Two angels are invited by Lot to take refuge with his family for the night. 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.
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. Then the angels strike the Sodomites blind, "so that they wearied themselves to find the door. In current usage, the term is particularly used in law. 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 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 βhuman sexuality and the anusβwithout a shunning or archaic connotation to its use.
In modern German , the word Sodomie has no connotation of anal or oral sex and specifically refers to bestiality. The Norwegian word sodomi carries both senses. In Danish , sodomi is rendered as "unnatural carnal knowledge with someone of the same sex or now with animals ".
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The word sod , a noun or verb to "sod off" used as an insult, is derived from sodomite. Sod is used as slang in the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth and is considered mildly offensive. However, in New Zealand and Australia it is not considered offensive at all, but only 'coarse', because it is locally assumed, even if incorrectly, that it refers to 'sod' as in a wet clump of dirt.
