Commentary for Yevamot 110:9

אלא אמר רבא פרט לשקינא לה דרך אברים א"ל אביי פריצותא אסר רחמנא

of the sotah? — Such as was taught: Carnally<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The expression 'carnally' in Num. V, 13. ');">²²</span> excludes [the case where the husband's warning was] concerning something else. What is meant by 'something else'? R. Shesheth replied: The exclusion is the case where he warned her concerning unnatural intercourse. Said Raba to him: The text reads, As with womankind!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lev. XVIII, 22, in which natural and unnatural intercourse are regarded as analogous (v. Sanh. 54a). What matters it then for which she was warned! ');">²³</span> — Rather, said Raba, the exclusion is the case where the husband's warning concerned lecherous contact of her limbs. Said Abaye to him: Has the All Merciful forbidden [a wife to her husband] because of obscenity?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Surely not. For mere laxity, in the absence of adultery, a wife would not have been subjected to such a severe penalty. What need then was there to state the obvious? ');">²⁴</span>

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