Gross indecency

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Gross indecency was an offence created by the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885 which covered various types of sex between men other than buggery. The offence was abolished, together with that of buggery, by the Sexual Offences Act 2003, but it had been partially decriminalised by the Sexual Offences Act 1967.

This is the offence of which Oscar Wilde was convicted in 1895.

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