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Wolfenden Report
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Wolfenden Report [ˈwʊlfəndən]
n
(Law) a study produced in 1957 by the Committee on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution in Britain, which recommended that homosexual relations between consenting adults be legalized
[named after Baron John Frederick Wolfenden (1906-85), who chaired the Committee]
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Even in 1957, the Wolfenden Committee (Parliamentary Committee on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution) affirmed that prostitution was not and should not be made an offence.
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In Britain, homosexual acts were forbidden by law, until the Wolfenden Committee presented its report on homosexual and other offences to the British government in 1957.
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Asking whether the law should be concerned with the enforcement of morals, the Wolfenden Committee replied that the purpose of law was to preserve public order, protect the citizen from what is offensive and injurious, and provide safeguards against exploitation and corruption.
It all began with Trudeau by Dooley, David / Catholic Insight
 
 
 
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