John Gill Commentary Romans 1:26

"For this cause God gave them up unto vile passions: for their women changed the natural use into that which is against nature:" — Romans 1:26 (ASV)

For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections
Because of their idolatrous practices, God left them to very dishonourable actions, sodomitical ones, both among the men and women:

for even the women did change the natural use into that which is
against nature ;
either by prostituting themselves to, and complying with the "sodomitical" embraces of men, in a way that is against nature ^F8 ; or by making use of such ways and methods with themselves, or other women, to gratify their lusts, which were never designed by nature for such an use: of these vicious women, and their practices, Seneca ^F9 speaks, when he says,

``libidine veto nec maribus quidem cedunt, pati natae; Dii illas Deoeque, male perdant; adeo perversum commentae, genus impudicitiae, viros ineunt:'' also Clemens Alexandrinus <sup>F11</sup> has respect to such, saying, ``(gunaikev andrizontai para fusin, gamou men ai te kai) (gamousai gunaikev)'' and such there were among the Jews, whom they call (wzb wz twllwomx) (Myvn) ^F12 , and whom the priests were forbidden to marry.

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FOOTNOTES:

• F8: Vid. R. Sol Jarchi in Gen. xxiv. 16.
• F9: Epist. 95.
• F11: Paedagog. l. 3. p. 226.
• F12: T. Bab. Sabbat, fol. 65. 2. Piske Tosaph. ib. artic. 266. Yevamot, fol. 76. 1. & Piske Tosaph. ib. art. 141. Maimonides in Misn. Sanhedrin, c. 7. sect. 4. & Hilchot Issure Bia, c. 21. sect. 8, 9.