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Hanged
This, brought to me by Anita in Scotland, is very interesting but highly disturbing. Homosexuality in Eighteenth-Century England. The names used for gay people in those days look funny to modern eyes - there are words like "he-strumpets" and "bumography" - but the majority of these people who were tried for sodomy were hanged. Think about that. These people were killed by the state for consensual sex. Wasn't that truly terrible?

Isn't it terrible that it still happens today...?