Sting remains to be keen on sharing the hours-long tantric sex sessions he enjoys together with his wife — three many years after making the risqué revelation.
“I don’t mind that in any respect — it’s very healthy,” the previous frontman of The Police and grandfather of seven told The Sydney Morning Herald in an interview published Wednesday. “We didn’t discuss sex ever with my parents.”
“I’m fortunate in lots of, many respects, and having my health at this age is something I don’t take with no consideration,” he continued. “I’ve lost a number of friends that didn’t make it this far, so I appreciate every single day because it comes.”
The “Shape of My Heart” singer, 71, revealed within the early Nineteen Nineties that he and wife Trudie Styler, 69, engaged in seven-hour tantric sex sessions.
The couple has addressed the claim over time, with Sting admitting in 2014: “Seven hours features a movie and dinner.”
“There may be some truth to it in that the concept of tantric sex is that sex is a spiritual act,” the rocker told James Lipton on “Contained in the Actors Studio” as Styler watched from the audience.
“I don’t know any purer and higher way of expressing a love for one more individual than sharing that wonderful, I call it sacrament. I might stand by it. Not seven hours. The concept,” he added.
Sting and Styler married on Aug. 20, 1992, and share 4 children: Brigitte, 39, Jake, 37, Eliot, 32, and Giacomo, 27. Sting also has two children together with his first wife, Frances Tomelty: Joseph, 46, and Fuschia, 40.
In 2011, Styler claimed her husband’s initial statement was a “drunken boast” during an interview with fellow singer Bob Geldof for Q Magazine.
“At one point, the journalist asked how long they may go for, and Geldof said he was a three-minute man, but, as Sting did yoga, he could probably go for hours,” she told The Sun, per NME. “And Sting said, ‘Well, haven’t you heard of tantric sex?’”
“So Sting explained that it’s all about being intimate, about caring on your partner, really engaging in intimacy before you, you understand… have sex. And that’s the premise of tantra, really. It’s simply engagement together with your partner,” Styler explained.
Sting’s “My Songs Tour” returns to the US in April with a Las Vegas stint.
