Debate
No subsequent reconsideration of the issue of male homosexuality in statutory law took place in England and Wales until the late 1970s.
In 1979, the Home Office Policy Advisory Committee's Working Party report Age of Consent in relation to Sexual Offences recommended that the age of consent for homosexual offences should be 18. This was rejected at the time, in part due to fears that further decriminalisation would serve only to encourage younger men to experiment sexually with other men, a choice that some at the time claimed would place such an individual outside of wider society. Subsequent amendments to homosexual offences legislation across the United Kingdom illustrates how this line of thought has moved on rapidly, particularly within the past six years.
Read more about this topic: Sexual Offences Act 1967
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