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:
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
No one can say that it was by being prevented from legitimate intercourse that they came to this pass or that it was from having no means to fulfill their desire that they were driven into this monstrous insanity…. What is contrary to nature has something irritating and displeasing in it, so that they could not even claim to be getting pleasure out of it. For genuine pleasure comes from following what is according to nature. But when God abandons a person to his own devices, then everything is turned upside down. Thus not only was their doctrine satanic, but their life was too…. How disgraceful it is when even the women sought after these things, when they ought to have a greater sense of shame than men have.
