sodomy

English

Etymology

From Sodom, where the Bible, in Genesis chapters 18 and 19 and elsewhere, suggests sexual depravity.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈsɒdəmi/
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Noun

sodomy (countable and uncountable, plural sodomies)

Any of several forms of sexual intercourse held to be unnatural, particularly bestiality or historically homosexuality, but also (sometimes) anal or oral sex.
- 1995 February 8, George James, “Rapper Faces Prison Term For Sex Abuse”, in The New York Times‎, ISSN 0362-4331:
  Mr. Shakur and his road manager, Charles Fuller, 24, were convicted Dec. 1 of first-degree sexual abuse, but they were acquitted of weapons and sodomy charges.
- 2007, Christopher Berry-Dee, Serial Killers Up Close and Personal, page 12:
  […] engaged her in conversation as to where she was going, stated that he would take her to her destination directly, forced her to commit oral sodomy upon him […]
(in particular) Anal sex.
- 2002, Martin Finkel and Angelo Giardino, Medical Evaluation of Child Sexual Abuse: A Practical Guide, page 75:
  The only published study (Feigen, 1954), which looked at 68 adults engaging in consensual anal sex, found that “it was not possible to relate the appearance of the anus to the practice of sodomy; there was no appreciable difference of the anus in those who practiced sodomy frequently and those that practiced it rarely" (p. 81).

Synonyms

(bestiality): bestiality, zoophilia
(homosexuality): homosexuality
(anal sex): anal sex, buggery, enculade
(oral sex): oral sex

Coordinate terms

scissoring
homogenitality

Derived terms

autosodomy
avisodomy
sodomise, sodomize
sodomy law
sodomite

Translations

sex held to be unnatural

Arabic: لِوَاط‎ m (liwāṭ)
Armenian: սոդոմականություն (sodomakanutʿyun)
Azerbaijani: kişibazlıq (male homosexuality)
Bulgarian: содомия f (sodomija)
Catalan: sodomia (ca) f
Dutch: sodomie (nl) f
Finnish: sodomia (fi)
German: Sodomie (de) f (bestiality)
Hebrew: מַעֲשֵׂה סְדוֹם‎ (he) m (ma'asé sdom)
Hungarian: szodómia
Italian: sodomia (it) f
Maori: karipapa
Norwegian:
Bokmål: sodomi m
Nynorsk: sodomi m
Polish: sodomia (pl) f
Portuguese: sodomia (pt) f
Romanian: sodomie (ro) f
Russian: содоми́я (ru) f (sodomíja)
Serbo-Croatian: sodòmija (sh) f, skotolòštvo (sh) n
Swedish: sodomi c
Tagalog: sodomiya

anal sex — See also translations at anal sex

Armenian: սոդոմականություն (sodomakanutʿyun)
Catalan: sodomia (ca) f
Chinese:
Cantonese: 㚻姦 (gei^¹gān^¹)
Mandarin: 㚻奸 (zh) (jījiān), 雞姦 (zh), 鸡奸 (zh) (jījiān)
Esperanto: bugro
Finnish: anaaliseksi (fi)
French: sodomie (fr) f, enculade (fr) f
German: Analverkehr (de) m, Sodomie (de) f (archaic in this sense)
Greek: σοδομία (el) f (sodomía)
Hungarian: szodómia
Italian: sodomia (it) f
Japanese: 男色 (ja) (だんしょく, danshoku, なんしょく, nanshoku), 肛門性交 (こうもんせいこう, kōmon seisō), ソドミー (sodomī)
Maori: moe whakaeneene
Portuguese: sodomia (pt) f
Romanian: sodomie (ro) f
Russian: содоми́я (ru) f (sodomíja)
Sanskrit: तिर्यग्योनिगमन (sa) n (tiryagyonigamana)
Spanish: sodomía (es) f
Swahili: ulawiti
Turkish: livata (tr)

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Dutch: ^{(please verify)} sodomie (nl)