Judge Rules On Making Anal Sex Legal Between Consenting Adults
1,529 views · Published 20 September 2018 · 0:43 · Indexed 10 November 2026
Channel: TTT Live Online · 2018 · People & Blogs
A recommendation from the courts for this country's sodomy laws to be amended to make consensual sex in same-sex unions legal. On Thursday, Justice Devindra Rampersad gave his final ruling in the landmark ruling of Jason Jones who successfully challenged certain sections of the Sexual Offences Act. While he gave his ruling, Justice Rampersad refused to grant a stay of execution of the declarations so the State can appeal the decision. In his decision, he said the most "non-intrusive manner" in which to resolve the issue of criminalising consensual same-sex relations would be to modify the Sections. In Section 13, the words "without consent" will now be read as: "13. (1) A person who commits the offence of buggery is liable on conviction to imprisonment for twenty-five years. (2) In this section "buggery" means sexual intercourse "without consent" per anum by a male person with a male person or by a male person with a female person."
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