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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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L'effectivite des interdits sexuels permet, a partir du Moyen Age, aux autorites civiles et ecclesiastiques d'augmenter progressivement leur controle sur les sodomites, souvent associes aux heretiques.
Patrice Corriveau, Judging Homosexuals: A History of Gay Persecution in Quebec and France
It is obviously difficult to believe that the poet actually saw the Sodomite relationships and the faithful Christian's individual bond with Christ as anything but wildly dissimilar, yet for some reason he hints at the fact that on a certain level of logic they both share the same characteristics, which in the former case invite censure of the highest proportions, whereas in the latter they are actually seen as desirable.
The god of the Middle English Cleanness and his erotic exhortations of purity
8) The sodomite functions similarly in late eighteenth--and early nineteenth-century culture.
'Dung, guts and blood': sodomy, abjection and Gothic fiction in the early nineteenth century
Most reviews waxed and waned between giddy glee for these sodomites of the sagebrush and sappy salivation about The Tumescence in the Tent.
Homos on the range: a look at how liberal cultural elites gave "blockbuster" stature to a perverse movie--Brokeback Mountain--and what they hoped to accomplish
Bray pointed out how, in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, "sodomy," in Hammond's rendering, "was more of an ideological category than an erotic preference: sodomites were bracketed with Jesuits, Spanish spies, and werewolves as agents of social and moral subversion," a "way of thinking" that "provided no resources for self-definition" (9).
Figuring Sex between Men from Shakespeare to Rochester
By the time the reader is finished reading Part Two, he/she clearly understands how the Church erroneously came to believe that its Bible forbade sodomy (the term of the era) and came to view sodomites (again, the term of the era) as enemies of God and the social order.
Fone, Byrne. Homophobia: a History
could and did denote a 'confused category' of acts, in many other sources we find increasing evidence of a more narrow and specific usage, a usage in which these words refer first and foremost to sexual contact between two males; likewise, sodomite comes to refer specifically to a man who engages in a sexual act with another man.
Millennium Approached: Reflections on the State of Queer Literary Studies at the Fin-de-Siecle
Through Camp's dissolution of every symbolic hierarchy through the prioritization of style and surface effect, the Sodomite becomes simultaneously an incarnation of emptiness and is absorbed into it.
KKKKULTUR: KITSCH & CAMP IN A LA RECHERCHE DU TEMPS PERDU (4)
Oscar Wilde's fall came about because he felt obliged to sue for libel at being accused of `posing as a sodomite' -- he was not even being called a sodomite, just that he was acting like one.
WAS `K' GAY?
It does so even while condemning in the most vituperative terms "the Sodomite men's proclaimed preference for making love with males" (13).
Courtly Desire and Medieval Homophobia: The Legitimation of Sexual Pleasure in Cleanness and Its Contexts
was casting Sullivan as a sodomite Christ quavering to the Prophet Peretz.
Sullivan: who cares?
Damian could use the figure of the sodomite to restore to working order the economy of meaning and of memory that had broken down in Glaber's text.
Cities of the plain: the rhetoric of sodomy in Peter Damian's "book of Gomorrah."
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