(the) unmentionable crime

(the) unmentionable crime
   buggery or sodomy
   Once one of the great taboos:
    The practice of bedding the men by threes and not in pairs was supposed, optimistically, to reduce unmentionable crime. (R. Hughes, 1987, describing the treatment of convicts)

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