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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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As well documented, the central source of the premodern and early modern scorn and prosecution of homosexual, "against the nature," or sodomitic activities were the theological treatises transposed into a church doctrine (Greenberg, 1988).
Determinants of homonegativity in Europe by Stulhofer, Aleksander; Rimac, Ivan / The Journal of Sex Research
Kingly failure and sodomitic rape are seen to coincide.
Royal carnality and illicit desire in the English history plays of ... by Forker, Charles R. / Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England
170) The negative attitude towards homosexual or sodomitic acts reaches back to the earliest days of organized Christianity.
Catholic clergy sexual abuse meets the civil law by Doyle, Thomas P.; Rubino, Stephen C. / Fordham Urban Law Journal
 
 
 
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