Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
From: hoey@AIC.NRL.Navy.Mil (Dan Hoey)
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1993 15:53:54 GMT
Subject: Re: Odd sins

c...@merit.edu (Chris Weider) writes:

>Everyone knows what sodomy is,

fl...@dgp.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal) writes:

>Not so.  Some people say it's anal sex (most common), some say it's
>bestiality (e.g. Woody Allen's Everything You Wanted to Know About
>Sex), and I've also heard it used to refer to manual-genital sex.
klu...@grissom.larc.nasa.gov (Scott Dorsey) mentions:

>The legal definition in Virginia applies to all of the above.  In addition,
>there are several positions of conventional intercourse which the law
>defines as sodomy.  Oral sex also is defined as sodomy in all cases.

The Washington, DC sodomy law included at least anal-genital and
oral-genital, but omitted any restriction on manual-anal or oral-anal
acts.  That's moot now, though, because the occupational government
has permitted us to repeal the law entirely.  Thank you, Massa Congress.

Dan Hoey
Hoey@AIC.NRL.Navy.Mil