{"id":566,"date":"2012-01-09T19:58:27","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T18:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/?p=566"},"modified":"2012-01-09T20:01:05","modified_gmt":"2012-01-09T19:01:05","slug":"sodomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/sodomy\/","title":{"rendered":"Sodomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2012\/jan\/09\/anwar-ibrahim-sodomy-dismissed-malaysian\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-567\" title=\"safe_image\" src=\"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/safe_image.jpeg\" alt=\"Anwar Ibrahim\" width=\"90\" height=\"54\" \/><\/a>Personally I am proud to say I have been guilty of sodomy much of my life. Thank goodness I live in a country where it became legal, by the time I was 4 years old, albeit only for 21 yr olds; and although in my late teens and early 20s I was guilty of under-age sex with other 16-20yr olds, when the age of consent was finally equalised at 16 my sexual behaviour became not only legal but represented on telly in a sympathetic and even competition-winning manner (as opposed to wretched and probably dead by the end of the story). How awful that a ghastly despot in a far-flung country should be able to use a charge of &#8216;sodomy&#8217; as a means of suppressing an opposition politician. It sounds like some Byzantine early Christian Roman Emperor arresting a bunch of Greek Philosophers. How grateful I am to live here, and not over there.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2012\/jan\/09\/anwar-ibrahim-sodomy-dismissed-malaysian\">Anwar Ibrahim sodomy charge dismissed by Malaysian judge<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Personally I am proud to say I have been guilty of sodomy much of my life. Thank goodness I live in a country where it became legal, by the time I was 4 years old, albeit only for 21 yr olds; and although in my late teens and early 20s I was guilty of under-age &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/sodomy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sodomy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tubthumper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=566"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":571,"href":"https:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions\/571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}