For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
For this cause God gave them up (see the note at Romans 1:24 ) unto vile affections, х pathee (G3806) atimias (G819)] - 'shameless passions.' The expression is very strong, but not so strong as the monstrousness of the thing intended would have warranted.
For even their women - that sex whose priceless jewel and fairest ornament is modesty, and which, when that is once lost, not only becomes more shameless than the other sex, but lives henceforth only to drag the other sex down to its own level, "did change the natural use into that which is against nature:"