What is it about?
The sins against nature had , at least, two different variations: bestiallity and sodomy. This last one had two versions: perfect (homoerotic) and imperfect ( heteroerotic) . Just a few Iberic Inquisitorial tribunals had the power to judge it -Portuguese and Valencian tribunals-, in the rest of the cases, it was part of civil jurisdiction. Nowadays, there were some people who were accussed in the Mexican Inquisition; the tribunal did not judge these persons, but it kept the accusations. These accusations shows how there were some sexual practices allowed by the law, but socially penalized.
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Why is it important?
It is a window to the everyday sexual life and show the confrontation of values and the permeability of the domestic life,
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This page is a summary of: Sujeitos sem história, prática calada e marcas apagadas: a sodomia imperfeita ante o Santo Ofício do México, Topoi (Rio de Janeiro), December 2004, FapUNIFESP (SciELO),
DOI: 10.1590/2237-101x005009001.
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