Sotadic Zone
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English
Etymology
Coined by British explorer, army officer, writer and scholar Richard Francis Burton in 1886.
Proper noun
- (now historical) A region of the world, approximately defined as a strip of Afroeurasia from the Mediterranean region eastward as well as the entirety of the Americas, in which male homosexuality was supposed to be societally prevalent.
- 1894, Richard Francis Burton, “Terminal Essay”, in The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume X, London: H.S. Nichols & Co.:
- Within the Sotadic Zone the Vice is popular and endemic, held at the worst to be a mere peccadillo, whilst the races to the North and South of the limits here defined practice it only sporadically amid the opprobrium of their fellows who, as a rule, are physically incapable of performing the operation and look upon it with the liveliest disgust.
Further reading
Richard Francis Burton § Sotadic Zone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
