[[WMG:It's not that Turandot DoesNotLikeMen, it's that she's terrified of sex]]
And why might this be? She's the Emperor's only child, with no mother in evidence - or even mentioned. What if, as a little girl, she saw her mother die in childbirth? Lo-u-Ling's tragedy was "thousands of years ago" even by Turandot's reckoning, yet she seems to attach some very real and present emotional issues to it. Her aria explains that she is very aware of ''being'' Lo-u-Ling reincarnated. If she really is, that's where she got the idea that [[SexSignalsDeath Sex = Death]], and by the third act she's full-on SexIsEvilAndIAmHorny.

[[WMG: By killing herself, Liu transported her own soul into Turandot's body]]
Liu could be seen as a full-blown Christ figure who dies to make the happy ending possible. It seems that her spirit of love does indeed resurrect... in Turandot herself. Only when she dies does Turandot [[DefrostingIceQueen defrost]]. The interpretation that Liu lives on in Turandot in more than a metaphorical sense also makes the HappyEnding less jarring, because the best character in the opera didn't die, she switched bodies, and managed to end up with the man she loved.