From medieval Latin sodomia, from late Latin peccatum Sodomiticum ‘sin of Sodom," a reference to the city Sodom in Genesis 19 that was destroyed because of the sexual degeneration of its inhabitants. Originally, the term sodomy referred to all forms of sexual degeneration, but over the centuries the term has been reduced to being a reference only to homosexuality. When studying the scriptures, it is essential to define the term with its original meaning: all forms of sexual degeneration.