" The common law crime of indecent assault was repealed by the Criminal Law ( Sexual Offences and Related Matters ) Amendment Act, 2007, and replaced by a statutory crime of sexual assault.

; Sexual assault: The offence of sexual assault created by section 3 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003.

* Sexual offences against children ( s. 72 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 )

In English law, for example, s74 Sexual Offences Act 2003 provides that consent is present " if he agrees by choice, and has the freedom and capacity to make that choice ".

In 1967, homosexuality was decriminalised by the passage of the Sexual Offences Act.

In the Republic of Ireland, the Criminal Law ( Sexual Offences ) Act, 1993 abolished the offence of " buggery between persons ".

The Criminal Law ( Sexual Offences ) Act 2006 replaced this offence with " defilement of a child ", encompassing both " sexual intercourse " and " buggery ".

Paisley's campaign sought to prevent the extension to Northern Ireland of the Sexual Offences Act 1967, which had decriminalised homosexual acts between males over 21 years of age in England and Wales.

The recommendations eventually led to the passage of the Sexual Offences Act 1967, applying to England and Wales only, that replaced the previous law on sodomy contained in the Offences against the Person Act 1861 and the 1885 Labouchere Amendment which outlawed every homosexual act short of sodomy.

Victim was the first mainstream British film to treat homosexuality convincingly and it had some effect upon a contemporary Sexual Offences Act 1967, a change in English law which decriminalized consensual homosexual acts.

Until the 1967 Sexual Offences Act, which implemented the recommendations of the Wolfenden report, homosexual acts between consenting male adults were illegal in England and Wales.

In 2003, the Sexual Offences Act 2003 raised the minimum legal age for topless modelling to 18.

The Criminal Law ( Sexual Offences and Related Matters ) Amendment Act created the offence of sexual assault, replacing a common-law offence of indecent assault.

It is created by section 3 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 which defines " sexual assault " as when a person ( A )

Baker notes that it is almost impossible to prove an absence of consent in cases where an intoxicated person was too intoxicated to communicate their consent ; and that the new presumptions found in sections 75-76 of the Sexual Offences Act are unable to resolve this problem, which is in the end not one of an absence of consent, but an issue of whether D had reasonable grounds for believing consent was present.

It is created by article 7 of the Sexual Offences ( Northern Ireland ) Order 2008.

It is created by section 3 of the Sexual Offences ( Scotland ) Act 2009.

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Alberta once abandoned an attempt to use the notwithstanding clause to limit lawsuits against the government for past forced sterilizations approved by the Alberta Eugenics Board before the Sexual Sterilization Act was repealed.

* Brauer, Carl M., " Women Activists, Southern Conservatives, and the Prohibition of Sexual Discrimination in Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act ", 49 Journal of Southern History, February 1983.

In 2003, Spitzer published the paper in the Archives of Sexual Behavior.

Under the UK Employment Equality ( Sexual Orientation ) Regulations 2003, as explained by Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service, " workers or job applicants must not be treated less favourably because of their sexual orientation, their perceived sexual orientation or because they associate with someone of a particular sexual orientation.

When the state attorney general issued his report entitled Child Sexual Abuse in the Archdiocese of Boston ( July 23, 2003 ) he severely criticized Law but did not allege that Law had tried to evade investigation and he did state that Law had not broken any laws.

A study conducted in Denmark in 2003 and later published in Archives of Sexual Behavior found that men and women generally believe that hardcore pornography has a positive influence on their lives.

On the heels of that article, San Francisco Chronicle contributing writer Frank Leon Roberts published " Stereotypes and Sexual Orientation: The ' down-low ' – Coming out your own way in black clubs " in the newspaper's July 23, 2003 issue.

* elected onto a large number of House of Commons Standing Committees ( now ( 2012 ) known as General Committees, they conduct detailed scrutiny of proposed legislation ) including: Export Control Bill 2002, Proceeds of Crime Bill 2002, Criminal Justice Bill 2003, Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Bill 2004, Sexual Offences Bill 2003, Serious Organised Crime and Police Bill 2005, Pensions Bill 2004, Housing Bill 2004.

Prosecution is possible for a number of offences such as section 5 of the Public Order Act 1986, indecent exposure under section 66 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 or for the common law offence of outraging public decency.

This Act was effectively superseded in England and Wales by the Sexual Offences Act 2003 which repealed most of its provisions as they applied to England and Wales.

* Sexual Offences Act 2003

This led to amendments to the Protection of Children Act by the Sexual Offences Act 2003 to create a statutory defence where it was necessary " to make the photograph or pseudo-photograph for the purposes of the prevention, detection or investigation of crime, or for the purposes of criminal proceedings ".

It was abolished and replaced by the similar offence of sexual assault under section 3 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003.

Sexual Selection-Side Box 1. 1: Runaway Sexual Selection, 2003.

The Sexual Offences Act 2003 ( c 42 ) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

Group homosexual sex has been decriminalised, in that Schedule 6 of the 2003 Act caused section 12 of the Sexual Offences Act 1956 to be omitted, removing the offence of homosexual sex " when more than two persons take part or are present ".

" Sexual orientation disturbance " was also removed and was largely subsumed under " sexual disorder not otherwise specified " which can include " persistent and marked distress about one ’ s sexual orientation.

Sexual selection, a concept introduced by Charles Darwin in his 1859 book On the Origin of Species, is a significant element of his theory of natural selection.

Sexual opportunism has always been a much disputed concept, because:

In the 1890s, English socialist poet Edward Carpenter and Scottish anarchist John Henry Mackay wrote in defense of same-sex love and androgyny ; Carpenter and British homosexual rights advocate John Addington Symonds contributed to the development of Havelock Ellis's groundbreaking book Sexual Inversion, which called for tolerance towards " inverts " and was suppressed when first published in England.

In 1897, Havelock Ellis, a British sexologist, co-authored the first English medical text book on homosexuality, Sexual inversion ( Das Konträre Geschlechtsgefühle ).

In 1978 Judge Melford Stevenson called the British Sexual Offences Act 1967 a buggers ' charter.

If British law applied, for example, it may constitute sex in lavatory to which the public has access, contrary to Sexual Offences Act 2003 s. 71, with a maximum 6-month term.

The defence maintained that Britain never made a formal claim to Pitcairn, and never officially informed the islanders that British legislation, such as the Sexual Offences Act, 1956, was applicable to them.

She is a director of the Centre for the Study of Children at Risk at McMaster University ; a delegate to the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, September 1995 ; a delegate to the First World Congress against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children in Stockholm, August 1996 ; the alternate head of the Canadian delegation to the International Child Labour Conference in Oslo, October 1997 ; the co-chair of Out From the Shadows: International Summit of Sexually Exploited Youth in Victoria, British Columbia, March 1998 ; and the co-chair of the Special Joint Committee on Child Custody and Access which drafted the report entitled For the Sake of the Children, 1998.

* Sexual Encounters in the Middle East: The British, the French and the Arabs ( 1999 )