N. T. Wright states, “There are no surprises on this in the Bible. For Jews, homosexual behavior wasn’t an issue [because it was assumedly out of bounds], except as part of a larger whole to which Jesus refers in traditional biblical terms. For non-Jews, such as those addressed by Paul, it was an obvious issue, since every possible kind of sexual expression was well known in cities like Corinth and Rome (there is a popular belief just now that the ancients didn’t know about lifelong same-sex relationships, but this is easily refuted by the evidence both literary and archaeological).”40
