“There is no art in turning a goddess into a witch, a virgin into a whore, but the opposite operation, to give dignity to what has been scorned, to make the degraded desireable, that calls for art or for character.”
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
For the best mythic example of this I know, look at the story of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle.
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"Despite the counsels of her betters, she will have Gawain, and the entire court, led by Arthur and perhaps including Gawain, fears she is a sexual predator (lines 722 ff.)
Reminds me of my first wife!
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