Straight vs. Gay Age of Consent: The Difference - Pri Legal

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• STRAIGHT VS. GAY AGE OF CONSENT: THE DIFFERENCE
• DEMOCRAT LEGISLATOR WANTS TO CRIMALIZE GAY SEX BETWEEN YOUNG ADULTS AND MORS SOME S
• THE 1970S: GAY ACTIVISM AND THE SEXUALY OF MORS8IN THE EARLY 1970S, THE LEGAL SEXUAL MAJORY FRANCE AND CANADA HAD A PARABLE STCTURE. THE LAW SET A GENERAL AGE OF NSENT (15 FRANCE, 14 CANADA) AND PROVID FOR A SPECIAL REGIME THE SE OF HOMOSEXUAL RELATNS (21 BOTH S). SEEN AS A THREAT TO YOUTH AND MORALY, HOMOSEXUALS WERE STIGMATIZED BOTH UNTRI. IN 1960, THE FRENCH NATNAL ASSEMBLY ADOPTED THE MIRGUET AMENDMENT, WHICH CLASSIFIED HOMOSEXUALY AS A “SOCIAL SURGE” AND PLACED A LIST OF “SURG”, CLUDG ALHOLISM, TUBERCULOSIS AND PROSTUTN. SEVERAL MONTHS LATER, THIS AMENDMENT WAS FOLLOWED BY A DOUBLG OF THE SENTENC CURRED FOR PUBLIC CENCY “WHEN NSISTS OF AN ACT AGAST NATURE WH AN DIVIDUAL OF THE SAME SEX”. A 1954 REFORM OF THE CANADIAN CRIMAL CO EXPAND THE TEGORY OF THOSE SUFFERG OM “SEXUAL PSYCHOPATHOLOGY” TO CLU DIVIDUALS SENTENCED FOR “GROSS CENCY”, THEREBY RENRG THEM LIABLE TO AN TERMATE PERD OF TENTN KEEPG WH A 1949 LAW. [14] IN THE EARLY 1970S, THE FIRST GAY POLIL MOBILIZATNS ATTACKED THE LEGAL NORMS, THE SOCIAL REPRENTATNS THAT LEGIMATED THEM AND THE REPRSIVE PRACTIC WHICH THEY RULTED.EXPERIMENTATN GROUPS

STRAIGHT VS. GAY AGE OF CONSENT: THE DIFFERENCE

The laws on homosexualy and heterosexualyPARLIAMENT UK, 2012; NCBI, 2012The legal age of sexual nsent for heterosexuals the UK is 16.

The Sexual Offenc Act 1967 ma chang so that homosexual men over the age of 21 uld have sexual relatnships, 1994 a further change saw rced to those aged over Sexual Offenc (Amendment) Act 2000 ma the ag of legal nsent for heterosexuals and homosexuals equal and the legal age of nsent for homosexual people was changed to 16.

DEMOCRAT LEGISLATOR WANTS TO CRIMALIZE GAY SEX BETWEEN YOUNG ADULTS AND MORS SOME S

The Sexual Offenc Act 1967 partially crimalised “homosexual acts” – “buggery” and “gross cency” – England and Wal between two nsentg mal private of or over 21 years of age.

The mimum age of 21 for gay sex was proposed by the “Wolfenn Report”, published 1957 which looked to “homosexual offenc and prostutn” and reflected the then age of majory. In 1975, a man who was imprisoned beme the first person to pla to the (now abolished) European Commissn of Human Rights about the higher age of nsent for gay sex England and Wal. The Commissn cid that fixg the mimum age of nsent for gay sex at 21 was jtified to protect the rights of others – namely younger men unr 21 – and did not vlate the European Conventn on Human Rights (ECHR).

THE 1970S: GAY ACTIVISM AND THE SEXUALY OF MORS8IN THE EARLY 1970S, THE LEGAL SEXUAL MAJORY FRANCE AND CANADA HAD A PARABLE STCTURE. THE LAW SET A GENERAL AGE OF NSENT (15 FRANCE, 14 CANADA) AND PROVID FOR A SPECIAL REGIME THE SE OF HOMOSEXUAL RELATNS (21 BOTH S). SEEN AS A THREAT TO YOUTH AND MORALY, HOMOSEXUALS WERE STIGMATIZED BOTH UNTRI. IN 1960, THE FRENCH NATNAL ASSEMBLY ADOPTED THE MIRGUET AMENDMENT, WHICH CLASSIFIED HOMOSEXUALY AS A “SOCIAL SURGE” AND PLACED A LIST OF “SURG”, CLUDG ALHOLISM, TUBERCULOSIS AND PROSTUTN. SEVERAL MONTHS LATER, THIS AMENDMENT WAS FOLLOWED BY A DOUBLG OF THE SENTENC CURRED FOR PUBLIC CENCY “WHEN NSISTS OF AN ACT AGAST NATURE WH AN DIVIDUAL OF THE SAME SEX”. A 1954 REFORM OF THE CANADIAN CRIMAL CO EXPAND THE TEGORY OF THOSE SUFFERG OM “SEXUAL PSYCHOPATHOLOGY” TO CLU DIVIDUALS SENTENCED FOR “GROSS CENCY”, THEREBY RENRG THEM LIABLE TO AN TERMATE PERD OF TENTN KEEPG WH A 1949 LAW. [14] IN THE EARLY 1970S, THE FIRST GAY POLIL MOBILIZATNS ATTACKED THE LEGAL NORMS, THE SOCIAL REPRENTATNS THAT LEGIMATED THEM AND THE REPRSIVE PRACTIC WHICH THEY RULTED.EXPERIMENTATN GROUPS

The Crimal Jtice (Stland) Act 1980 partially crimalised gay sex Stland, siar terms to England and Wal (although Stland “sodomy” rather than “buggery” was an offence) wh a mimum age of 21.