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sodomy

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Carnal copulation in a manner against nature; buggery.

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Homosexuality appears as one of the forms of sexuality when it was transposed from the practice of sodomy onto a kind of interior androgyny, a hermaphroditism of the soul. The sodomite had been a temporary aberration; the homosexual was now a species. Michel Foucault

It is impossible to obtain a conviction for sodomy from an English jury. Half of them don't believe that it can physically be done, and the other half are doing it. Winston Churchill

The world is full of double beds And most delightful maidenheads, Which being so, there's no excuse For sodomy or self-abuse. Hilaire Belloc

To hold that the act of homosexual sodomy is somehow protected as a fundamental right would be to cast aside millennia of moral teaching. Warren E. Burger

One might as well legalise sodomy as recognise the Bolsheviks. Winston Churchill

In English-speaking countries, the connection between heresy and homosexuality is expressed through the use of a single word to denote both concepts: buggery. ... Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (Third Edition) defines "buggery” as "heresy, sodomy.”. Thomas Szasz

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