As an icon of Gen Z, 19-year-old Billie Eilish has given voice to several issues affecting her generation.
, Eilish has addressed these topics both in her music and in the press, and in a recent interview with Howard Stern, Eilish spoke on the topic of pornography and how it’s negatively impacted her self-perception and sex life., Eilish said she started watching porn at 11, and that being exposed to violent sexual imagery at such a young age has made it hard for her to have a healthy sex life now as an adult.
“As a woman, I think porn is a disgrace, and I used to watch a lot of porn, to be honest,” Eilish told Stern,. “I started watching porn when I was like 11. I didn’t understand why it was a bad thing. I thought that’s how you learned how to have sex. […] I used to be the person that would talk about porn all the time. I’d be like, ‘Oh, it’s so stupid that anybody would think that porn is bad or f*cked up,’ you know, ‘I think it’s so cool and it’s great and it’s empowering.
Talking to Stern, Eilish went on to say she thinks watching too much porn at a young age also gave her nightmares and sleep paralysis, which were both major themes on her debut album,“I think that I had sleep paralysis and these night terrors slash nightmares because of it,” she said. “I think that’s how it started because I would just watch abusive BDSM and that’s what I thought was attractive. It got to a point where I couldn’t watch anything else unless it was violent.
During the interview, Eilish also revealed that she contracted COVID in August and was sick for two months with lingering side effects, saying she thought she would have died had she not been vaccinated. “I want it to be clear that it isof the vaccine that I’m fine,” she said. “I think if I weren’t vaccinated, I would have, like, died, because it was bad. When I say it was bad, I more just mean that it felt horrible. But really, in the scheme of COVID, it was not bad.
“That’s not my world, so I don’t know what the f*ck I’m doing,” she explained. “I feel like I am terrible, like I suck.” For what it’s worth, Eilish’s performance seems to have been universally praised. In addition to performing “Male Fantasy” and “Happier Than Ever,” Eilish also delivered an opening monologue in a “Mrs. Claus goes to the club”
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