Criminal Law Bill 1921
Proposed to extend the provision criminalising gross indecency between males to gross indecency between women. This bill was dropped due to those who felt that to even criminalise female-to-female sex acts would draw attention to these acts and publicise them. As a result female-to-female sex acts were legal, unlike male-to-male sex acts.
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