# 7 – PAUL CONDEMNS SEXUAL ASSAULT, NOT CONSENSUAL GAY RELATIONS IN ROMANS.
In Romans (1:26-27) Paul composed, “Their ladies exchanged intercourse that is natural abnormal, plus in exactly the same way additionally the males, stopping normal sexual intercourse with females, had been consumed with passion for just one another. Guys committed shameless acts with males and gotten in their own personal people the penalty that is due their mistake.” Pertaining to guys, Paul is many addressing that is likely intercourse functions (which are shameful) by otherwise heterosexual men on guys.
He most likely will not phone them unnatural functions because their guide is certainly not to consensual relational intercourse, but assault that is sexual. Wealthy men that are greco-Roman their power and domination by penetrating reduced class males of every age. Paul might have kept out of the “unnatural” label for the men’s passion because he had been maybe not criticizing the victims that has no option within the functions; instead he had been criticizing the rich because of their functions of penetration of reluctant men.