Sotadic Zone

English Etymology en Q125057 1886 1. Proper noun Sotadic zone 1 en 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. en 1894 X H.S. Nichols & Co. London Terminal Essay w:Richard Francis Burton The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night 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