ways. He is concerned with societal patterns, not with tracing in detail the genesis of every form of deviant behavior.46 The conjunction γάρ (“for”) introduces two particular examples of “disgraceful passions” (linked by a τε … τε construction). Picking up the word “exchanged” (μετήλλαξαν) from v. 25, Paul says literally, “Their females exchanged natural sexual intercourse for what is unnatural.” Repetition of this verb suggests that an exchange in human relationships is directly linked to exchanging