Introduction: Medieval and Monstrously Cruel Laws, 1. A Fit Subject for Music Hall Humour 1950-56, 2. Talking Metaphysics to a Goldfish 1957-58, 3. Keeping Wolfenden from the Westminster Door 1959-63, 4. Burbling on about Buggery 1964-67, 5. Getting Radical about the Whole Thing 1967-73, 6. Stands England Where it Did? 1973-77, 7. Telling the Cat it was Declared an Official Vegetarian 1977-82, 8. The Lessons we so Tediously Unlearned 1982-84, 9. Being Defined By Our Cocks 1984-86, 10. Like a Turkey Voting For Christmas 1986-87, 11. A Smell of Weimar 1987-88, 12. An Air of Hope and Willingness: Into the 1990s. Acknowledgements, Notes, Age of Consent Map, Contacts.
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