'Seven hours includes movie and dinner!': Sting clarifies THOSE infamous comments about tantric sex with Trudie Styler - twenty-four years on
In 1990 he made a throw-away comment about seven-hour tantric sex sessions.
And, nearly twenty-five years on, singer/songwriter Sting is still being asked about it by journalists across the globe.
The chart topper, who is married to Trudie Styler, was once again forced to clarify his infamous statement during an interview for Bravo series Inside The Actor's Studio, this week.
Clarifying: 'If we had seven hours, I would demonstrate,' Sting responded, to laughs and cheers.
The show's host, James Lipton, asked him to explain what he meant before a live studio audience.
'If we had seven hours, I would demonstrate,' Sting responded, to laughs and cheers. 'Maybe not. But there is some truth to it.
'The idea of tantric sex is a spiritual act. I don't know any purer and better way of expressing a love for another individual than sharing that wonderful, I call it, 'sacrament.' I would stand by it. Not seven hours, but the idea."
He then quipped, 'Seven hours includes movie and dinner,' generating more laughs.
Life-long partners: The couple have always been close and enjoyed a strong relationship
Although primarily a musician, Sting appeared on the show to promote his first Broadway musical The Last Ship.
He wrote the music for the show, which tells a story about the demise of the shipbuilding industry in 1980s Newcastle.
'It’s very exciting and very frightening at the same time,' he added. ‘How come it’s terrifying? It just is all of your dreams are up there to be smashed or realized. Who knows?’
Good show: Sting and his wife Trudie Styler pictured in New York, last month
Several years ago, in 2011, Trudie Styler said her husband’s original claim about their love life was a drunken boast.
But while she poured scorn on the idea they were ‘doing it all day long’, she pointedly stopped short of saying he had lied about the yoga-related practice.
Miss Styler, 57, said: ‘Sting said that 21 years ago. He has just turned 60, and I imagine [the tantric story] will carry on going until he drops.
‘Do you know who I blame for that? Bob Geldof. Him and Sting had gone to do an interview with a rock journalist, and the interview turned into a drinking session.
‘At one point, the journalist asked how long they could go for, and Geldof said he was a three-minute man, but, as Sting did yoga, he could probably go for hours. And Sting said “Well, haven’t you heard of tantric sex?”
‘So Sting explained that it is all about being intimate, about caring for your partner, really engaging in intimacy before you, you know… have sex. And that’s the premise of tantra, really. It’s simply engagement with your partner.’
Most watched News videos
- Furious Putin is told Ukrainian soldiers have crossed Russian border
- Bodies of dead Russian soldiers on destroyed military column
- Radio station and shopping mall shake during Japan earthquake
- Moment CTSFO police use flashbangs to raid in West Kensington
- Thousands gather for counter-protest against far-right in Belfast
- Moment police arrest Britain's oldest rioter William Morgan
- Moment golden retriever crushes three-year-old girl to death
- 'Drunk' rioter lobs metal sheeting at cops in Hartlepool
- Huge container ship erupts into fireball while docked in China port
- Moment police arrest Facebook user for inciting violence in a first
- Woman caught poisoning opponent's chess board before tournament
- Rioters torch Spellow library in Liverpool destroying hundred of books