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Emma Trosse
zij/haar1863 – 1949
German educator Emma Trosse was the first woman to write a scientific work on sexual diversity. It was in that work that she also addressed the existence of asexuality. She identified as asexual herself.
Photo credits
Portrait “Emma Trosse aka Emma Külz-Trosse”
Year: Unknown
Collection: Kreis-Ahrweiler
Photographer: Unknown
Book cover “Ist freie liebe Sittenlosigkeit?”
Year: 1897
Collection: München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
Book cover “Konträrsexualismus”
Year: 1895
Collection: München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
German educator Emma Trosse was the first woman to write a scientific work on sexual diversity. It was in that work that she also addressed the existence of asexuality. She identified as asexual herself.