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• Viktoria Semenenko from UkraineA very important notice in reality "I want your sex" trilogy was inspired by dating with exactly Brooke Shields in 1985. So the fact is George was even offended in Chicago hotel by her guard as mother too who watched too much carefully after her virginity. Despite continued to see her for some more dates in New York but finally split saying he needed to occupy more of his career.
  Brooke being still rather naive 19 years virgin as sheltered girl believed he was a very gentle person who respected her as she wrote in her memoire.
  So the split happened at Gracy Jones party after Boy George was mocking on a couple about the rumor. Means George put Brooke into a limo to say good-bye despite there was a moment she believed like "everything" could ever really happen in the car.
• Viktoria Semenenko from UkraineHad to notice an important thing that at the time there were two versions of video for this song (as for "One More Try" and "Father Figure" too). And one of the versions I call a provocative one started with walking girl's back. So an Australian journalist was even asking him in 1988 if his own bottom was seen there and George answered that it depends which version you'd watched.
• Michelle from UsaWhen this song came out I was 16. I remember that they couldn't play it on the radio until after 10 pm. This was the first song that changed my teenage mind that sex wasn't a "dirty" topic.
• Ma from FloridaMichael said to Paula Yates he was monogamous at the time, and on the Ross show he was scared of getting STDs. He emphasized monogamy aspect. I don't think it was because he leaned toward men, as he had a gf, it was just an ethical thing. He doesn't always come off as typical gay anyway. Most gays do NOT embrace monogamy and gay lobby actually encourages promiscuity.
• Xyzzy from Redwood Empire, CaCorrecting myself... VH/1's Pop-Up Video doesn't mention the "explore __" segment, but does say that George Michael wrote the song in response to people telling kids to not have sex because of the threat of AIDS, as he wanted to send the message that promiscuity was the threat, not sex itself.
• Xyzzy from Redwood Empire, CaThe article has a few inaccuracies that I guess were written by a younger person... AIDS was "beginning" to spread in 1981 (not 1987) and most people knew that it was being transmitted by sex, needle sharing, and blood transfusions in heteros & gays by the mid-80s. George Michael being gay would've had nothing to do with the decision to write "explore monogamy" as nobody could've imagined back then that a gay person could ever be open about their orientation. (Also, I've read that he originally wrote "explore pleasure" but MTV pressured him to change it to "explore monogamy" -- I think that VH1's "Pop-Up Video" mentions it in their version of IWYS.)
• Mare Soir from Oceanside, CaThere are three parts to this song. I think this song is about three different people and their respective friendship/fling/relationship. It's got to be one of the most sensual songs ever. Wow. George Michael is the sexiest and most intelligent artist out there. He had it going on then and he still does. He personifies love.
• Manda from Oc, CaIn the LA Times June 14, 2008 photo montage about his notable songs that went along with the article about George's tour 'TwentyFive Live," he remarked on "I Want Your Sex": "I hate that song. I think it sounds like bad Prince. I was so obsessed with Prince at the time, with the sparsity of those records."
• Joshua from La Crosse, WiDuring the song's U.S. chart run, the producers of Casey Kasem's American Top 40 radio show subtly rearranged the show's usual structure to accommodate radio stations that refused to play the song, while causing minimal disruption to the rest of the show. (Here's a link to the cue sheet for the first AT40 episode where this song appeared, including an attached memo to radio station program directors describing how to skip over the song.)

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