In his pamphlets, Kertbeny argued that the Prussian sodomy law, Paragraph 143 (which later became Paragraph 175 of the penal code of the German Empire), violated the "rights of man."
U svom pamfletu, Kertbenj tvrdi da je pruski zakon o sodomiji, Paragraf 143 (koji je kasnije postao Paragraf 175 krivičnog zakona Nemačkog carstva), prekršio "prava čoveka".