origin of ‘sodomy’ and about sodomy

since there had been and still is many news on this sodomy issue in malaysiakini, here’s some lessons on sodomy by yours truly.

do you know that the word ‘sodomy’ had its origin from the bible? yes, indeed, in the story of sodom and gomorrah taken from the book of genesis in the bible. sodom and gomorrah are 2 cities in ancient palestine. according to the bible, the people of sodom are ‘living in wicked ways’ thus god send fire and brimstones to destroy the cities.

what wicked ways? well, the men like to have sex with men! the story went that this person by the name of lot in sodom, had 2 angels as guests. when the men of sodom knew about it, they marched to lot’s house and demanded that lot handed the 2 angels to them as they said "where are the men who came to your house tonight? bring them out to us that we may have intimacies with them."

see? ‘have intimacies with them’. well lot pleaded with them not to and even offered his own daughters to them but the men refused and instead got violent and wanted to tear lot’s house down to get to the 2 angels. what happened next? read further from the bible!

well so you see, it is because the city of sodom, the men’s evil way is having sex with the same person, that the word ‘sodomy’ came from. nothing much was mentioned about gomorrah further down the line (but sodom was mentioned) so i guess that’s why we don’t see the word ‘gomorraised’ or ‘gomorry’ instead of ‘sodomy’. 🙂

although the dictionary do mention that ‘sodomy’ means copulation with the same sex, it also mention that it is anal or oral copulation with a member of the opposite sex. the sex dictionary has some interesting definitions of sodomy. one of them "a vague legal term for a variety of sexual-acts including sex between men (anal intercourse)"

yes although ‘sodomy’ means anal intercourse between same sex or diffrent sex but mostly it seems that everybody think it is anal intercourse between men.

and why is "he sodomise me" sounds so wrong, just like, "he rape me"?? is sodomy a crime like rape? apparently it is in our country. well if sodomy means anal intercourse, it is just a form of sexual act, why is it wrong? unless of course only when the 2 parties invovled, one of them is not consenting, then it is wrong – then in this case not only sodomy but oral sex, natural sex, etc is consider wrong!!  so it shouldn’t be "he sodomise me" that is wrong by rather "he rape me by sodomising me".

i had said it before a person’s sexual orientation is none of our business. if it is true that anwar like to sodomise men BUT with the exception that the men he sodomised agreed for him to do it willingly, so what’s the big deal? it’s anwar’s personal life!

i notice that many people do agree on this point and some of them had found it sickening that the government had used this ‘sodomy’ issue to rally people against anwar. there is a petition on facebook "don’t let homophobia undermine democracy". please hop over there, read it (to understand what is homophobia, if you don’t yet) and endorse it. btw, this endorsement also appears in malaysiakini’s letter page.