Guernsey Age of Gay Consent to 16yrs

Guernsey politicians have today agreed to lower the age of consent for gay men to 16.

They voted unanimously today to equalise the law and bring it into line with the law for heterosexuals and lesbians.


(Above painting by Peter Colstee)

Previously, the Guernsey gay age of consent was 18.

Home minister Geoff Mahy is reported as having said "No modern government should support legislation that allows discrimination because of age, race, sex or sexual orientation.

"These are not choices that people make, but are part of who they are."

The British Crown Dependency also agreed to lift the ban on more than two gay men having sex at the same time.

Ironically, however, Devon & Cornwall Constabulary in recent years on the UK mainland, despite an equal age of gay male consent being 16yrs, Cornwall police have objected too & adversely interfered with gay relationships where the younger party has been 27yrs old with a partner in his 40’s, and again with a 23yr old with a partner in his 40’s.

Unfortunately the homophobic attitudes & practises within the Devon & Cornwall Constabulary remain very much protected & harboured by senior police officers still in 2010.


The varying different European Ages of (Gay) Male Homosexual Ephebe Sexual Consent

Albania is14,
Andorra is 16,
Austria is 14, a close-in-age exception of max. three years. otherwise16 years of age,
Belarus is 16,
Belgium is 16,
Bosnia and Herzegovina is 14,
Bulgaria is 14,
Croatia is 14,
Cyprus is 17,
Czech Republic is 15,
The Kingdom of Denmark is 15,
Faroe Islands is 15,
Estonia is 14,
Finland is 16,
France is 15,
Georgia is 16,
Germany is 14,
Greece is 17,
Hungary is 14,
Iceland is 15,
Ireland is 17,
Italy is 14 years,
Kosovo is 14,
Latvia is 16,
Lithuania is 14,
Luxembourg is 16,
Malta is 18,
Moldovan varies between 14 and 16 years,
Monaco is 15,
Netherlands is 16,
Norway is 16,
Poland is 15,
Portugal states 14,
Romania is 15,
Russia is 16,
Serbia is 14,
Slovakia is 15,
Slovenia is 15,
Spain is 13,
Sweden is 15,
Switzerland is 16,
Turkey is the age of majority (set at 18,
Ukraine is considered to be 16,
England and Wales is 16, (NOT that Cornwall police take any notice of the law)
Scotland is 16,
Northern Ireland is 16,
Gibraltar at 18,
Guernsey (a Crown Dependency including Alderney, Herm and Sark) is 16 (now),
Isle of Man, a Crown Dependency, is 16,
Jersey, a Crown Dependency, is 16,
Vatican State is 12. When there is a relationship of dependence (like teacher/student, etc.) it is 15.

(NB: Northern Cyprus sexual contact between males are punished with up to 5 years of imprisonment)

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Despite the age of gay sexual consent being 16yrs of age in the UK since Jan 2001, homophobic Cornwall police still have yet to grasp homosexuality has been decriminalised in mainland UK for over forty years.


NB:- This blog was started specifically due to direct contribution by multiple homophobic harassment, attitudes & practises, failure of 'duty of care', misconduct & or contribution to police criminality & abuse of power in abusing gay persons as contributed too by ALL of the following Devon & Cornwall Constabulary police officers to my factual knowledge & experience

....DC WOODS (retired)
DC SCOTT (Camborne)
DC ANNING (Camborne)
DC CROWE (Camborne)
DC PARKER (& his DS at Camborne)
DS BECKERLEGGE (Camborne)
PC TAR & accomplice (Black Female Police colleague) (Camborne)
PC FULLER (Helston)
PC TRELOAR (Helston)
PC ALEXANDER & Police Colleague,
PC PIPER (Diversity Officer)
PC CANNON (Diversity officer)
Sgt. ROWE (Helston)
Inspector BOLT (Camborne)
Inspector EASTERN (Professional Standards Unit),
Various Custody officers from Camborne Police Station 2004,
Three Helston Police Officers on duty evening Flora Day Helston 2006,
Former Chief Constable Maria Wallis
Former Acting Chief Constable Nigel Arnold
Chief Constable Stephen Otter.

...This is NOT the complete list of violating & abusive Devon & Cornwall Police officers or employees I know personally and factually to be responsible for contribution to abuse of gay persons in Cornwall.

Until the Devon & Cornwall Constabulary address these issues of police homophobic conduct by known, identified, named &/or identifiable homophobic police scum, I will continue to blog their names on the internet.

Police = They ARE the abusive Homophobic Hate Crime problem STILL in Cornwall 2010