Trudie Styler’s tantric trials
Trudie Styler has an array of accomplishments, yet the one thing people remember the most is her husband Sting's famous remark about tantric sex.
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Trudie Styler has packed a lot into her 58 years, said Bryony Gordon in the London Telegraph. Raised in public housing in central England, she is now an actress, a producer, a yoga expert, and the wife of multimillionaire rock star Sting. Yet there’s only one thing most people know about her. “Are you asking about that old tantric thing?” she says mischievously.
Rumors began circulating about Styler and Sting’s epic sex sessions in 1990, she says, after her husband gave a drunken interview alongside Irish rocker Bob Geldof. “At one point, the journalist asked how long they could go for [in bed]. 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?’ Geldof replies, ‘No, I haven’t!’”
Styler says her husband explained that the practice involved “caring for your partner, really engaging in intimacy before you, you know, have sex.” But that detail never made it into the final story. She now wishes Sting had kept his mouth shut. “He was completely rat-arsed. At the time I thought it was very amusing, but then it sort of became a cause célèbre. The tantric hours got extended and, suddenly, I was doing it all day long. Well, if only!”
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