No uncomplicated sex, please, we’re British

No uncomplicated sex, please, we’re British
: The British have passed a sex law. Public sex was going to be outlawed, but it isn’t (who do they think they are, French?).

The proposed legislation sweeps away offences such as buggery, gross indecency and soliciting by men. Ministers have conceded that men having sex in a public lavatory – “cottaging” – could have avoided prosecution if they were in a cubicle with the door closed….

Private homes were to be exempt from the new law, but having sex in a private garden which could be seen from the street, would have been a crime.

3 responses to “No uncomplicated sex, please, we’re British”

  1. Jim Treacher Avatar

    Beck was right!

  2. Pyecraft Avatar
    Pyecraft

    From previous link:
    “The Bill exempts from its definition of public sexual activity touching through the other person’s clothes. This is to avoid criminalising teenagers who get over-familiar on the dance floor – or someone innocently, if inappropriately, scratching themselves”.
    No ruling yet on the inappropriate, albeit innocent scratching of a complete stranger.
    The House of Commons, probably bored rigid by Iraq, has obviously returned to its usual, humdrum debate. I wonder if it was televised.

  3. Jackie D Avatar

    This sucks. Now anyone who wants to have illegal sex has to do it in a smelly toilet cubicle. Spoilsports.
    Sigh.