Editing Sodomy laws (section)

==== During the French Revolution ====
In France, it was the French Penal Code of 1791 that for the first time revised the concept of sodomy as a crime, together decriminalizing all so-called "victimless crimes" (together with witchcraft, heresy, blasphemy) according to the concept that if not had there been a victim there would have been no crime either. The same principle was held true also in the French Penal Code of 1810 wanted by [[Napoleon Bonaparte]] and which soon made its way onto a large part of the European continent then ruled by the first French Empire and its kings-in-law, thus decriminalizing sodomy in much of continental Europe.