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Frederick the Great of Prussia was influenced by French
Enlightenment philosophy and during his reign he worked to
revise the Prussian penal code to make it more humane.
He did not go as far as to rescind criminal penalties for
"unnatural acts" like the French did in 1791,
but he did reduce the penalty for "pederasty" from
death to flogging, followed by prison, then another flogging
and finally banishment.
Though he was widely rumored
to be a "pederast"
himself, he was oddly unable to remove the legal penalties
for sex between men. |
