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Irrelevant. Song of Solomon doesn't say anything even remotely as insane as into wearing God's foreskin is a wedding ring, cutting out your heart to swap it with God's heart, carving God's name into your breasts, getting a literal physical sexual orgasm from God, or bloodletting after encountering God (which was a Frankish folk-romantic practise to do after you have had sex with your lover).

The Church Fathers are unanimous that passionate, material sex is a condescension to our fallen, animal state, and that Adam & Eve did not have this passion or faculty. All first-millenium reports of spiritual ecstasy, like St. Paul had, were sober and spiritual in nature. Only after the schism, and only in the west, did purely sensual elements like God-induced orgasm come into play, or even stigmata, which was completely unheard of in the 1st millenium.

If the first millenium Saints had pure, spiritual joy from God as a direct result of the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, why on earth would God bestow a lower form of animalistic pleasure, like an orgasm to his Saints, only after a great schism, and only to female Saints? It makes no sense at all.