Gross indecency
Any of various sexual criminal offenses / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For the play, see Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde.
Gross indecency is a crime in some parts of the English-speaking world, originally used to criminalize sexual activity between men that fell short of sodomy, which required penetration. The term was first used in British law in a statute of the British Parliament in 1885 and was carried forward in other statutes throughout the British Empire. The offence was never actually defined in any of the statutes which used it, which left the scope of the offence to be defined by court decisions.