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Your image is the right idea. Mary is Catholicism’s version of a fertility goddess (or sex goddess if you prefer). No different than any other religion, Catholicism needed their feminine, sensual deity. However, Catholicism subverted the sex goddess archetype. Rather than centering Mary’s identity on her sexuality, they centered it on her lack of sexuality. Mary’s perpetual virginity (even after the birth of Jesus) is very important in Catholicism. They cannot give you a good reason why it matters nor what evidence they have that Mary (a married woman) died a virgin, but they get very upset if you challenge the premise. But the effect is still the same, her entire character concept still revolves around sexual themes. That theme in this case is just virginity, but it is still on topic for sex deities. Mary isn’t venerated primarily for her intelligence or courage, but her chastity.
The idea that Mary engaging in sex (with her lawfully wedded husband) would be “defiling” to her character is an interesting idea. It almost implies that sex itself, even in proper context, is a perversion, which is a hilarious idea, but also on brand for the Abrahamic faiths.
All of this is pretty funny since it’s just the result of nature devising the most efficient way for a sperm (which can’t survive outside the body) to meet an egg (also can’t survive outside the body). Nature picked the simplest method imaginable, a round peg and a round hole. Nature made it pleasurable to incentivize reproduction, lest mammals not even bother to do it, and accidentally created the most complex and ironic mental machinations in humans.
I wonder if seas slugs consider female sea slugs to be dirty, defiled whores when they shoot their egg piles into the murky cloud of slug sperm that’s floating in the water.
