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Wolfenden Report [ˈwʊlfəndən]

(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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No references found			He was born there in 1945, grew up a working-class Catholic and discovered his homosexuality in the days before the implementation of the Wolfenden Report. Of Time and the City by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk September 4, 1957: The Wolfenden Report suggests sex between homosexuals should no longer be a criminal offence. GO SLOW; nostalgia Back to the days when two wheels and horse power ... by Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Wolfenden Report In 1957, The Wolfenden Report, which contained the results of a committee investigation into homosexuality and prostitution, recommended that the English law prohibiting homosexual behaviour between consenting adults in private be repealed. Public morality: the need to rediscover discipline and conscience by Kokoski, Paul / Catholic Insight			wolf boy Wolf Cub wolf dog wolf down wolf eel wolf fish Wolf net wolf pack wolf pup wolf spider wolf whistle wolf's bane wolf's milk Wolf's peach Wolf's-claw Wolf's-foot Wolf's-milk Wolf-Ferrari Wolf-Rayet star wolf-sized wolf-whistle wolfbane wolfberry wolfcub Wolfe Wolfenden Report Wolfensohn wolfer Wolff Wolffia Wolffia columbiana Wolffian Wolffian body Wolffian duct Wolffiella Wolffiella gladiata wolffish Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Wolfgang Pauli wolfhound wolfish wolfishly Wolfit Wolfkin wolflike Wolfling wolfman wolfpack wolfram Wolfram steel Wolfram von Eschenbach			Wolfe Island Day Camp Wolfe Mammographic Parenchymal Patterns Wolfe Patterns Wolfe Tone Wolfe Wave Wolfe Waves Wolfe's Neck Woods State Park Wolfe, James Wolfe, James Wolfe, Nero Wolfe, Thomas Wolfe, Thomas (Clayton) Wolfe, Thomas (Clayton) Wolfe, Thomas Clayton Wolfe, Thomas Clayton Wolfe, Tom Wolfe, Tom Wolfe-Harris Center for Clinical Studies Wolfe-Spence tests wolfed wolfed wolfed wolfed wolfeite Wolfen Wolfenbuettel Wolfenbuttel Wolfenbüttel Wolfenden Committee Wolfenden inquiry Wolfenden Report Wolfenite Wolfenite Wolfensohn Wolfensohn Wolfensohn, James Wolfensohn, James D. Wolfenstein 3D Wolfenstein 3D: Spear of Destiny Wolfenstein Death Company Wolfenstein Enemy Territory wolfer Wolfes, Felix WOLFET Wolff Wolff Wolff (disambiguation) Wolff (disambiguation) Wolff Parkinson White syndrome Wolff Periodic disease Wolff Periodic disease Wolff's law Wolff's law Wolff's law Wolff's law Wolff's Telegraphic Bureau Wolff, Caspar Friedrich Wolff, Christian Wolff, Christian von Wolff, Christian, Freiherr von Wolff, Elisabeth (Bekker)

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