"Sixteen verses of inspired Scripture". Actually, several of the preceding verses aren't addressing hair at all, and the verse I quoted is also inspired Scripture. You're playing verses against each other. Paul doesn't contrast "natural women" with "spiritual women" at all.
While hair should not be a distraction, neither should anything else, by intention. Hair is no more a distraction than clothing, shoes, body shape, facial features, voice, or any of a hundred other external aspects of a person that another person may find attractive. Unless a person is actively seeking to get attention, the problem is with the observer, not the observed. Covering the hair isn't going to fix the problem.
While hair should not be a distraction, neither should anything else, by intention. Hair is no more a distraction than clothing, shoes, body shape, facial features, voice, or any of a hundred other external aspects of a person that another person may find attractive. Unless a person is actively seeking to get attention, the problem is with the observer, not the observed. Covering the hair isn't going to fix the problem.
"observers"-WATCHERS!
So.....if they don't keep their hair covered the Watchers will swoop down on them and DEFILE them just like they did in Gen.6:4....you don't want your wife defiled by the fallen ones do ya ????