An interesting take, and I think, largely, on target.

I can't, however, agree with the pretty=harmless. In fact, quite the opposite, especially for this former Catholic who has dabbled with evangelical Christianity.

From a young age, I was taught that the prettier the woman, the more dangerous. From the stories of Sara's beauty luring kings and pharohs, to tales of Samson and Delilah, David--who was led astray by the beauty of Bathsheba--to his son Solomon who was led to worship other gods by some of this numerous wives... and who wrote the book of Proverbs explicitly warning against the wiles of the feminine, to the story of Jezebel and Ahab, it's all over the Old Testament. (and, unfortunately, informs much of the New Testament)

And it's not just Christianity. The Q'uran says that God divided desire into ten parts, one part he gave to man and nine parts to women: or, put another way, women are too powerful not to be put into a burqa. Such response, of course, is just the weakness of men, not an indictment of women. But the point is that pretty is, at least, not seen as harmless to many men.