According to the official rationale, Paragraph 175 was amended in the interest of the moral health of the Volk – the German people – because "according to experience" homosexuality "inclines toward plague-like propagation" and exerts "a ruinous influence" on the "circles concerned".
根據官方的解釋，第175條的修改是為維護"Volk"(德國人民)的道德健康，因為“根據經驗”，同性戀“偏向像瘟疫一樣地演化”，對“有關團體圈子”造成“破壞性的影響”。