![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This is what our culture has done with sex. If you took off five of the strings and only had one remaining, you can strum that one string over and over again, but you wouldn’t be playing the guitar. People are not collections of body parts, they are people.įor a guitar to create the music it was made for, it must have all six strings attached and working. Forgive me for the gross example, but if you removed your hand and set it next to you on your desk, that hand would be an object. Objectification is when we turn a person into a collection of body parts, which are objects. Objectification is a mindset that is always present when lust is present, but objectification can also be present within a marriage, while lust cannot be. Lust and objectification are related but aren’t identical. This is using a woman for lust or objectification, rather than desiring her as a person." Their husbands aren’t emotionally invested in the relationship, don’t really care if their wife is interested in sex or not, apply pressure for sex, etc. Many women tell me that their husbands use them for sex, and they know it. "No woman, including your wife, is here on this earth to be an object to you. Before I jump into that, I thought a comment from a wife on the same thread was incredibly helpful: These comments show the need to differentiate between objectification and attraction. "What is the difference between lusting after my wife and desiring her sexually or being turned on by her? Are all three the same? If I wasn’t turned on by her body, why would we have sex? What would cause me to become aroused and pursue sex with her?" A more helpful question was posed by another commenter: While not very helpful for interactive dialogue, it shows the anger and confusion some husbands feel about this subject. And nobody on this blog or any other is going to make me feel one speck of guilt about it." "As far as I am concerned, I plan on objectifying my wife until death do us part. In the comment section, some of what I wrote was met with confusion, which I hope to help clear up here. It breaks my heart how the Christian subculture has blindly accepted this definition when God has something so much deeper and truer for us. Satan’s definition of sex is that it’s all about body parts and it’s all about consuming another person to satisfy myself. I recently wrote a Covenant Eyes article “What Christian Culture Has Gotten Wrong About Sexual Purity.” In it, I wrote: ![]()
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