Deconstructing what we think we see may well involve reconstructing ourselves in surprising and unanticipated ways." Buggery
"an adequate and imaginative reading involves a series of intertextual interventions in which histories become stories, fabrications and reconstructions in lively debate with, and around, 'dominant' heterosexualities. In this regard, Ian McCormick has argued that In the course of the eighteenth century, what is identifiable as sodomy often becomes identified with effeminacy, for example, or in opposition to a discourse of manliness. Sodomy is both a real occurrence and an imagined category. While religion and the law have had a fundamental role in the historical definition and punishment of sodomy, sodomitical texts present considerable opportunities for ambiguity and interpretation. Its direct reference is to Lot (لوط Lūṭ in Arabic) and a more literal interpretation of the word is "the practice of Lot", but more accurately it means "the practice of Lot's people" (the Sodomites) rather than Lot himself.
In Arabic and Persian, the word for sodomy, لواط (Arabic pronunciation: liwāṭ Persian pronunciation lavât), is derived from the same source as in Western culture, with much the same connotations as English (referring to most sexual acts prohibited by the Qur'an). In Danish, sodomi is rendered as "unnatural carnal knowledge with someone of the same sex or (now) with animals". The Norwegian word sodomi carries both senses. In modern German, the word Sodomie has no connotation of anal or oral sex and specifically refers to bestiality. In those languages, the term is also often current vernacular (not just legal, unlike in other cultures) and a formal way of referring to any practice of anal penetration the word sex is commonly associated with consent and pleasure with regard to all involved parties and often avoids directly mentioning two common aspects of social taboo – human sexuality and the anus – without a shunning or archaic connotation to its use. Many cognates in other languages, such as French sodomie (verb sodomiser), Spanish sodomía (verb sodomizar), and Portuguese sodomia (verb sodomizar), are used exclusively for penetrative anal sex, at least since the early nineteenth century. (The word 'sod' also has a meaning of "(clump of) earth" with an unrelated etymology, in which sense it is rare but not offensive.) Sod is used as slang in the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth and is considered mildly offensive. It is a general-purpose insult term for anyone the speaker dislikes without specific reference to their sexual behaviour. The word sod, a noun or verb (to "sod off") used as an insult, is derived from sodomite. These laws in the United States have been challenged and have sometimes been found unconstitutional or been replaced with different legislation. Laws prohibiting sodomy were seen frequently in past Jewish, Christian, and Islamic civilizations, but the term has little modern usage outside Africa, Asia, and the United States. In current usage, the term is particularly used in law. Then the angels strike the Sodomites blind, "so that they wearied themselves to find the door" (Genesis 19:4–11, KJV). Lot protests that the "messengers" are his guests and offers the Sodomites his virgin daughters instead, but then they threaten to "do worse" with Lot than they would with his guests. The men of Sodom surround Lot's house and demand that he bring the messengers out so that they may "know" them (the expression includes sexual connotations). Two angels are invited by Lot to take refuge with his family for the night. Genesis (chapters 18–20) tells how God wished to destroy the "sinful" cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. The term is derived from the Ecclesiastical Latin peccatum Sodomiticum or "sin of Sodom", which in turn comes from the Ancient Greek word Σόδομα (Sódoma).