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Sodomy

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

sodomy


[Anglo-French sodomie sexual intercourse between men, from Old French, from Late Latin Sodoma Sodom, from the supposed homosexual practices of the men of the city in Genesis 19:1-11]
: the crime of oral or anal sexual contact or penetration between persons or of sexual intercourse between a person and an animal
;esp
: the crime of forcing another person to perform oral or anal sex
sod·om·ize [sÄ -də-mīz]
vt




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