579-81), and Christian theologians also, both Catholic and Protestant (see, e.g., _Jahrbuch fuer sexuelle Zwischenstufen_, vol.iv, p.

199, and Hirschfeld, _Homosexualitaet_, p.

742), have argued that it was not homosexuality, but their other offenses, which provoked the destruction of the Cities of the Plain.

In Germany "sodomy" has long been used to denote bestiality, or sexual intercourse with animals, but this use of the term is quite unjustified.

In English there is another term, "buggery," identical in meaning with sodomy, and equally familiar.