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Sex & The Single Girl

With a date at the Olympia Theatre looming in December, and a much anticipated album on the way in the new year, these are crucial times for Sinéad O’Connor. In a remarkable interview, she also discusses her search for a man, the lovers she has known, sex, sex – and more sex. Plus: Ireland of the squinting windows and the Catholic Church...

Olaf Tyaransen, 05 Dec 2011

All joking aside, she has no real regrets about her six-week “sex period”.

“It was a very interesting experience, really,” she muses. “Obviously there was very mixed reactions, like half was, ‘Great’ and half was all, ‘Oh, you shouldn’t talk about this’ and, ‘You shouldn’t say this’ and, ‘You shouldn’t say that’ and

so on.

“And after a while I just began to feel this thing, like, well actually you know, how about I be fuckin’ me now? A bit like, how come it’s not okay to just fuckin’ be ourselves, like? We’re not doing any harm to anyone. So that’s really why I changed the album title. It was out of that whole six week experience of discussing things which are apparently not supposed to be discussed.”

What possessed you to do it in the first place?

“I wanted to find a boyfriend.”

Sinéad’s strategy worked. She actually has a new boyfriend out of all of this. He’s an addiction therapist who works with teenagers, but she doesn’t want to divulge any more than that. Somewhat inevitably, talk turns to sex and relationships. Growing up in the repressive ‘Holy Ireland’ of the ‘80s, she didn’t receive much in the way of sex education at school.

“We only had one sex education lesson ever in my school,” she recalls, with a smile. “I think I was probably about 12 or so, and this nun came into the room. And she sort of walked in almost backwards so we couldn’t see her, this old nun we’d never seen before. And she just walked up to the blackboard and she drew this, like, foot-long, huge, hard cock, with a big set of balls and everything. We just fuckin’ cried laughing – we just fell around the fuckin’ floor laughing. It was such a funny thing to see a nun do. And that was it, she ran out of the room. No more sex education!”

What age were you when you lost your virginity?

“I was 14. I had proper fuckin’ sexual crushes on grown men by the time I was eight, though.”

Are you into older men generally?



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