It has been said of a number of famous people that they never experienced sexual intercourse.
It is hard to
establish such claims as the truth. It was said that Immanual Kant, the German philosopher,
died a virgin at the
age of eighty. And the allegation was made that Sir Isaac Newton never experienced sexual
intercourse.
"Although mathematical genius can hardly be attributed to this singular neglect on Sir Isaac's
part, it might
certainly explain why he suffered so severely from insomnia." (B. J. Hurwood, "The
Golden Age of Erotica.")