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 .

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