Career
She published books on women"s sexuality and health among other topics. Her last known public appearance was in 1930 in Vienna, where she gave a talk at a conference organised by the World League for Sexual Reform. She was open about her own homosexuality which made her a somewhat exceptional figure in the feminist movement of her time.
Her career as an activist was ended in 1933, when the Nazi Party rose to power.
Based on the assumption that women"s libido only exists in order to secure the creation of offspring and is therefore fundamentally different from men"s libido, Elberskirchen argued that: "If it was the yearning for a child, there would be no abortion, no infanticide, no suicide. In that case the awful punitive articles wouldn"t exist.