Ickapoo seeks love. But love is more than sex.
Sex is used in Miss Julie and Bernada Alba as a great social equalizer. By having a sexual relationship with women of superior status, the male transgressors bring themselves to conquer the females of high society, bringing them disgrace and ruin. Sex is thus the means to leverage social hierarchies and social inequalities. Women with inappropriate behaviour in the context of social norms bring about their own downfall as they have transgressed the proper role of women in society.