Great find, and thanks for sharing! I see the author also clarifies a much-debated point in salon: "Sodomie" was originally used in German for sexual transgressions in general, as it was in other European languages, which means its meaning only became narrowed to 'bestiality' later.

But...how many pages of this essay can you Germans see? Maybe it's because of regional restrictions, but I can only see 4 pages, 217-220, and unless almost everything you mention is in the footnotes, which I admit I haven't yet read all of, I'm not seeing it in those first 4 pages. The table of contents page that would tell me how long the essay is, is also not in the preview. I suspect it's substantially longer than 4 pages and I'm missing most of it.

Off topic: I was going to share some Russian gossipy sensationalism from my current reading, but this weekend I'm on my first good German-studying streak in a while, so I'm going to run with it as long as it lasts. I'll just say that Montefiore and Massie are both A+ for readability, and the Catherine+Potemkin bio is on my German reading list after Zweig, but meanwhile I'm reading other Montefiore and Massie works in English and very much enjoying myself. Thanks again for the recs, selenak! (Will try the Winter Queen at some point, currently focused on Russia.)