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n the circle of the lustful and the!

in the seventh circle of hell, which is reserved for the violent; it is considered to be violent because it is a perversion of nature. The practice of homosexuality is recognized as an unnatural sin, as opposed to the sin of lust, which is defined by the natural desire of beauty between man and woman that is wrongly practiced. The natural motion of the soul is constant ascension, in which the ends bring the soul to be one with god. In Canto XV, Dante describes the punishment for sodomy during a brief encounter with three sodomites: "and when they reached us, then they started circling; the three together formed a turning wheel... And circling this way each kept his face pointed at me, so that their necks and feet moved constantly in opposite directions" (21-27). The circling motion made by the sodomites represents the unnatural mo

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