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Sodomite
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SODOMITE. One who his been guilty of sodomy. Formerly such offender was punished with great severity, and was deprived of the power of making a will.


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The links between homosexual activity and broader male social relations were so dense and so intertwined," writes Rocke, "that there was no truly autonomous distinctive sodomitical subculture, much less one based on a modern sense" of being gay.
As Keevak points out, any biographical reading of the Sonnets from the point of view of early modern culture inevitably reveals at least one sodomitical relationship, whether it be a same-sex physical relationship with the Young Man or an adulterous relationship with the Dark Lady.
Masturbatory, sodomitical, and other sexual acts which are not reproductive in type, cannot unite persons organically," said George, who obviously has never spent a night marinating in Amsterdam's red-light district.
 
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