The rules of evidence, however, ensured that relatively few men were actually found guilty of sodomy. Sex between men remained illegal in parts of the United Kingdom until 1982.
Following this date, hanging was replaced by life imprisonment, and after the passage of the Labouchere Amendment in 1885, by up to two years’ incarceration. Throughout the eighteenth century and up until 1861, all penetrative homosexual acts committed by men were punishable by death. A molly in the pillory, 1763, from Political and Personal Satires, vol.
