Аннотация:The article draws attention to the issue of sexual tolerance as reflected in the language. The approach is based on the assumption that every phenomenon must be verbally expressed and registered by any language. If the vocabulary doesn’t include the words reflecting this or that phenomenon, then we should state that the phenomenon was not topical or present in the life of the society. Special attention is paid to the understanding of the term “tolerance” in different societies, namely, in Western and Russian civilizations as well as to the approaches to the term’s implicit meanings. The focus lies in diachronic plane and the sexual tolerance is investigated as the result of the impact having been exercised by different substrates.