Sotadic zoneとは 意味・読み方・使い方

固有名詞

the Sotadic Zone

1. (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