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From: bnapl@burdvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Myth for Whom?
Message-ID: <1973@burdvax.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 16-Mar-85 11:31:25 EST
Article-I.D.: burdvax.1973
Posted: Sat Mar 16 11:31:25 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 19-Mar-85 04:27:28 EST
References: <1958@sdcc6.UUCP> <cmu-cs-k.300>
Reply-To: bnapl@burdvax.UUCP (Tom Albrecht)
Organization: Burroughs Corp. - SDG/Devon
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Summary: 

In article <cmu-cs-k.300> tim@cmu-cs-k.ARPA (Tim Maroney) writes:
>Don't be ridiculous!  "Sodomize" has nothing (necessarily) to do with
>bestiality.  It is a reference to anal intercourse.  The word derives from
>"Sodom", through folk mythology.
>-=-

It may be mythology to your folk, but don't include mine.-:)

But seriously, Webster's New Collegiate defines it as "copulation with a
member of the same sex or with an ANIMAL" although the common usage may
more properly refer to homosexual activity.

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Tom Albrecht 		Burroughs Corp.
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