Sodom and Gomorrah
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
"No woman was admitted to these masculine orgies, in the course of which everything of the lewdest invented in Sodom and Gomorrah was executed." --The 120 Days of Sodom (1785|1904) by Marquis de Sade "Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven."--Book of Genesis |
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According to the Book of Genesis, Sodom and Gomorrah were two cities destroyed by God for their sins.
For the sins of their inhabitants Sodom, Gomorrah were destroyed by "brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven". Since then, their names are synonymous with impenitent sin, and their fall with a proverbial manifestation of God's wrath.
The story of Sodom has given rise to words in several languages, including English: the word "sodomy", meaning acts (stigmatized as "unnatural vice") such as homosexuality and anal sex, and the word "sodomite", meaning one who practices such acts. However, the name Sodom is derived from a Hebrew word meaning "burnt", and Gomorrah from a word meaning "buried", which are references to their destruction.
See also
- Bab edh-Dhra and Numeira, two adjacent archeological sites said by some to be the two cities' locations
- Christianity and homosexuality
- Christianity and sexual orientation
- Hospitium
- Homosexuality and Judaism
- Homosexuality and religion
- Homosexuality in the Hebrew Bible
- LGBT in Islam
- Levite's concubine – similar biblical narrative
- Religion and LGBT people
- The Bible and homosexuality
- Tripura, cities likewise destroyed by divine intervention as described in Hindu mythology
- Vayeira, the Torah portion concerning Sodom and Gomorrah
- Xenia