Sodomist (Noun)
Meaning
Someone who engages in anal copulation (especially a male who engages in anal copulation with another male).
Classification
Nouns denoting people.
Examples
- The ancient Greeks wrote about the sodomist relationships between certain gods and mortal males in some of their mythological stories.
- Historical texts described the execution of a sodomist in medieval Europe for violating the laws of the time.
- Oscar Wilde, who was known to engage in same-sex relationships, was also described as a sodomist by some during his trial in the late 1800s.
- Medieval clergy often preached about the dangers of the sodomist lifestyle to their congregations.
- Some historians argue that the term sodomist was often misused in ancient and medieval texts to describe any person who engaged in non-procreative or socially unacceptable sex acts.