Edward Charles


Edward Charles Edmond Hemsted , better known by the pen name Edward Charles, was an English author, educator, social advocate and sexologist.
His most famous writings are The Sexual Impulse, Mens Gods, Those Thoughtful People, Sand & the Blue Moss, Apple Pie Bed, Indian Patchwork, Portrait of the Artist's Children and Idle Hands.

Life

He was educated at Lancing College, St John's College, University of Oxford and Louvain University. During the early 1920s, he was a Professor of English in Japan, then a Professor at the University of Peking. He sailed to Singapore on a tramp steamer, and worked as a barman at the "Long Bar" of the Raffles Hotel, before returning to Oxford. He later moved to India and served as principal of a Moslem-Hindu school in central India from 1927–1928. He also taught in the US. In 1935, he was involved in a major trial involving the publication of his work, The Sexual Impulse.
He was a major proponent of sexology, and in particular the promotion of contraception.

Works