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Under most common law legal systems, the term buggery refers to a criminal offense and has a specific legal meaning. In English law, "buggery" was first used in the Buggery Act 1533, while Section 61 of the Offences against the Person Act 1861, entitled "Sodomy and Bestiality", defined punishments for "the abominable Crime of Buggery, committed either with Mankind or with any Animal". Neither Act defined what constituted buggery. Over the years the courts have defined buggery as including either:
1. anal intercourse by a man with a man or woman,[1] or
2. vaginal intercourse by either a man or a woman with an animal,[2]
but not any other form of "unnatural intercourse".[3][4]
At common law consent was not a defense;[5] nor was the fact that the parties were married.[6] As with the crime of rape, buggery required that penetration must have occurred, but ejaculation is not necessary.[7]
Most common law jurisdictions have now modified the law to permit anal sex between consenting adults.[8] Hong Kong did so retroactively in 1990, barring prosecution for "crimes against nature" committed before the Crimes (Amendment) Ordinance 1990 entered into force except those that would still have constituted a crime if they had been done thereafter. In the United Kingdom, heterosexual buggery was decriminalised in 1996.
In the UK the punishment for buggery was reduced from hanging to life imprisonment in 1861.
| I thought buggery would be riding in a buggy.
On the comedy channel there was a show with a horse raper in it, so I now know art does imitate life. |