| 词汇 | sodomite |
| 词源 | sodomite; sodomy. Sodom and Gomorrah, the twin sin Cit- ies of the Plain in the Bible, have long represented male and female vice respectively—a Gomorrhean, in fact, meaning a lesbian in 16th-century England. A sodomite is one who prac- tices sodomy, “unnatural intercourse with a human or animal,” such practices being attributed to Sodom’s male inhabitants. The story of Sodom and Gomorrah is told in Genesis 18:19. Old Testament scholars believe the story is a mythological at- tempt to account for the destruction of a city once located near the Dead Sea. See sod. |
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