We’ve all heard it — Sting and his wife, Trudie Styler, like to have tantric sex for hours on end. Now Sting’s daughter, Coco, has come out to say it was all a joke and rumor that isn’t true.
That’s all well and good, but why in the hell did we have to hear this from his 18-year-old daughter? Kind of awkward isn’t it? Personally, I don’t know anything about my parents’ sex life and prefer to think they’ve never done it and I was hatched.
This article appears in Aug 18-25, 2009.
Actually Sting himself was later quoted as saying “Eight hours? I said that? I must have been including dinner and a movie!” And I heard his wife tell Oprah, “Well, sometimes he draws a bath for me …and gives me a massage…”
Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater. Tantra, an ancient spiritual training, does indeed offer couples a different way of understanding intimate connection. And it doesn’t always have to take hours.