Catholic tradition gives us an example of the lives of many saints who have honoured their Lord.
This also teaches us a great deal in the field of the natural order. I take my inspiration from a fine book by the scholars Lucetta Scaraffia and Margerita Pelaja entitled Two in One Flesh.
In it, in a paragraph entitled The sex of the saints, they say: "First of all, a first difference is that between women and men: for women, in general, it is not so much a question of fleeing temptation as of freeing themselves from the family authority, which does not accept the religious choice of their daughter or wife. For men, on the other hand, it is rather the temptations that constitute an obstacle to the spiritual path, even if they are not all equally strong".
This is really an archetype in the stories of holiness, for women it is usually renouncing marriage to give themselves entirely to God, as in Saint Cecilia, for example; for men it is resisting temptations of a sexual kind, as in Saint …More