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This Alien Legacy The Origins of “Sodomy” Laws in British Colonialism
Copyright © 2008 Human Rights Watch All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America ISBN: 1-56432-419-2 Cover design by Rafael Jimenez Human Rights Watch 350 Fifth Avenue, 34th floor New York, NY 10118-3299 USA Tel: +1 212 290 4700, Fax: +1 212 736 1300 hrwnyc@hrw.org Poststraße 4-5 10178 Berlin, Germany Tel: +49 30 2593 06-10, Fax: +49 30 2593 0629 berlin@hrw.org Avenue des Gaulois, 7 1040 Brussels, Belgium Tel: + 32 (2) 732 2009, Fax: + 32 (2) 732 0471 hrwbe@hrw.org 64-66 Rue de Lausanne 1202 Geneva, Switzerland Tel: +41 22 738 0481, Fax: +41 22 738 1791 hrwgva@hrw.org 2-12 Pentonville Road, 2nd Floor London N1 9HF, UK Tel: +44 20 7713 1995, Fax: +44 20 7713 1800 hrwuk@hrw.org 27 Rue de Lisbonne 75008 Paris, France Tel: +33 (1)43 59 55 35, Fax: +33 (1) 43 59 55 22 paris@hrw.org 1630 Connecticut Avenue, N.W., Suite 500 Washington, DC 20009 USA Tel: +1 202 612 4321, Fax: +1 202 612 4333 hrwdc@hrw.org Web Site Address: http://www.hrw.org
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Page 5 and 6: I. Introduction Three Trials In 200
Page 7 and 8: etween the two—and it still provi
Page 9 and 10: These laws invade privacy and creat
Page 11 and 12: impose sodomy laws on some French c
Page 13 and 14: our morals." 27 Only in 1990, after
Page 15 and 16: corruption. Where precolonial peopl
Page 17 and 18: II. “Sodomy,” Colonialism, and
Page 19 and 20: abominable sin, amongst Christians
Page 21 and 22: when, reaching his version of the a
Page 23 and 24: prohibiting an adult male from havi
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Page 31 and 32: Brutal laws in England had been a f
Page 33 and 34: legal disability. All members of cr
Page 35 and 36: or looking like, a certain kind of
Page 37 and 38: hemorrhoids, fistules.” 99 In Bri
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Page 41 and 42: o Third, British law never punished
Page 43 and 44: As long as there is an orifice (the
Page 45 and 46: Kwong Weng defined the crime as “
Page 47 and 48: Despite the reference to procreatio
Page 49 and 50: Surely the mouth is not the same as
Page 51 and 52: of rape to forcible insertion of a
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sleeping together, or conceivably e
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o For the first time in a British-d
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The laws “disempower lesbians and
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objecting to these medical abuses.
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