She may have escaped childhood unscathed of soul murder by parents intent on defining their child through which to live vicariously, and in this case has by being born fully pubescent and innocent instantly from the sea's transformation of the generative principle of the testes sacrificed to the sea. Most of us have to spend years of therapy undoing the damage of our birth parents, culture, religion, government, lineage, etc. Our divine goddess Venus is washed ashore ocean fresh pure and unbruised by childhood due to her miraculous divine creation birth. Thus her myth speaks to the birth of the soul, the spiritually conscious living eternal soul consciousness, that which exists eternally and is pure relative to the earthly experience. It always exists, so what is really born is our consciousness of this aspect of self out of the innocence of ignorance of that Self.
Spiritual awakening is truly the beginning of adulthood.
Some arrive out of mothers' womb with total knowing. Others discover it only late in life or not this time around on the reincarnation wheel. The Arousal of Venus Our Penthouse Pet on the left mirrors the pose of Venus in the clamshell in Botticelli's Birth of Venus . The Penthouse Pet fully owns her adult sexual power, while The Birth of Venus shows us a virginal innocent ignorant of adulthood. So, our visual comparison and contrast context immediately shows us the dichotomies which need holistic healing in our collective human consciousness about sexuality if we fail to see the perfect divinity in both versions.