Talk:Buggery

message: I just redirect this to 'anal sex', its only common meaning. It has occasionally been used otherwise, though. The way, the truth, and the light 14:36, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't know what country you are from, but in the UK this term almost always means anal sex. In the US it's hardly used at all. So I think not including anal sex is not accurate (that's why I changed the redirect in the first place). The way, the truth, and the light 16:54, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  It is used occasionally in the USA, but always in a jocular sense. 155.213.224.59 (talk) 18:33, 20 June 2014 (UTC)

text: Actually, under English law, buggery was two different offences - anal sex and sex with animals.  The former has now been (largely) repealed, but sex with animals is still the offence of buggery.  I will include an edit in the main article to this effect. --Legis (talk - contribs) 15:59, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

text: In England the position was modified by statute (Criminal Justice Act 1994); this article is about the common law offence.  Under the common law, consent was always irrelevant. In the UK anal sex without consent would today be prosecuted as rape, not buggery, so I don't think a change along those lines would be helpful. --Legis (talk - contribs) 11:10, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I know I'm being enormously pedantic, but I was just reading the relevant acts up to 2000, and it seems that "buggery other than in private", which includes acts involving more than two people or in a public lavatory, is still a criminal offense.  Also, surely anal sex with an animal must be included? Rafaelgr (talk) 04:36, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

text: I added a sentence which adds a step in the process of which buggery was decriminalized in Britain in 1967. The sentence is about Sir John Wolfenden and the report he made which states that the government can no longer interfere with personal relationships which happen in private. -Krista Frost  — Preceding unsigned comment added by KristaFrost (talk • contribs) 18:26, 16 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Untitled comments 

message: According to the definition of buggery in the article a human having anal intercourse with an animal is not buggery.
The article currently states
Over the years the courts have defined buggery as including either:
# anal intercourse by a man with a man or woman, or
# vaginal intercourse by either a man or a woman with an animal,
according to these definitions 
if a man puts his penis in the anus of an animal - this is not buggery as described above
if a woman has the penis of an animal in her anus, - this is not buggery as described above
Is the article correct, is anal sex with animals buggery?
I would have presumed anal sex sex with animals would have been buggery, is it or not?
Carlwev (talk) 20:11, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Anal sex with animals 

message: How can 'bugger' not be used in a sexual sense until 1555 if the buggery act was created in 1533?  Something's wrong there.  Also, I had always thought that buggery was anal rape and that sodomy was consentual (despite the fact that rape presumably did occur in sodom).  Can someone explain the difference, if there is one as the first sentence implies? Will Bradshaw (talk) 23:53, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Etymology and sodomy 

message: The article mentions this but presumably it was also completely legalized when the more recent Sex Acts were introduced.  It is no longer 'decriminalized' but 'legalized' (obviously not the same thing just as decriminalizing marijuana and legalizing marijuana are not the same thing).--Xania talk 15:27, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  decriminalized in 1996 in the UK 

message: Today's newspaper reports that a man was just convicted of buggery in Australia.  I have seen this charge reported before, in recent years, in cases involving an adult man and an underage boy. I am not sure how to find the relevant legislation, so I am noting it here on the talk page in the hope that someone can clarify this in the article, which currently implies that buggery laws have been superseded. 14.201.246.185 (talk) 21:47, 28 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  New convictions for buggery in Australia (2016)