Posted on 08/11/2020 5:50:32 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
On this date in 1833, Captain Henry Nicholas Nicholls was hanged in London for sodomy.
Sodomy — “buggery,” in the more evocative British phrase, often bowdlerized in court records as b-gg–y or the like — was a capital offense in England until 1861, when the penalty was reduced to “merely” life imprisonment....
Even though once or twice a year someone would hang for it and the scandal would send family fleeing his name, Old Blighty still had a vigorous underground gay scene in the 19th century. While Lord Byron was enjoying the easier same-sex access of the Ottoman lands, a friend wrote to him, “that what you get for £5 we must risque our necks for; and are content to risque them.” (Cited here)...
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It's kind of weird how differently--from each other-- non-Islamic countries treated buggery at the time.
Cabin boys.
Today we would need a gallows that was miles-long.
Only a linear arrangement? Why not a single pole but with, say, eight arms in a circular arrangement? And if that works well, maybe a second and third level. Two dozen at once!
Hmmm. This is sounding good as a means to handle large numbers of looters...
The three pillars of the Royal Navy, rum, buggery and the lash.
“The cabin boy, the cabin boy
The dirty little nipper
Filled his a$$ with broken glass
And circumcised the skipper!”
Unless you went after children. That they really frowned on. And they would hang you. Which is quite a civilized response to raping children.
Sadly they tended to overlook the plight of children in brothels but that was more then most countries were doing at the time.
This site devolves into PC condemnation of unenlightened views on homos.
“Senseless destruction of a venerable veteran”.
Barf.
Now, do I think homos deserve even jail? No.
But worse here is the premise he died just for being homo.
Ewww!
Circa 1913 as First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill described traditions of the Royal Navy as being “Rum, sodomy and the lash”.
Later
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