I want to know the answer to the following question:
What was a crime in the eighteenth century that could cause severe punishment but was mostly ignored?
All the background I'm provided with is that "In 1976, philosopher and historian Michel Foucault argued in The History of Sexuality that homosexuality as an identity did not exist in the eighteenth century; that people instead spoke of "sodomy," which referred to sexual acts.". Is that enough to answer the question?
Answer: no