High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! X. v. the United Kingdom was a 1978 case before the European Court of Human Rights, challenging the Sexual Offences Act 1967 in the United Kingdom. The case addressed privacy protections and age of consent laws for homosexuals (case no. 7215/75, Dec. 12.10.1978). In 1974, a 26-year-old male, anonymously identified as 'X', was arrested in the United Kingdom and charged under the The Sexual Offences Act 1967 with two offences of buggery committed with two 18-year-old males. X was sentenced two and a half years of imprisonment on the first count and six months on the second count. There was evidence shown that X had virtually made a prisoner of one of the men he had relationship with.