Maybe she was like the girl in "Good Country People"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2053594&forum_id=2#21588900)

That really DOES sound like the girl in Good Country People

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2053594&forum_id=2#21588928)

...readers (like me) who hope to find revelations or even well-founded gossip about something resembling a sex life will be disappointed. Some thought O’Connor was indifferent to the subject—except as sin, perhaps, in the abstract—and certainly it was in her interest to cultivate indifference; but once, when a friend remarked that she would have liked to borrow some of O’Connor’s creativity, the latter replied, “I’d exchange it for your ability to attract men.”

Her one physical encounter with the opposite sex, it seems, was an awkward kiss from a textbook salesman named Erik Langkjaer, who found himself kissing teeth instead of lips: “So I had a feeling of kissing a skeleton,” he recalled, “and in that sense it was a shocking experience.” Doubtless this was uncertainty rather than reluctance on O’Connor’s part, given that she subsequently indulged in a bit of oblique, peacock-related wooing of the young man: “Did I tell you that I call my baby peachicken Brother in public and Erik in private?” At length, alas, Langkjaer informed her of his engagement to another woman, and O’Connor consoled herself by writing one of her best stories, “Good Country People,” about a raffish Bible salesman who seduces an ungainly young woman so he can abscond with her wooden leg.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2053594&forum_id=2#21588953)

1. Borges died a virgin. 2. didn't Kafka die an unmarried virgin living with his parents? 3. T.S. Eliot was a virgin until 30, and weird. 4. Nietzsche 5. Lewis Carroll 6. Henry James 7. Kierkegaard 8. Keats 9. Hans Christian Andersen -- all virgins.

http://www.thelmagazine.com/TheMeasure/archives/2010/10/26/great-artists-who-died-virgins-according-to-the-new-yorker

also seems like a high incidence of perversion.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2053594&forum_id=2#21589095)

However, yes, I think geniuses and especially writers have a tendency to sublimate the erotic urge and channel it into something else.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2053594&forum_id=2#21589177)

lol and people say that the people who would have been writing great books in bygone eras aren't wasting their life posting on XO these days

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2053594&forum_id=2#23200804)

not surprising.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2053594&forum_id=2#23200769)