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financially on others and are therefore vulnerable to
temptation by material and other incentives to consent to
homosexual acts.
41.
For
If option I were to be adopted, it would be desirable
to set out the various circumstances in which homosexual acts
would continue to be an offence. Reform of the law would need
to be supported by a comprehensive code of offences to protect
males in the same way as females are now protected.
example, it is an offence to procure a woman by threats or
false pretences to have sexual intercourse or to administer
drugs to a woman to facilitate unlawful sexual intercourse; to
traffic to or from Hong Kong in women for prostitution; to
cause the prostitution of a woman; to detain a woman for
unlawful sexual intercourse in a vice establishment, to cause
or encourage the prostitution of a female defective; and for a
man to live on the earnings of prostitution.
42.
If homosexual acts between consenting adult men in
private were no longer criminal offences, the many sexual
offences protecting women should, as far as possible, be
extended to protect men from being suborned into committing
homosexual acts or being exploited for the purposes of
homosexual prostitution. A list of protective measures which
currently exist for women and which it would be desirable to
extend to men is at Appendix B
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