Apollo is the patron of an inherent trait that any human, male or female can easily summon: that of curiosity about the world, the mind, and the mind of the opposite sex. Curiosity as the core trait of Apollo fits him, because he was also the god of prophecy, healing, plague, music, poetry, and essentially an intellectual variety that reenergizes that original sexual attractor in men, of “mysteriousness”.
Apollo to the ancient Greeks has been described as the god of light and of the sun, truth and to my mind that also implies being a man of education. But not everyone is a college graduate today, and as of just a couple of years ago women have surpassed men in western cultures such as that of the United States, in terms of college graduation.
In other words, curiosity itself is sexy to women, and in empowering a man to pass her tests in this step of sexual attraction, he will need to be relied upon to keep the man alert, awake, aware, and cognizant of his environment. It is many a cad who so driven by his desire for the woman, to bed her, or even “to win,” that he loses sight of the patience, sentience, and composure that it takes to still do the right, courteous, and still sexy thing – the gentlemanly thing – even in the face of overwhelming desire and lust.
Even the dignified Apollo, as symbolic of one component of the primitive animal nature in men, can still be driven by desire. A passion and desire for knowledge.