Lifelong virgins:

• Hans Christian Andersen, author
• J.M. Barrie, creator of Peter Pan
• Lewis Carroll, author and logician
• Emily Dickinson, poet
• Immanuel Kant
• Søren Kierkegaard
• Nikola Tesla, inventor
• Ed Gein, serial killer

Mark Twain kept his virginity until age 34; Goethe until 39. Voltaire wrote, “It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.”