Not inhabitants of Sodom, but those "devoted" (qedeeshim) to unnatural lust in Ashtoreth's honour, as a religious rite! (; ; ; margin) There were women similarly "desecrated" to lust as a religious rite (-22; ; translated ), "the dogs licked his blood while the 'harlots' (zonot) were bathing in the pool" early in the morning, as their custom was. So Septuagint.