The Centre on Wednesday completed its embrace of Delhi High Court's verdict which de-criminalized consensual sex in private among gay adults, blaming the prevalent hostility to homosexuality to Victorian prudeness. Prior to 1860, a liberal Indian society was not inimical to homosexuals but the British imposed repressive Victorian moral values by incorporating section 377 in Indian Penal Code to make gay sex an offence, Attorney General G E Vahanvati told the Supreme Court.