Common
Female sodomy
Category of female sexual activities
Female sodomy
Female sodomy is a general category of sexual or erotic activities enacted between women. It was codified as a legal category in medieval and early modern Europe, although it differed greatly between regions. Female sodomy is distinct from the social and legal category of (male) sodomy due to the significant differences in the way women accused of sodomy were seen in society and treated within the court system. A person who commits sodomy is sometimes referred to as a sodomite. Notable historical female sodomites include Katherina Hetzeldorfer and Benedetta Carlini. The legal definition of sodomy in many places required an act of "unnatural penetration" and could therefore not be easily extrapolated to apply to the persecution of female sodomy. Due to the rigidity of social and legal categories of gender, any expression of sexuality that did not fit into the heterosexual paradigm was seen as a transgression of sexual and gendered norms. Female sodomy was therefore typically punished more...
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