Page "Buggery" Paragraph 7

Most common law jurisdictions have now modified the law to permit anal sex between consenting adults.

Hong Kong did so retroactively in 1990, barring prosecution for " crimes against nature " committed before the Crimes ( Amendment ) Ordinance 1990 entered into force except those that would still have constituted a crime if they had been done thereafter.

In the England and Wales, homosexual buggery was decriminalised in 1967 with a higher age of consent.

The Sexual Offences Act 2003 fully removed buggery as a concept in British law, introducing an equal age of consent and not differentiating between vaginal and anal sex.