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deviate:

Or: deviant , pejorative term for:

1. Since the 19 th century, a homosexual or sex pervert , based on the premise that anything other than heterosexuality is abnormal .

2. Since the late 1980s, a person, event, or sexual-behavior that differs from the accepted norm of a particular society. Sex educators and therapsits prefer the more neutral: variant or sexually-nonconforming .


See Also: aberrant, aberrant sex, aberration, anomalous, deviant, deviant sexual behavior, heteroclite, sexual aberration, sexual deviance, sexual deviancy, sexual deviation, unnatural act, unnatural sex, unnatural sin

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