Back Закони против содомията Bulgarian পায়ুকামিতা আইন Bengali/Bangla Zakon o sodomiji BS Deddf sodomiaeth Welsh Sodomiterverfolgung German Kontraŭ-sodomia leĝo Esperanto Sodomía (derecho) Spanish قانون لواط Persian Loi anti-sodomie French Hukum sodomi ID
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A sodomy law is a law that defines certain sexual acts as crimes. The precise sexual acts meant by the term sodomy are rarely spelled out in the law, but are typically understood and defined by many courts and jurisdictions to include any or all forms of sexual acts that are deemed to be "illegal", "illicit", "unlawful", "unnatural" and/or "immoral".[1] Sodomy typically includes anal sex, oral sex, manual sex, and bestiality.[2][3][4][5] In practice, sodomy laws have rarely been enforced to target against sexual activities between individuals of the opposite sex, and have mostly been used to target against sexual activities between individuals of the same sex.[6]
As of October 2023, 63 countries as well as three sub-national jurisdictions[a] have laws that criminalized sexual activity between two individuals of the same-sex.[7] In 2006 that number was 92.[8][9] Among these 63 countries, 41 of them not only criminalized male same-sex sexual activity but also have laws that criminalized female same-sex sexual activity. In 11 of them, it is punishable with the death penalty.[7]: 15
In 2011, the United Nations Human Rights Council passed an LGBT rights resolution, which was followed up by a report published by the UN Human Rights Commissioner which included scrutiny of the mentioned codes.
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