Some of it surely stems from the cult of the gentleman, which has done so much to pussify Western men. Some guys just have puffed-up, purified images of themselves.

This to me is much more correct on who should be genuflecting and to whom

The proper place for a woman is on her knees before her lord. i.e., the man.

It's actually quite difficult, outside of sex, to find depictions of woman's proper submission to man.