The crime of femenine sodomy in the owrk of franciscan father sinistrati d’ameno, de sodomía tractatus

Abstract

De Sodomía tractatus is, to say the least, a singular work by Franciscan Father SinistratiD'Ameno. Written in the middle of the XVIII^th century, the author shows us, in a more or less orderly way, the doctrinal construction of the crime of sodomy, located within the crimes that, converted in nefando sins, attempt against nature. Assimilated to the mistake of lust, the crime of lesa majestad, and together with laziness and bestialism, sodomy is in charge of punishing, and very harshly, those sexual conducts that are separated from the Christian orthodox and catholic moral, such as feminine and masculine homosexuality, and those heterosexual relations that are not aimed at procreation. And in all this controverted doctrinal-judicial, civil, canonic interconections, Sinistrati shows us his particular theory of the nymphium as a sine qua non natural condition, which joined to guilty will, irremediably punishes feminine homosexual sodomy.