[Mr Ramsbotham]

It figures that the Navy would want to repeal it. Reminds me of an early poem by T.S. Eliot:

As we were setting out to sea,
We spied a German warship,
The Captain paced the quarter-deck,
Parading, in his corset.
"What ho!" we cried, "We'll sink your ship!"
And so we up and sinked her,
But the cabin boy was saved alive,
And buggered in the sphincter.

[paterfamilias]

Did T.S. Eliot ever write limericks?

P.S.:

“(Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)”

That is very clever