There is always more to these things than meets the eye.  In my own understanding of the symbols as opposed to literal readings, it is Christianity that carried the cross of God's need to be saved.  Despite the excesses of their "temporal" beliefs, Christians have carried forward fully intact the gift of unconditional salvation despite every attempt by their own religions to limit it.  Perhaps it is the love of his ownly begotten son that will save God the angry father after all.  Does Luke Skywalker have what it takes to save Darth Vader ?  Stay tuned :)

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One of the most cherished stories of the Bible, that Adam and Eve in the Garden with the apple and the snake story is essentially a metaphor of human (hetero) sexuality, and the God given shame and blame associated with it, and Christianity's been trying to exorcise the male snake ever since.

Now that explains the slang "jerk off" so here is something to explain the slang "horny".  

In a mythology older than the Bible, Enkidu was taken away from Gilgamesh for killing the bull of heaven (another symbol of sexuality like the snake).   We symbolically play out this story (and the related Minotaur story) in bullfighting arenas.

But "The Epic of Gilgamesh" the oldest of all human epics is not so much about sexuality as it is loss and emptiness (the essential nature of the Grail wound).  Gilgamesh having lost his partner searches into death to bring him back.   Kind of gives new meaning to the "reunion of the seperated duad".  

Shame is not inherently a part of human sexuality but bound up in the play of suffering in the world.

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Washington whose central phallic monument (readily identifiable to most Hindu's) may be considered the father of our country, but it is clear to me that Jefferson (surrounded by the water of life in a softer rounded more feminine building) speaking so eloquently of freedom was the carrier of it's very soul.

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"I am larger, better than I thought,
I did not know I held so much goodness.

All seems beautiful to me,
I can repeat over to men and woman,
YOU have done such good to me

I would do the same to you,

- Walt Whitman
Song of the OPEN Road

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