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The word "homosexual" is a Greek and Latin hybrid, with the first element derived from Greek ὁμός "homos", "same" (not related to the Latin "homo", "man", as in "Homo sapiens"), thus connoting sexual acts and affections between members of the same sex, including lesbianism. The first known appearance of "homosexual" in print is found in an 1869 German pamphlet by the Austrian-born novelist Karl-Maria Kertbeny, published anonymously, arguing against a Prussian anti-sodomy law. In 1886, the psychiatrist Richard von Krafft-Ebing used the terms "homosexual" and "heterosexual" in his book "Psychopathia Sexualis". Krafft-Ebing's book was so popular among both laymen and doctors that the terms "heterosexual" and "homosexual" became the most widely accepted terms for sexual orientation. As such, the current use of the term has its roots in the broader 19th-century tradition of personality taxonomy.
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