Neil said:
Very nice, but does it hold true? Some people at least with a genuine relish for adventure find that they neither need nor want relationships, since no relationship could ever make the heart beat fast enough. For
those
people, some things really are better than sex. Those that try to juggle both ends often find that excitement and adventure wins out.
Whether or not Avon is one of them is nothing more than a matter of
personal
preference.
I don't think that canon depicts Avon as a person with any particular interest in adventure--he ended up there, more or less by accident, as an unwanted byproduct of his devoted interest in the Federation Banking Cartel's assets. (And he spends Harvest of Kairos chatting with a rock and repairing the lunar module instead of buccaneering.)
I suspect that the majority of fictional characters are interested in both adventure and sex--which tends to make the author's work easier.
-(Y)