Sex is metaphysical for men, as it is not for women. Women have no problem to solve by sex. Man is condemned to a perpetual pattern of linearity, focus, aim, directedness. The compartmentalizing of male genitality leads to dissociation of sex and emotion. It is a temenos or ritual precinct, a Greek word I adopt for the discussion of art.
Every woman is a priestess guarding the temenos of daemonic mysteries.
Virginity is categorically different for the sexes. A boy becoming a man quests for experiences. The penis is like eye or hand, an extension of self reaching outward. But a girl is a sealed vessel that must be broken into by force. The female body is the prototype of all sacred spaces from cave shrine to temple and church.