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There would be a quite easy explanation. It would be considered a sin for men who could be impregnating women to refuse to sleep with women, because they are sexually attracted to men. The same for women who refuse to sleep with men to become pregnant (although women really didn't have much of a choice in this back then anyway) rather to be with other women. Much of the thinking back then was to propagate the species. People who were not working towards this, especially who were not in high enough positions to really complain, would be viewed as sinning.
Today, we are pretty much overpopulated (at least if you consider are use of available resources), so propagating the species is not really important enough for most people to consider it a sin if a person, male or female, chooses for whatever reason not to do it.
Again, this strikes me as an attempt to wiggle around what the Bible actually says. The proof of that is that you have to ignore the fact that scripture condemns homosexuality in many different places, and does not specifically address that it is because of an avoidance of reproduction.