) was an Australian doctor and sex reformer who worked in Great Britain.

Life

Norman Zions grew up as the eleventh child in a Jewish family who Anglicized their surname Zając when they immigrated to Australia , in Sydney's working-class district of Paddington . When he went to Great Britain as a specialist in gynecology in 1920 after studying medicine at the University of Sydney in 1915 , he changed his name to Norman Haire (hare = "Zając" = "rabbit"), which was the British colleague and Haire's role model, Havelock Ellis , who cultivated aristocratic upper -class anti-Semitism , did not look after him. In London he got a job at the "Walworth Women's Welfare Center", which was opened by the Malthusian League and was the first to deal with contraception in Great Britain at the time, and later opened another clinic himself in a London slum, where sexual counseling was also carried out. Haire gave public lectures on issues of anatomy, physiology and hygiene related to sexuality. The target group were women and men of the working class, who could hear the lectures separately according to sex.

He had made his social rise in 1925 when he was able to open a private practice on London's Doctors' Street , Harley Street . William Butler Yeats was refreshed there in 1934 using the method propagated by Haire from Eugen Steinach and benefited at least from the placebo effect of the rejuvenation operation .

On Ellis' recommendation, Haire was accepted into the British Society for the Study of Sex Psychology, a camouflaged gay organization founded by George Cecil Ives . Haire was considered homosexual, but there is no comment from himself on this . In 1923 Haire began the scientific exchange with Magnus Hirschfeld in Berlin , for which he also learned the German language.

Haire was elected a board member of the World League for Sex Reform and organized its third congress in London in 1929. Haire revised a number of sexual studies writings and was a successful sexological non-fiction book author, especially with the Encyclopaedia of sexual knowledge , which was adapted from the French by Arthur Koestler in 1934 , and thus contributed to the spread of sexual knowledge in the western states. Haire did not, however, deviate from his advocacy of forced sterilization in questions of eugenics .

After the outbreak of the Second World War , Haire fled the German bombs on London to Australia, where he met resistance with his political views on population policy, but was successful with a sex column in the weekly Woman under the pseudonym "Wykeham Terriss". In 1946 he was back in London. Haire was diabetic and obese, which may have contributed to his untimely death.

Haire's estate went to the University of Sydney Library.

Fonts (selection)

• Norman Haire; Eugen Steinach; Serge Voronoff: Rejuvenation, the work of Steinach, Voronoff, and others , London, G. Allen & Unwin Ltd. 1924
• Hymen, or the future of marriage. , London, Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1927
• Encyclopaedia of sexual knowledge , London Aldor, 1934
• Magnus Hirschfeld; John Rodker; Norman Haire: Sex in human relationships , London Lane 1935
• Wykeham Terriss: Sex talks , Sydney: Vanguard Publications, 1946.

• Everyday sex problems , London, Muller, 1948
• Norman Haire; A. Graaf; F. Lehner: Gender and Love Today: The Sexual Life of Modern Man , Munich: List, 1965
• Preliminary report on the Haire pessary and the intrauterine silver ring , Vienna, Elbemühl, 1931

Journal articles (selection)

In: The Socialist Doctor

• The sexual question in England. 7th year (1931), issue 10 (October), pp. 276–278 digitized

literature

• Volkmar Sigusch , Günter Grau (ed.): Personal Lexicon of Sexual Research , Campus, Frankfurt a. M. 2009, pp. 251-255 ISBN 978-3-593-39049-9

Web links

• Literature by and about Norman Haire in the catalog of the German National Library
• Norman Haire at the Australian Dictionary of Biography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ World League for Sexual Reform at DNB
2. ^ Ivan Crozier, "All the World's a Stage": Dora Russell, Norman Haire, and the 1929 London World League for Sexual Reform Congress , Journal for the History of Sexuality , 01/2003
3. ↑ Guide to the Norman Haire Collection, bulk 1926 - 1950 ( Memento of the original from March 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.