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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

A hundred years ago the House of Lords debated criminalising lesbian sex.

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FindTheTruth · 17/08/2021 09:19

A hundred years ago,15 August 1921, the House of Lords debated criminalising lesbian sex.

HANSARD
hansard.parliament.uk/lords/1921-08-15/debates/79d32ffb-c9ba-46f7-a46f-0020f1269fd5/CommonsAmendment

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FindTheTruth · 17/08/2021 09:19

Acts of indecency by females.

Any act of gross indecency between female persons shall be a misdemeanour, and punishable in the same manner as any such act committed by male persons under section eleven of the Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1885.

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FindTheTruth · 17/08/2021 09:22

"we all know of the sort of romantic, almost hysterical, friendships that are made between young women at certain periods of their lives and of its occasional manifestations"

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TheBurmundseyIndustrialEstate · 17/08/2021 09:59

Interesting that the argument against it was that criminalisation may give it publicity, in case it polluted the minds of young women.

Is there any necessity fur it? How many people does one suppose really are so vile, so unbalanced, so neurotic, so decadent as to do this? You may say there are a number of them, but it would be, at most, an extremely small minority, and you are going to tell the whole world that there is such an offence, to bring it to the notice of women who have never heard of it, never thought of it, never dreamed of it.

PermanentTemporary · 17/08/2021 18:06

Oh my God that's absolutely hilarious to read.

Sorry if that's inappropriate. But imagining Stephen Fry performing this entire debate in multiple voices.

Interesting that it was expected that women would sleep in the same bed in all sorts of circumstances. I did think when I read about Apollo 13, when all noncritical systems were shut down to reduce power use and the spaceship was so cold it was hard to sleep, surely the astronauts slept together to share body heat? But in such a homophobic era as the late 60s, maybe not.

DdraigGoch · 17/08/2021 22:49

@PermanentTemporary

Oh my God that's absolutely hilarious to read.

Sorry if that's inappropriate. But imagining Stephen Fry performing this entire debate in multiple voices.

Interesting that it was expected that women would sleep in the same bed in all sorts of circumstances. I did think when I read about Apollo 13, when all noncritical systems were shut down to reduce power use and the spaceship was so cold it was hard to sleep, surely the astronauts slept together to share body heat? But in such a homophobic era as the late 60s, maybe not.

I can't remember where I read it but I'm sure that in the Royal Marines the treatment for hypothermia was to strip off and share a sleeping bag with the biggest hairiest boot neck.
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