Sodomy
noun
A sexual act that involves anal or oral sex.
Under certain laws, sodomy is considered a punishable crime.
Often appears as...
- commit sodomy
- charge of sodomy
Usage tips
Formal, Disapproving
Academic
noun
A sexual act that involves anal or oral sex.
Under certain laws, sodomy is considered a punishable crime.
Often appears as...
- commit sodomy
- charge of sodomy
Usage tips
Formal, Disapproving
Academic
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Legal Charge
Used in legal contexts to describe a crime in places where it's illegal.
The man faced a sodomy charge in a country where it's criminalized.
Pro Tip 2/3Cultural Sensitivity
Be aware of cultural and regional attitudes towards sodomy; it's sensitive or taboo in many societies.
Discussions of sodomy led to heated debates in a culturally conservative community.
Pro Tip 3/3Historical Context
Historically, sodomy laws have changed and can vary vastly by location and time period.
Sodomy was decriminalized in the UK in 1967, reflecting societal shifts.
Pro Tip 1/3Legal Charge
Used in legal contexts to describe a crime in places where it's illegal.
The man faced a sodomy charge in a country where it's criminalized.
Pro Tip 2/3Cultural Sensitivity
Be aware of cultural and regional attitudes towards sodomy; it's sensitive or taboo in many societies.
Discussions of sodomy led to heated debates in a culturally conservative community.
Pro Tip 3/3Historical Context
Historically, sodomy laws have changed and can vary vastly by location and time period.
Sodomy was decriminalized in the UK in 1967, reflecting societal shifts.
Pro Tip 1/3Legal Charge
Used in legal contexts to describe a crime in places where it's illegal.
The man faced a sodomy charge in a country where it's criminalized.
Pro Tip 2/3Cultural Sensitivity
Be aware of cultural and regional attitudes towards sodomy; it's sensitive or taboo in many societies.
Discussions of sodomy led to heated debates in a culturally conservative community.
Pro Tip 3/3Historical Context
Historically, sodomy laws have changed and can vary vastly by location and time period.
Sodomy was decriminalized in the UK in 1967, reflecting societal shifts.
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Video examples
The psychology of evil PIPE...
Here are the guards with the symbols of power and anonymity. Guards get prisoners to clean the toilet bowls out with their bare hands, to do other humiliating tasks. They strip them naked. They sexually taunt them. They begin to do degrading activities, like having them simulate sodomy.
Video examples
The psychology of evil PIPE...
Here are the guards with the symbols of power and anonymity. Guards get prisoners to clean the toilet bowls out with their bare hands, to do other humiliating tasks. They strip them naked. They sexually taunt them. They begin to do degrading activities, like having them simulate sodomy.
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Quote examples
Ruhollah Khomeini
Iranian Statesman
If one commits the act of sodomy with a cow, an ewe, or a camel, their urine and their excrements become impure, and even their milk may no longer be consumed. The animal must then be killed and as quickly as possible and burned.
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Warren E. Burger
American Judge
To hold that the act of homosexual sodomy is somehow protected as a fundamental right would be to cast aside millennia of moral teaching.
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Dorothy Kilgallen
American Actress
Sodomy is in the Bible, to be read in churches. I wouldn't rule it out of Mr. Bruce's act if he cares to comment on it.
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Tony Parsons
English Critic
Grammar schools are public schools without the sodomy.
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Marty Feldman
English Comedian
Comedy, like sodomy, is an unnatural act.
Quote examples
Ruhollah Khomeini
Iranian Statesman
If one commits the act of sodomy with a cow, an ewe, or a camel, their urine and their excrements become impure, and even their milk may no longer be consumed. The animal must then be killed and as quickly as possible and burned.
Quote examples
Warren E. Burger
American Judge
To hold that the act of homosexual sodomy is somehow protected as a fundamental right would be to cast aside millennia of moral teaching.
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Dorothy Kilgallen
American Actress
Sodomy is in the Bible, to be read in churches. I wouldn't rule it out of Mr. Bruce's act if he cares to comment on it.
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Tony Parsons
English Critic
Grammar schools are public schools without the sodomy.
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Marty Feldman
English Comedian
Comedy, like sodomy, is an unnatural act.
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