Not all countries in the worlds accept homosexuality. Some countries impose a wide variety of laws against homosexuality from full same-sex marriage to the death penalty as punishment for homosexual intercourse. Some countries without formal laws against it may indulge an openly hostile culture to persecute individuals by other means.
However, in most western countries, consensual sexual intercourse between related adults of the same sex is not prohibited and furthermore they are recognized with identical rights, protection and privileges even including marriage. Homosexual decriminalized acts were declared in Poland in 1932, Denmark in 1933, Sweden in 1944, the United Kingdom in 1967 and India in 2009. On the other hand, today several countries in Asia, the Caribbean and the South Pacific, and many countries in the Middle East and Africa outlaw homosexuality. In New Zealand, homosexual sex was legalized as the Homosexual Law Reform Act 1986 was passed with the restriction on the consent age set at 16.
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