Tim Gunn Hasn’t Had Sex in Almost 30 Years
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Tim Gunn is making it work without sex. The “Project Runway” fashion guru revealed Tuesday on ABC’s daytime talk show “The Revolution” that he hasn’t been between the sheets with anyone for 29 years. That’s fine with him.
“I haven’t had sex in 29 years,” he said. “Do I feel like less of a person for it? No. Not even remotely.”
Gunn, 58, said that his “very personal” reasons for abstinence have to do with an “intense” and psychologically damaging past relationship. “My partner ended it, saying that, quite frankly, he was impatient with my sexual performance,” he said.
Gunn, who is openly gay, also said that the AIDS epidemic prompted him to reevaluate sex. “I think a lot of people simply retreated because they were concerned about their health. I certainly was,” he said. “And I’m happy to be healthy and alive, quite frankly.”
While Gunn said that he’s “a perfectly happy, fulfilled individual,” he’s happy to engage in sex again, as long as the person is right. ”I have feelings,” he said. “It’s not as though I’m some barren forest. I don’t want to imply to anyone that I have a mandate that says no sex. I don’t. I don’t know what’s around the corner.”
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what’s so shocking about that.
Posted by: jay | January 25, 2012, 1:42 pm 1:42 pm
So what?
Posted by: Robert | January 25, 2012, 1:44 pm 1:44 pm
Gay men also suffer erectile dysfunction./lack of sex drive too? What’s the world coming too?
Posted by: talksay | January 25, 2012, 1:50 pm 1:50 pm
And this is news?
Posted by: carole | January 25, 2012, 2:01 pm 2:01 pm
Who the he** is Tim Gunn and why should I care about his sex life (or lack there of?)
Posted by: Jim | January 25, 2012, 2:18 pm 2:18 pm
Who cares, is this the National Enquirer because this is not news!
Posted by: Seriously | January 25, 2012, 2:22 pm 2:22 pm
Quite frankly this article makes me want to throw up. I’m not repelled by his abstinance but by his homosexuality. There is more than enough peversion in this world without rubbing it in our faces. It is not an alternative lifestyle but another indicator of our descendency.
Posted by: Perplexed | January 25, 2012, 2:25 pm 2:25 pm
OK….so?????
Posted by: tstorm | January 25, 2012, 2:25 pm 2:25 pm
Not even chicken choking?
Posted by: Ben D. | January 25, 2012, 2:59 pm 2:59 pm
MAKE IT WERQ DESIGNERS
Posted by: Racquel | January 25, 2012, 3:27 pm 3:27 pm
Come on ABC, you are just trying to HYPE the show. We don’t give a crap about Tim Gunn’s sexless life! I like the guy, but I couldn’t care less and think you demean your station by posting this kind of non news. This is not one of those gossip rags
Posted by: Retired | January 25, 2012, 3:37 pm 3:37 pm
Why is this news? He wrote this in his book a few years ago.
Posted by: Heidi | January 25, 2012, 5:01 pm 5:01 pm
Hey Tim you are not alone – I can claim the same thing. Sex is a minute part of life.
Posted by: Carolyn | January 25, 2012, 5:03 pm 5:03 pm
Quite frankly this article makes me want to throw up. I’m not repelled by his abstinance but by his homosexuality. There is more than enough peversion in this world without rubbing it in our faces. It is not an alternative lifestyle but another indicator of our descendency.
Posted by: Perplexed | January 25, 2012, 2:25 pm 2:25 pm
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Hypocrisy. Saying the act is a sin, and yet you read an article where a person claims he hasn’t done what you call “the sin” in 29 years and you still feel the need to hate him. This is about one thing. Hating homosexuals. Personally.
Posted by: lexingtonlady | January 25, 2012, 5:06 pm 5:06 pm
Posted by: lexingtonlady | January 25, 2012, 5:06 pm 5:06 pm
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Hypocrisy. Saying the act is a sin, and yet you read an article where a person claims he hasn’t done what you call “the sin” in 29 years and you still feel the need to hate him. This is about one thing. Hating homosexuals. Personally.
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You would be incorrect. Its extremely shallow to equate homosexuality with homosexual acts only. As most have noted, sex is only a part of a lifestyle. To equate it with all, is wrong. In your attempt to display your political correctness, you have made a mockery of homosexuals. One can be repelled by whatever they so choose in America. While I disagree that an ABC “news” post is “rubbing it in one’s face,” the right to free speech is still protected. You equating his general feelings with hate, also superficial. Why on earth do so many people have to be so sensitive? Get over it, some people will disagree with some part of everyone’s life. Heck I do things I don’t like sometimes, why would I expect others to like it 100%?
Posted by: jason | January 25, 2012, 5:50 pm 5:50 pm
trying to be delicate here but wondering if he practices self love. males are always told use it or lose it and that sex is healthy for the prostate since the prostate is involved in the process of ejaculation. hope this comment doesn’t offend anyone but just writing what seems to be beliefs among males.
Posted by: david | January 25, 2012, 6:10 pm 6:10 pm
Yeah sure, just like Bill Clinton did not have sex with that woman…Monica Lewinski.
Posted by: Ken | January 26, 2012, 11:42 am 11:42 am
Bet his right arm is really strong !!!
Posted by: Joe | January 26, 2012, 11:51 am 11:51 am
No more sore butts!!!
Posted by: Dirk Diggler | January 26, 2012, 11:59 am 11:59 am
Jason, you’re right: it IS extremely shallow, as well as ignorant, to reduce someone’s orientation to their sex life. However, it is a tactic employed every day by those who wish to demonize gay people as participants in a “deviant and disgusting lifestyle.” At the same time, many claim that they don’t disapprove of people *being* gay–only of “acting on it,” because “acting on it” is the “sin.”
“Perplexed” gave the lie to this claim by expressing their repulsion at Mr. Gunn’s very existence as a man who loves other men–even through decades of celibacy. And sure, you have the right to say that another human being makes you “want to throw up.” But no one has any “right” to say whatever they want without criticism or disagreement.
Rock your first amendment rights. Don’t expect others to sit by silently when you spout off in public.
Posted by: Summer | January 26, 2012, 7:00 pm 7:00 pm
There is people who don’t care about sex for various reasons. They will say so what. There is people who like having sex. They will say oh damned. That sucks.
Posted by: moria | January 26, 2012, 7:01 pm 7:01 pm
Quite frankly this article makes me want to throw up. I’m not repelled by his abstinance but by his homosexuality. There is more than enough peversion in this world without rubbing it in our faces. It is not an alternative lifestyle but another indicator of our descendency.
Posted by: Perplexed | January 25, 2012, 2:25 pm 2:25 pm
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“Perplexed” is perplexed because s/he fell asleep in 1955 and woke up in 2012. I’d be as well, but I still wouldn’t be a hateful bigot.
Posted by: Oedi | January 26, 2012, 8:21 pm 8:21 pm
Atta boy, Tim! You look wonderfully youthful for keeping yourself clean. I haven’t had sex for 15 years, myself, because of all the diseases one can get, which is not worth losing my health over. Sex is way over-rated and a false way to get the love you need.
Posted by: Garden | January 27, 2012, 12:55 pm 12:55 pm
Thanks to someone for finally admitting that you are NOT going to die or be otherwise harmed if you don’t have sex!!! However… you might die if you do have it. You just don’t know where people have “been” these days.
Posted by: Atoz | January 27, 2012, 9:01 pm 9:01 pm
Pray tell WHY this is considered NEWS? Many people have gone “sexless” for centuries and they never made the news…so why should he. And why should this be considered NEWS anyway…sheesh! Show some intelligence when choosing stories to print please. I can go get great doses of ignorance any day, any where…. don’t make me get it here too.
Posted by: willowlane07 | January 28, 2012, 10:33 am 10:33 am
Sorry Moria. CORRECTION: The post I commented about defending Perplexed was made BY OTIS…oops I meant OEDI. LOL.
Posted by: willowlane07 | January 28, 2012, 10:47 am 10:47 am
I must agree that this isn’t newsworthy. What would be newsworthy is if he were diagnosed with prostate cancer and it was determined that he got it because he hadn’t ejaculated in 30 years, which the article didn’t mention one way or the other…just that he didn’t have sex with a partner in that time.
Posted by: Arf40 | January 30, 2012, 12:04 pm 12:04 pm
Eww, I feel icky all over now. Gee, thanks ABC ‘NEWS’!
Posted by: Pogue Mahone | January 30, 2012, 1:02 pm 1:02 pm
That’s what ya get for talking with your mouth full.
Posted by: Cowcharge | January 30, 2012, 3:18 pm 3:18 pm
As annoying a he is, who’d want to? Gimmie a break.
Posted by: Ms. Williams | February 1, 2012, 4:53 am 4:53 am
I can’t imagine why this should be anyone’s business really. Whether a person is gay or straight, it is up to them to decide if they chose to abstain from sex. With HIV and AIDS still a very real possibility, this guy has made a wise choice. I knew a single woman who was straight and had grown children say she had not been with a man in 29 years. Who cares? To each his or her own.
Posted by: Lynne | February 1, 2012, 10:02 am 10:02 am
Uh, gay sex doesn’t actually qualify as actually having sex… I think he meant to say he hasn’t engaged in sodomy with another man in 29 years.
Posted by: Dickus | February 1, 2012, 11:04 am 11:04 am
“And this is news?”
POSTED BY: CAROLE | JANUARY 25, 2012, 2:01 PM 2:01 PM______________Yes, according to ABC.
Posted by: NoFlyZone2 | February 1, 2012, 1:28 pm 1:28 pm
After reading this article I thought it was a man/woman thing. Only to the end where it says the gentleman is openly gay that my whole body went limb. I immediately kissed my girlfriend just to make sure everything is OK. So, far, I’m good.
Posted by: NoFlyZone2 | February 1, 2012, 1:46 pm 1:46 pm
i understand that some of you may not care about this article, i dont .. but you clicked on it, so obviously something caught your attention. if your not interested..simply carry on and go to another page, thats the joy of internet. also. it wasnt necessarily in the “news” area. its under “entertainment”, “fashion”. so this is exactly the type of things that goes here.
Posted by: chasity | February 1, 2012, 3:30 pm 3:30 pm
Good grief, why do people still CARE if someone is gay or straight? How in the world does a gay man or woman’s sexuality affect you, unless they are having sex with you? Anyway, I’m glad people are starting to realize that sex isn’t the be-all and end-all in life. It seems that so many people are completely obsessed with the act itself, and they care nothing about the emotional side of a relationship. I was separated from my husband due to military deployment for 8 months, so I didn’t have any kind of physical relations during that time. And hey, I survived. I missed him so much more on an emotional level, and it only made the physical stuff that much more special when he returned.
Posted by: Jennifer | February 1, 2012, 4:24 pm 4:24 pm
WoW. This definitely falls under the TMI category. Looks like the ratings for The Revuls…er Revolution are down, so ABC (or more likely Disney) opted for a cross-promotional “event”.
Posted by: Bob | February 2, 2012, 8:55 am 8:55 am
maybe if he’d whiten those yella teeth?
Posted by: steve austin | February 3, 2012, 11:43 am 11:43 am
Basically he hasn’t found anyone good in 30 years.
*MAYBE IT’S YOU*
Posted by: Silas | February 3, 2012, 9:07 pm 9:07 pm
in laymans term,you are a jerkoff
Posted by: noel gaurano | February 4, 2012, 9:44 am 9:44 am
SHOULD THAT BE MAKIN THE NEWS PEOPLE PERSONAL THINGS MAKIN HEADLINES …. THATS REALLY SAD .
Posted by: LASHAWN | February 6, 2012, 11:37 am 11:37 am
I don’t think it’s that uncommon. I have been ceilbate for 12 years. Widowed 18 years ago to the love of my life and then had 2 casual and stupid relationships. I enjoy people, I am very involved but not THAT way. In fact no one would suspect my secret. Intimacy is what I want not just sex. When and if I cross paths with that person who who I can have both emotional and physical intimacy GREAT! Thank you for bringing out of the closet the secret non sex lives of the AARP generation.
Posted by: Andrea | February 7, 2012, 3:02 pm 3:02 pm