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Tom Ford: All men should get penetrated
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Years ago, he gave wild interviews. He said he wanted to live in an adobe in the desert with his dog and make sculpture; he suggested, in this very magazine in 2004, that all men should be sexually penetrated, and then he maybe (definitely) propositioned his interviewer. But it’s not years ago. It’s now, and now he’s more interested in having a good talk than a wild time.
He sighs. This has been quite a talk. I tell him it had a lot to live up to, considering his last GQ interview—the one during which he propositioned the (heterosexual male) writer. I had no such expectations, but, well, does he stand by what he said? That every man should be penetrated? He sighs again. He doesn’t want to get into all of that. “I was just taking the piss out of him,” he says, adding that he read the article through his fingers when it came out, the whole time wondering, “Oh God, what was I thinking?” He was drunk, he says. He didn’t mean it, he says. Okay, he did mean it, he says, but he shouldn’t have said it.
But Tom Ford is still in there, so he can’t stop himself. So he says this next thing, and it doesn’t come off as lascivious, the way it might have years ago, but thoughtful and aware: Yes, he says, all men should be penetrated at some point. And not as in emotions. He means: All men should be ****ed. “I think it would help them understand women,” he argues. “It’s such a vulnerable position to be in, and it’s such a passive position to be in. And there’s such an invasion, in a way, that even if it’s consensual, it’s just very personal. And I think there’s a psyche that happens because of it that makes you understand and appreciate what women go through their whole life, because it’s not just sexual, it’s a complete setup of the way the world works, that one sex has the ability to literally—and is expected to and is wanted to—but also there’s an invasion. And I think that that’s something most men do not understand at all.”
But he doesn’t like that we’re talking about this. He asks if I’m going to include it in my article, and when I say yes, of course, he closes his eyes. He has a son now. He doesn’t want him reading this kind of stuff from his father. But he also understands, as though he wishes he hadn’t said it but doesn’t exactly regret it, because in the end, Tom Ford wants your experience of Tom Ford to be authentically Tom Ford.
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