What does "sodomy" mean?

Any of several forms of sexual intercourse held to be unnatural, particularly bestiality or homosexuality, but also (sometimes) anal, oral, or manual sex.

What is a synonym for "sodomy"?

Common synonyms include: anal sex, bestiality, buggery, bestiality, anal intercourse, anal sex.

Sodomy

//ˈsɒdəmi// noun

noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1
Any of several forms of sexual intercourse held to be unnatural, particularly bestiality or homosexuality, but also (sometimes) anal, oral, or manual sex. countable, uncountable
"Mr. Shakur and his road manager, Charles Fuller, 24, were convicted Dec. 1 of first-degree sexual abuse, but they were acquitted of weapons and sodomy charges."
2
intercourse via the anus, committed by a man with a man or woman wordnet
3
Anal sex. countable, uncountable
"The only published study (Feigen, 1954), which looked at 68 adults engaging in consensual anal sex, found that “it was not possible to relate the appearance of the anus to the practice of sodomy; there was no appreciable difference of the anus in those who practiced sodomy frequently and those that practiced it rarely" (p. 81)."
4
sexual activity between a person and an animal wordnet