Practical forensic medicine : a police-surgeon's emergency guide / by C. Graham Grant ; with which is a chapter on fees by Herbert Austin.

  • Grant, Charles Graham.
Date:
1911
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Credit: Practical forensic medicine : a police-surgeon's emergency guide / by C. Graham Grant ; with which is a chapter on fees by Herbert Austin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    UNNATURAL OFFENCES. Bestiality and Sodomy. Bestiality and sodomy are in the eyes of the law synonymous offences, and should be looked at by the police-surgeon from the same point of view as rape (see section thereon), remembering that, as far as sodomy is concerned, the question of consent does not arise. Sodomy, or buggery (the latter is the legal term), im- plies the introduction of the penis into the anus of another animal for sexual purposes. The actual wording of the Act is ' with mankind or with any animal,' and it has been held that women are included under one or other of these divisions. It seems to be usual for the man to use his hands to introduce his organ in the sexual act, but many men do not do so ; and if certain women are to be believed, they take advantage of this fact to pass the male organ over the vulva and into the anus, to avoid the risk of impregnation. This for what it is worth : it is hard to believe, and harder still to prove ; but it would be well to bear the statement in mind. The author was called to examine a boy of seventeen years who had, under threats, been repeatedly sodomized by the mate of the ship in which he was an apprentice. A certificate was to hand from a medical man in an American port, which set forth that a laceration of the sphincter ani was found on examination. Three weeks