Anatole France

Anatole France said it!

He had a pet and loved it dearly?

It would have been Abraham if he had recognized what God meant when he said his name is "I am."

Otherwise, Buddhism does not have a patriarch. Your buddha nature is exactly the same as everyone else's buddha nature. Only the egoic, unawakened mind finds a construct like patriarchy useful. It has no relevance or meaning whatsoever to the awakened consciousness.

They may simply have been born with a low sex-drive, as others are born with poor eyesight or hearing.

More likely, it's environmental. Bad parental example. Sexual molestation in childhood. Or in the case of deeply-religious girls, they may remain hung-up on the idea of sex as a mortal sin. Or with highly-academic girls, their intellectual development may have overshadowed their emotional development, so they remained unawakened until a man (hopefully) ignites them.