When people desert God they spend lots of energy trying to find solutions to life, and none of it works. They engaged in prostitution, but this did not lead to any increase in population. Wine destroyed the understanding of the people.
They consulted wooden idols, and so got answered by a stick of wood. This is an indictment of the futility of seeking idols. When men desert God they become stupid.
Mountain tops were common places for pagan worship. Pagan worship also commonly involved sexual promiscuity of all sorts.
In saying He will not punish the women God is not condoning their actions, rather He is condemning the men. They would have acted all self-righteous and punished the women, but the truth was that they were no better for they themselves went after harlots.
Israel was in a very sorry state. They were utterly committed to pagan ways.
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