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1836:  Hössli Publishes Eros Swiss hat-maker and interior designer Heinrich Hössli (1784-1864)  published a two volume work to defend sex between males as it was practiced in ancient Greece.  Hössli's was the first European voice to defend same-sex love, though the pederastic model he advocated was eventually displaced by the androphilic model first clearly articulated by Karl Heinrich Ulrichs. Hössli as a young man

Photo Credits: "Hoessli as a Young Man" is reproduced from a photograph in the Jahrbuch für Sexualzwischenstufen, vol. 5, 1903, courtesy of the Archiv für Sexualwissenschaft, Berlin.
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