47 Lin,

You said:

Did it ever occur to us that by women turing to man instead of God and being dominated by man that she then became a sex object? Good only for having sex and babies in the eyes of many throughout history? We see how this thinking has progressed throughout history into porn and sex being preached in the pulpits. Now, we even have John Piper defining what is beauty in a woman as in gentle and quiet as if these are not qualities for a man, too.

This is an excellent point! Woman in the garden was not a “sex object” and marital unity would have included an intimate relationship in all areas. It wasn’t until after the fall that sex was taken outside of the emotional/spiritual intimacy.