Over nearly five centuries the UK parliament, and its earlier incarnations, frequently legislated to ensure the regulation and punishment of buggery, a form of sexual conduct once generally accepted to constitute one of the most serious criminal offences known to law. In the early 21st century, parliament abolished the offence of buggery and, subsequently, granted pardons to certain individuals previously convicted of it. While some aspects of the history of parliament's approach to buggery are well known – particularly in respect of homosexual law reform – much of this history remains obscure. This article provides an in‐depth consideration of the making of statute law in parliament relating to buggery that reveals the dramatically changing attitudes of legislators towards this aspect of sexual conduct and highlights the significance and importance of the pardons granted to those convicted of the offence

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鸡奸和议会，1533–2017

近五个世纪以来，英国议会及其早期的议会经常立法以确保对肛交进行监管和惩罚，肛交是一种一度被普遍接受的性行为形式，是法律已知的最严重的刑事犯罪之一。在 21 世纪初，议会废除了鸡奸罪，随后赦免了先前被判犯有鸡奸罪的某些人。虽然议会处理鸡奸的历史的某些方面是众所周知的——特别是在同性恋法律改革方面——但这段历史的大部分内容仍然模糊不清。