She says it is because of the royal tradition, a cultural memory of enormously powerful women who are also evidently sexual creatures.
Perhaps it is lost to us when we become sexual creatures, and no magic can bring it back.
But the human being, of any age, is a sexual creature.
In fact we are not sexual creatures, or at least not in the ordinary sense.
Not only were women romanticized, but also history disregards them as war heroes and more seemingly sexual creatures.
In spite of what some male physicians and social arbiters claimed, she had always believed that women were sexual creatures.
"It's like you're not in the room, not as a sexual creature."
From the Orthodox churches point of view, humans are not sexual creatures in terms of their essential identity.
More punch because as it happens she's looking at him as a sexual creature, a desire.
His great revelation - though it seems obvious now - was that women are sexual creatures every bit as much as men.