CHAT: closet conlanging >> definitions?

On Tue, 12 Jan 1999 15:58:33 GMT+0 And Rosta <a.rosta@...>
writes:
>> Oh, and did I mention that in slightly less than half the states
>sodomy is
>> still a crime and that nowhere in the world do we enjoy full and
>equal
>> marriage rights (not even in the Scandinavian countries)?
>I hope you, as a conlanger, will be reassured to know that in Livagia
>(where I would reside if I could) sodomy is not a crime, and is not
>socially stigmatized (under any definitions of "sodomy" except sex
>with
>nonhuman mammals), and that homosexual marriage has always been a
>legal
>and wholly accepted part of society. I regard the continuing failure
>of the
>real world to emulate Livagia's example as a continuing outrage made
>tolerable
>only by the fact of one's own impotence to end it.
I thought that "sodomy" meant _homosexual *rape*_, and not just sex
between members of the same sex.  Isn't the word based on the Biblical
story of Lot and the Angels in Sdom, where Lot's evil neighbors told him
to send out his guests, because they wanted to rape them?

-Stephen (Steg)

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