sodomy gross indecency https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_indecency https://lgbtqia.fandom.com/wiki/Gross_indecency https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5610496 A crime in some parts of the English-speaking world, originally used to criminalize sexual activity between men that fell short of sodomy, which required penetration. The term was first used in British law in a statute of the British Parliament in 1885 and was carried forward in other statutes throughout the British Empire. The offense was never actually defined in any of the statutes which used it, which left the scope of the offense to be defined by court decisions. The concept of gross indecency as a criminal offense is deeply reflective of Victorian-era morality. Encyclopedia of Homosexuality The A – Z of Gender and Sexuality: From Ace to Ze