I think it has to do with women pre and post birth.

From a post-birth point of view, once a child has developed the point that they can go to school or do equivalent things where the mother is left home or in the dwelling while the child develops, she gets the same lonely feelings that a modern woman gets when her hubby is at work and she feels ignored.

I think women also feel certain power when they know that they can attract men as they develop into being women.

Let's face it, it's much easier for a woman to get a man and a man to get a woman, and knowing that they can attract many men and, if necessary, can control them through sex, adds a lot to the idea of female sexual power

Power of course being key to the Victorian ideals that probably gave birth to the modern idea that women are less sexual because men wanted to control women the same way that England or the West wanted to control the world.