Karl Heinrich Ulrichs

"Until my dying day I will look back with pride that I found the courage to come face to face in battle against the spectre which for time immemorial has been injecting poison into me and into men of m…"

"A physical-mental characteristic of mine is a certain passive magnetism of the animal world... The mental-physical passive animal magnetism mentioned is passive, not active, for the reason that the pe…"

"The Urning is not by a hair’s breadth any more dangerous to immature boys than the genuine man is to immature girls. For the rest, I gladly leave the child molester to his deserved punishment by the l…"

"Until now science has not sought to investigate this passive animal magnetism , although the doctor, the anthropologist and physiologist, the jurist, the psychologist, and the moralist could cultivate…"

"The prohibition of the expression of the sex drive, i.e., between consenting adults in private, lies outside the legal sphere."