Section 377 :: History Historical 377 Essays

Section 377 On October 6, 1860, the Indian Law Commission, lorded over by Lord Macauly (Bhaskaran 15), took out a giant-sized Elmer’s glue-stick and applied quantities of super-sticky lines to the reverse of Section 377, a colonial antisodomy statute to be included in the Indian Penal code (15), which was on a massive slice of parchment perfectly India-shaped, before it was pastily placed over the subcontinent of Asia. Like a shimmering gem in a place setting carefully crafted by a jeweler for a crown worn by a foreign conqueror heading the globe, its broadcast with the seduction of TV: Whoever voluntarily has carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any man, woman, or animal, shall be punished with imprisonment for life, or with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine. Explanation. Penetration is sufficient to constitute the carnal intercourse necessary to the offence described in this section. Comment. This section is intended to punish the offence of sodomy, buggery and bestiality. The offense consists in a carnal knowledge committed against the order of nature by a person with a man, or in the same unnatural manner with a woman, or by a man or woman in any manner with an animal. (Bhaskaran 15) As the British soldiers stomped in quick-time across the surface, the Indians became stuck in the glue and it dried upon their skin leaving permanent marks molding them into the British Victorian 1800s, a feat of timespace travel, and the soldiers sang: Take up the White Man’s burden-- The savage wars of peace-- Fill full the mouth of famine And bid the sickness cease; And when your goal is nearest The end for others sought, Watch sloth and heathen Folly Bring all your hopes to naught. Take up the White Man’s burden-- (Kipling qtd. in Halsall) In response to the effects of the glue, Macauly is quoted as having said, â€Å"Our principle is simply this--uniformity when you can have it; diversity when you must have it; but, in all cases certainty † (Bhaskaran 20). â€Å"Where women are not imagined to have sexual agency at all, lesbian sex is not outlawed because it is not imagined to exist† (Bacchetta 951). For this reason, women are not subject to Section 377 legally; however, women who love women are still threatened with it (Bhaskaran 26). Section 377 :: History Historical 377 Essays Section 377 On October 6, 1860, the Indian Law Commission, lorded over by Lord Macauly (Bhaskaran 15), took out a giant-sized Elmer’s glue-stick and applied quantities of super-sticky lines to the reverse of Section 377, a colonial antisodomy statute to be included in the Indian Penal code (15), which was on a massive slice of parchment perfectly India-shaped, before it was pastily placed over the subcontinent of Asia. Like a shimmering gem in a place setting carefully crafted by a jeweler for a crown worn by a foreign conqueror heading the globe, its broadcast with the seduction of TV: Whoever voluntarily has carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any man, woman, or animal, shall be punished with imprisonment for life, or with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine. Explanation. Penetration is sufficient to constitute the carnal intercourse necessary to the offence described in this section. Comment. This section is intended to punish the offence of sodomy, buggery and bestiality. The offense consists in a carnal knowledge committed against the order of nature by a person with a man, or in the same unnatural manner with a woman, or by a man or woman in any manner with an animal. (Bhaskaran 15) As the British soldiers stomped in quick-time across the surface, the Indians became stuck in the glue and it dried upon their skin leaving permanent marks molding them into the British Victorian 1800s, a feat of timespace travel, and the soldiers sang: Take up the White Man’s burden-- The savage wars of peace-- Fill full the mouth of famine And bid the sickness cease; And when your goal is nearest The end for others sought, Watch sloth and heathen Folly Bring all your hopes to naught. Take up the White Man’s burden-- (Kipling qtd. in Halsall) In response to the effects of the glue, Macauly is quoted as having said, â€Å"Our principle is simply this--uniformity when you can have it; diversity when you must have it; but, in all cases certainty † (Bhaskaran 20). â€Å"Where women are not imagined to have sexual agency at all, lesbian sex is not outlawed because it is not imagined to exist† (Bacchetta 951). For this reason, women are not subject to Section 377 legally; however, women who love women are still threatened with it (Bhaskaran 26).