Stolen Kisses

This was stated in the first draft of Article 528 of the new Rocco penal code in 1927 regarding the repression of homosexuality, which was thus simultaneously recognized and sanctioned for the first time.

Everyone agreed on sanctioning it, but never, ever, did it matter if it was necessary to acknowledge that this “shameful vice” – as a non-heterosexual relationship was then defined – was widespread in Italy: the very virility of the Italian male would have been called into question!