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Ahh--SODOMY is not "oral sex."

And I don't know you well enough to describe it accurately to you. Look in a good dictionary.

SODOMY is not "oral sex."

Depends. Sodomy laws have covered many different sexual acts. Just about anything, including sex outside of marriage, has been covered under a sodomy law somewhere.

The statute in question prohibited both oral and anal sex. I am aware that in common discourse, sodomy refers to anal sex, but legally the definion of sodomy prohibits both.

>>The appli-cable state law is Tex. Penal Code Ann. §21.06(a) (2003). It provides: “A person commits an offense if he engages in deviate sexual intercourse with another individual of the same sex.” The statute defines “[d]eviate sexual inter-course” as follows:
“(A) any contact between any part of the genitals of one person and the mouth or anus of another person; or
“(B) the penetration of the genitals or the anus of an-other person with an object.” §21.01(1).<<

BTW, the opinion only strikes down homosexual sodomy, but by extension would also strike down laws against heterosexual sodomy, which until today was a class six felony in Virginia (we call it a "crime against nature" here):

§ 18.2-361. Crimes against nature.

A. If any person carnally knows in any manner any brute animal, or carnally knows any male or female person by the anus or by or with the mouth, or voluntarily submits to such carnal knowledge, he or she shall be guilty of a Class 6 felony, except as provided in subsection B.

B. Any person who carnally knows by the anus or by or with the mouth his daughter or granddaughter, son or grandson, brother or sister, or father or mother shall be guilty of a Class 5 felony. However, if a parent or grandparent commits any such act with his child or grandchild and such child or grandchild is at least thirteen but less than eighteen years of age at the time of the offense, such parent or grandparent shall be guilty of a Class 3 felony.

(Code 1950, § 18.1-212; 1960, c. 358; 1968, c. 427; 1975, cc. 14, 15; 1977, c. 285; 1981, c. 397; 1993, c. 450.)

Depends on where you are - at least for purposes of the law. Here in Georgia, the legal definition of sodomy explicitly includes oral sex.

"Ahh--SODOMY is not "oral sex."

In Texas it is.