ABSTRACT
Most reviewers of the Sir John Wolfenden Report seem to have started at the end, rushing into a recital of the ‘recommendations’ before considering the process of arriving at these recommendations. The most revolutionary and ‘controversial’ of these ‘recommendations’ is that: ‘homosexual behaviour between consenting adults in private be no longer a criminal offence’. However the Wolfenden Committee, in spite of their endless incongruities, are not entirely ignorant, perhaps thanks to their medical and other witnesses, of the fact that homosexuality is more of a bogy, than anything else. Many superficial aspects of homosexuality, of homosexual behaviour, of homosexual crime, and of crime related to homosexuality, are discussed in this Report. Legal and police attitudes towards homosexuality are full of incongruities, many of which are pointed out in the Wolfenden Report. The natural male homosexual resents very strongly any confusion of his proclivities or those of his friends with the abnormal ‘perverted’ proclivities of such a deviant.
