Leviticus 18:22

Nor with a male person shalt thou lie as with a woman; it is an abhorrent thing.

with a man We have seen from the verse “I have lain with my father last night” [Genesis 19:34] that the verb “to lie” may be used both by men and by women to denote sexual intercourse. Thus, this commandment applies equally to a pederast and to a catamite. The phrase coition with a woman [literally: coitions with a woman] has caused a great deal of trouble, on account of the plural noun. Rabbi Ḥanan’el ben Ḥushi’el, may he rest in peace, said that there are men who graft something on to their bodies which has the appearance of the female organ. Others speak of a hermaphrodite. One person claims that Scripture here alludes to the two different ways one may have intercourse with a woman; therefore, homosexual intercourse is forbidden, whether it is done the standard way, or a nonstandard way. The truth is, in my opinion, that the commandment is to be understood simply and literally. The Hebrew word “coition” sometimes means “ejaculation”; this is why the word coitions appears in the plural. The Sages have declared that homosexual intercourse, like the other sexual crimes, is punishable by death [Yevamot 83b]. Do not lie Scripture speaks delicately, as in the phrase “Do not draw near” [:19]. Since Man was designed to be dominant, and Woman was designed to be submissive, Scripture warns us not to reverse the will of God. To dwell on this subject any further is distasteful.

It is an abomination [Hebrew: to‘eva] something which is naturally abhorred [Hebrew: nit‘av] by a refined spirit.

Now the reason for the prohibitions against lying carnally with a male, or an animal, is well-known, as it is an abominable act and is not for the preservation of the human species, because [the copulation] of [male and male or of] man and animal will not beget offspring. And Rabbi Abraham ibn Ezra commented: “Since we find [Lot’s daughter using] the expression, Behold, ‘shachavti’ (I lay) yesternight with my father, [and she did not say, nishkavti, in the passive, or “Behold, shachav imi avi, — my father lay with me,” this shows that the term shachav, although in the active form, refers to the person who commits that act as well as the passive partner who permits herself or himself to be thus abused]; thus it follows that the verse, And with a male ‘lo thishkav’ (thou shalt not lie), constitutes a prohibition both against the one who actively commits pederasty, and against the one who permits himself to be thus abused.” [Thus far are the words of Ibn Ezra.] But if it be as Ibn Ezra said, why is the woman not included in the verse, And thou shalt not lie with any beast, [and it is clear that she is not so included from the fact that Scripture had to continue, Neither shall any woman stand before a beast, to lie down thereto], for women are included in all admonitions of the Torah? Rather, the use of the expression, Behold, ‘shachavti’ (I lay) yesternight with my father is due to the fact that it was Lot’s daughters who, through lying with him, [were instrumental in that affair] in order to beget seed of him. As is known, the seed comes either from the movement of the whole body, just as foam is formed in the mouths of galloping horses, or it is brought forth in the veins nearby [the sexual organ], where it gathers by the continuing motion thereof until it is emitted. Were they then not to have lain with Lot, his seed would not have come forth, for in his drunkenness he was like a silent stone.