In the legends the Virgin is warned to NEVER try to touch or touch a unicorn.
Never touch his sacred golden horn or his male member.
Never DESIRE to touch the unicorn.If she desires to touch him....this indicates a desire for that which would remove her innocence.
And if she touches him with that desire..
She will awaken within him his beast.
He will give her exactly what she desires but no longer pure himself his horn will shrivel, and he will die.(An analogy for a male and male desire and mortality}
Goes back to being another anlalogy of Adam and Eve and serpent and loss of innocence and mortality as a curse...
but it was not a curse....
instead it was simply becoming more than the animals and "understanding" by intellect..instead of instinct.. the reality of the physical aspects of living and mortality.
Innocence of the not knowing of, or understanding of birth/life/death was all that was lost.
Nothing more than that.
But now with that knowlege...innocence is lost.
Can no longer just live in an illusion of delusion that nothing ever changes...that there is no death or suffering.
Without that loss of innocence..and the gaining of knowlege...
we would still be animals and nothing more.