The essential eros, the erotic emotion does not rely upon sexual behaviour or sexual thoughts. Yet, someone on the renunciate path is not free from these thoughts but tends to contemplate on them to reach their subtle expression.
Intense awe instead is an emotion that can contain the creative sexual divine consciousness and allow it to flow into transcendence, to be free to go beyond or transcend orgasm.
Paul in his Corinth letters gives instructions about the behaviour of the Christian community in which he states how women need to cover their heads as if not to invite these mysterious beings, that is supernatural beings, or angels into consciousness.
Taking the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary, which in my master’s thesis I explored it as being her menarche, where the angel Gabriel announced she would have a divine birth. To me this indicates this as her time of being processed by a deity, hence the angel, and at the time of her menarche, which is a liminal space, ideal for such occurrences.
Lysistrata, the main character, and the wise woman comes up with a scheme that the women of Greece should give up sex, known as the sex strike, with their husbands, in an attempt to force them to make a peace treaty to end the Peloponnesian War.
This shows men’s perception of women’s rituals and how they wanted to tame the wildness of women, a very necessary expression for women’s spiritual journey to salvation.
References:
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/7700/7700-h/7700-h.htm
https://digitalshowcase.lynchburg.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1099&context=agora
Ep.10: The Sexual Energy as Transcendent (Part Two): Understanding the renunciate path through Aristophanes Lysistrata