Lust & Sex through the Bible

Deut 21:22 “If a man is found lying with the wife of another man, both of them shall die, the man who lay with the woman, and the woman. So you shall purge the evil from Israel.
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Hosea 1:2 When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea, “Go, take to yourself a wife of whoredom and have children of whoredom, for the land commits great whoredom by forsaking the Lord.” 3 So he went and took Gomer, the daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son.
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Matt 5:27 “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ 28 But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
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Matt 22:30 For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.
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Romans 3:23-24 "all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus"
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1 Corinthians 6:12 “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be enslaved by anything.
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The evolution of human sexuality begins with the intended unity between man and woman, is corrupted through sin and selfishness and leads to our present condition. How are things supposed to be? Why is the heart unfaithful? What does sex have to do with it? While some will argue that sex is for procreation, or simple pleasure or merely icing on the cake of marital friendship, it certainly seems that sex was created as a unique and good part of the human story. Like gravity, some push-pull force exists between people which on one level ensures the population of the earth, and on another level, ensures irrational conflict in society. "All's fair in love and war" as they say. While few people might admit it, a heavenly kingdom without sex might be a very good thing. This is not to say that the role of sex on earth is unholy, or even the opposite, that it is purely a spiritual act. But to be free of the temptation to unfaithfulness - that would be a wonderful freedom. Parallel to this freedom is that freedom from temptation to idolatry - which is unfaithfulness to God. In history these two sins have been tragically "married" together because man often mixes sex with his idolatry in one way or other. Modern (and perhaps historical) idolatry is often the worship of the self. Sex then becomes self-centered and soul devouring. God's love rips us away from our self-focus and brings us back into allignment with the intended order. Within the marital relationship, this manifests with unselfish and joyful sexuality, at once organic and Good, symbolic and true.