Talk:Sexual Offences Act 2003

message: "The law is unique since neither the Home Office nor the Police have any intention of policing it or prosecuting those who break it except in extreme circumstances. "
This can't be the only case of a law that exists, but won't be policed except in extreme circumstances? Can it?
Danohuiginn 12:03, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unique? 

message: The text reads:       A person (A) commits an offence if—
(a) he intentionally penetrates the vagina, anus or mouth of another person (B) with his penis,
(b) B does not consent to the penetration, and
(c) A does not reasonably believe that B consents.
This is incorrect. 
The actual text reads: A person (A) commits an offence if—.
(a)he intentionally penetrates the vagina or anus of another person (B) with a part of his body or anything else,.
(b)the penetration is sexual,.
(c)B does not consent to the penetration, and.
(d)A does not reasonably believe that B consents..
There is no mention of the mouth nor the penus in this part of the act.  http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/42/section/2
If there are no objections, or clarifications, I will ammend this in due course.  surfingus (talk) 14:33, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  ERROR IN THE TEXT 

message: Could we please have a reliable source that says that the changes contained in this section are "major", or something along those lines. This sort of value judgement (i.e. anything that uses superlatives) is meaningless unless it is attributed to the person or persons whose opinion it is. James500 (talk) 04:38, 31 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Major changes 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: "Another criticism given is that the act excludes "made to penetrate" (the act of causing an unconsenting individual to penetrate you sexually) from the offence of rape"
This is uncited and misleading, section 4 defines "Causing a person to engage in sexual activity without consent". In cases of forced penetration this has the same penalty as rape.
Maybe there are reasons why this still matters, but we'd like a citation to explain them; on its own, it's misleading in that it might result in people assuming that made to penetrate is taken less seriously than rape.
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/42/section/4/2009-11-12
Link it or just delete the uncited criticism?
MatthewToseland (talk) 10:26, 21 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Made to penetrate criticism is dubious 

message: Whilst trying to look into UK sentences for sexual assault it's incredibly ambiguous, just wondering if there are any exact punishments for crimes like sexual assault as so far it seems to be quite unfairly subjective. 77.98.238.83 (talk) 20:54, 25 May 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Except in the case of murder, Parliament does not usually lay down exactly what punishment a judge must impose, though there may be a range of permissible penalties. "Judgement" is left to the judge. NRPanikker (talk) 17:20, 27 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  sentences? 

message: ‘heavily’ is a value judgement. Would a reasonable person looking at the 1967 situation objectively really consider using that word? I don't condone discrimination, even if it is only slight, but one has to keep a sense of perspective.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.61.180.106 (talk) 09:20, 20 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  heavily