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6/30/2025, 5:44:43 AM
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>>The usurious economy remained ethically reprehensible tout court, at least according to traditional standards, but this was no longer an issue of personal morality. The same is increasingly true of concupiscent sexuality, or ‘sodomy,’ which is no more aberrational than usury in the postmodern context. It is important to remember that ‘sodomy’ is not exclusive to homosexuality. It was not particularly associated with homosexuality until the Enlightenment. Before the eighteenth century, as we shall see in the following chapters, the term might be used of any sexual act which was not aimed at reproduction, and all such acts were deemed unnatural. In fact, ‘sodomy’ was often just as likely to denote commercial sex as homosexuality: the King James Bible (1611) gives ‘sodomitress’ as a translation of ‘whore.’6 If we seek a twenty-first century equivalent of ‘sodomy,’ the merged prostitution and pornography so prevalent on the internet might be the closest. The vice could involve any erotic focus on the body, regardless of gender, and it could manifest itself in any non-procreative sexual act, including masturbation. The idea that sodomy might be restricted to ‘homosexuals’ or ‘queers’ is specific to modernity and, like usury, the concept of sodomy is distorted when conceived as limited to any particular group of people.

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