" McCandless's apparent sexual innocence, however, is a corollary of a personality type that our culture purports to admire, at least in the case of its more famous adherents. His ambivalence toward sex echoes that of celebrated others who embraced wilderness with single-minded passion-Thoreau"
-Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer, page 66
To Krakauer, McCandless was a very clean, and innocent guy. The fact that McCandless was never sexually active just explains it all. He was actually kind of planning on getting married,and having children. But he was so into nature, and how amazing it is to be outside, going through adventures, and just being the nature guy, that he was not quite interested in women, and sexuality, or at least in the book, any of those are mentioned by him.
ReplyDeleteKrakauer also sort of admire the fact that McCandless is able to stay so clean, without any of the negative thoughts in his mind, but the clean nature that he loves.