thursdayafternoon
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For sexual perversions in general? Same-sex, pedo, incest. As it wouldn't be appropriate to make direct references to sexual perversions in a holy book? If some concepts are not covered, our primitive nature may relapse. Most searched words on porn sites: mother, father, sister etc. For example, old and attractive women are called MILF, "Mother i'd like to fuck". Combining motherhood with sexual attraction. Words are magical. It designs our mind. (or parts) That's why a sexual perversion shouldn't be told as an erotic story in a scripture. Some things should stay covered.Yes!
In this case, strange means something different and distinct from mankind, as a whole.
Check out the interlinear.
Also-- when you look at how the verse is written, you notice it would be redundant if strange flesh was a reference to homosexuality.
--Sodom and Gomorrah...having given themselves over to- sexual immorality [ekporneusasai]-- also written as fornication, which covers everything, including homosexuality. - and -- gone after strange [heteras] flesh...JUDE 1:7
"Gone after" means to run after that for which one lusts-- the general sense however is that of Relapse. LINK
**** It doesn't mean any of the pagan practices were given a free pass by God-- far from it. ****
Rather it adds another dimension and clarifies what was really going on in the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, that caused Him to rain down burning sulphur --> fire and brimstone-- and turn those cities and its inhabitants to ash.
In other words... it wasn't limited to homosexuality. Though it was certainly present, and perhaps a contributing factor, I don't think it was the primary reason for melting the cities.
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Of course I don't know how to combine that with Lot's story with his daughters in the Bible. I'm not christian. I'm Muslim. The Quran is a better book in this respect.