Thank you so much for replying with such a detailed comment. To answer your question, during this that time period of the early renaissance, men were attracted to women who were shy, timid, and very pale; especially virgins. Venus is depicted in this picture as a beautiful virgin being born, that represented the all time perfect woman during this time period. Botticelli wanted to paint her with such innocence and beauty during her birth to capture the moment an almost perfect woman is being "born". He captured the true essence of how a woman is suppose to be like.