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Coined by British explorer, army officer, writer and scholar Richard Francis Burton in 1886.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sotadic Zone
Today it means: 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. Full definition →