Etymology From Middle English sodomyte, sodomite, from Old French Sodomite and Latin sodomīta, from Ancient Greek σοδομίτης (sodomítēs). Equivalent to Sodom + -ite.
There ſhalbe no whoꝛe of the daughters of Iſrael, noꝛ a Sodomite of the ſonnes of Iſrael.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Deuteronomy 23:17:
The Avestan texts denounce the sodomite as a demon[…]1922, Maneckji Nusservanji Dhalla, Zoroastrian Civilization, page 113:
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For example, when one of his programmers and her husband engaged in oral sex in their own bedroom one night, the next morning she was called into Rife's office, where he called her a slut and a sodomite and told her to clean out the desk.1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 107:
An inhabitant of Sodom, or (by extension) a descendant of one.
The story of the people of Lot related in the Quran is often taken to mean that God condemns sodomites2012, Samar Habib, Female Homosexuality in the Middle East, chapter 3