A funny story about chastity (as if there were any other kind)

Check one off the bucket list: Last night I had the chance to ask a sex columnist what she thought of vows of life-long chastity. "And the answer I'm looking for sounds less like 'If that's what makes them happy then they should go for it,' and more like 'No, Emily Dickinson would totally have written better poetry if she'd been getting some.'"

She responded that Emily Dickinson would have written different poetry had she been sexually active, but not necessarily worse. "Maybe she would have written erotic poetry."

That's the punchline of the story, of course; as we know from the last chapter of Sexual Personae, Emily Dickinson did.

UPDATE: Can't believe I forgot this ED quote on chastity:

Don't you know you are happiest while I withhold and not confer--don't you know that "No" is the wildest word we consign to Language?