That the husband has committed rape, sodomy or bestiality.
Sodomy is common; the Kaviaks practice polygamy and incest; the Kadiaks cohabit promiscuously, brothers and sisters, parents and children.
Sodomy was practiced by the nations of Cueba, Careta, and other places.
Indeed, so closely was sodomy associated with heresy that the same name was applied to both.
Now we know that sodomy entered as an element in their religion.
He says that they indulge in sodomy because too great increase of population is undesired amongst the younger portion of the married people.
So also the Hebrews abhorrence of sodomy was largely due to their hatred of a foreign cult.
And it can certainly not be admitted that the severe Jewish law against sodomy was simply due to the fact that the enlargement of the population was a strongly felt social need among the Jews.
To punish sodomy with death, it was said, is atrocious; when unconnected with violence, the law ought to take no notice of it at all.
In mediæval laws sodomy was also repeatedly mentioned together with heresy, and the punishment was the same for both.
In Mexico, those who committed sodomywere hanged; in Tezcuco, the punishment for unnatural crime was characteristically brutal.
It is there maintained that bysodomy as well as by pederasty (specifically coitus in anum and also in os is meant) the generation of a monster is possible.
This fear of excess of population caused Aristotle to advice the men to shun their wives and to indulge in sodomy instead.
Before him Socrates had already extolled sodomy as a mark of superior culture.
Sodomy is far more widespread than most of us imagine; the secret documents of many police departments might reveal appalling facts.
The medical certificate which accompanied him here stated: "Patient has been convicted of sodomyand is at present serving sentence for same.
According to this account he must have begun to practicesodomy when he was ten years of age, a vicious precocity which the author would doubtless explain on the theory of diabolical possession.
In the older criminal codes two kinds or degrees of sodomy are mentioned, gravius and gravissimum; the former being condemned in the thirteenth verse and the latter in the fifteenth and sixteenth verses of Leviticus.
Did you take him to your room, permit him to commit sodomywith and upon you, rob him of his pocket-book and threaten him with exposure if he complained?
He stated in so many words that Taylor had kept him at his rooms for a whole week during which time they rarely went out, and had repeatedly committed sodomy with him.
He was addicted to the vice and crime ofsodomy long before he formed a "friendship" which was destined to involve him in irretrievable ruin.
You say positively that Mr. Wilde committed sodomy with you at the Savoy?
He was asked point-blank if he had not been given to sodomy from his early youth, and if he had not been expelled from a public-school for being caught in a compromising situation with a small boy in the lavatory.
Mr. Gill endeavoured to show that Taylor himself was given to sodomy and that he had himself indulged in these filthy practices with the same youths as he agreed to procure for Wilde.
Lastly, why does not this inconsistent puritan purge the Old Testament of its allusions to human ordure and the pudenda; to carnal copulation and impudent whoredom, to adultery and fornication, to onanism, sodomy and bestiality?
The negro race is mostly untainted bysodomy and tribadism.
A glance at Mr. Bancroft[FN#413] proves the abnormal development of sodomy amongst the savages and barbarians of the New World.
The verdict was incomplete sodomy and simple fornication.
The French officer, who is thoroughly trustworthy, draws the darkest picture of the widely spread criminality, especially of the bestiality and the sodomy (chaps.
In 1905 he was convicted of sodomy and sentenced to life imprisonment.
According to his own statement, during his term at Burnham the practice of sodomy was fairly common, and the boys often talked about it, but in his opinion did not regard it as a serious offence.
In speaking ofsodomy we shall see that this instinctive repulsion may disappear in pathological cases, both in man and in animals, owing to bad habits or unsatisfied sexual appetite.
According to the legend, sodomy was a vice of the inhabitants; is this why it is punished at the present day?
The man who lives alone, or surrounded only by the members of his family becomes disposed to certain sexual anomalies, such as incest, sodomy and masturbation.
Moreover, the question of property does not trouble the judge, for he punishes sodomy even when the culprit owns the animal.
It is needless to say that cases of sodomy complicated by cruelty or sadism, should be judged differently.
But some developed a peculiar liking for the passive act of sodomyor the anomalous act of fellatio.
The attempt to commit sodomy is punishable with ten years' penal servitude as a maximum.
Sodomy is a felony, defined as the carnal knowledge (per anum) of any man or of any woman by a male person; punishable with penal servitude for life as a maximum, for ten years as a minimum.
If a prisoner committed sodomy or other infamous crime against nature, while in custody, he was castrated, and if he still persisted in committing crimes against nature, he was chloroformed.
In mediaeval laws sodomy was also repeatedly mentioned together with heresy, and the punishment was the same for both.
The instinct for sodomy in the proper sense of the word used to be unintelligible to me; since the object of attraction has become a woman this instinct is mixed with the normal in my desire.
Beardmore also notes that sodomy is "regularly indulged in" in New Guinea on this account.
The merely animal sodomy which exists in many public schools was unknown.
Justinian, Charlemagne, and St. Louis had insisted on the sin and sacrilege of sodomy as the ground for its punishment.
But in the Rigo district of British New Guinea, where habitual sodomyis not practised, Dr.
A few years later, at the beginning of the fourteenth century, sodomy was still regarded as very prevalent.
This story furnishes a sufficiently good ground for the use of the term, though the Jews do not regard sodomy as the sin of Sodom, but rather inhospitality and hardness of heart to the poor (J.
Notwithstanding its prevalence, sodomy was still severely punished from time to time.
In mediæval times, as Schultz points out, references to sodomy in Germany were far from uncommon.
And Professor Haddon tells me that at Torres Straits a native advocated sodomy on this ground.
Ordericus Vitalis, who was himself half Norman and half English, says that the Normans had become very effeminate in his time, and that after the death of William the Conqueror sodomy was common both in England and Normandy.
Cases of effeminatio and passive sodomy have been reported from Unyamwezi and Uganda.
In 1721 a religious young man, married, was convicted of attempting sodomywith two young men he slept with; he was fined, placed in the pillory and imprisoned for two months.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sodomy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
