Billie Eilish opens up about sex, masturbation, and her fear of whales

In case you missed it (most likely not), Billie Eilish was not too long ago interviewed for a canopy story in Rolling Stone. In it, she talked about… rather a lot, together with her sexuality, utilizing intercourse to decompress, the advantages of masturbation, and her concern of whales. This text was going to be all concerning the whales, however apparently intercourse sells, not huge marine mammals. Who knew!

The quilt shoot comes amid Eilish’s ongoing rollout for her 2024 album Hit Me Onerous and Comfortable, approaching Might 17. The report itself guarantees some fairly NSFW material, with songs like “Lunch” evaluating intercourse to “devouring a meal”. “I principally discuss intercourse any time I presumably can. That’s actually my favorite matter,” the singer reveals within the interview, including that different individuals usually get “weirded out” by girls who’re very comfy in – and communicative about – their sexuality. “I believe it’s such a frowned-upon factor to speak about, and I believe that ought to change.”

She additionally touches on one other taboo matter, particularly for girls: masturbation. “TMI, however self-pleasure is a gigantic, huge a part of my life, and an enormous, large assist for me,” she tells Rolling Stone. “Folks must be jerking it, man. I can’t stress it sufficient, as anyone with excessive physique points and dysmorphia that I’ve had my whole life.”

Going a step additional, Eilish provides that she likes to masturbate in entrance of a mirror. “Partly as a result of it’s sizzling,” she says, “however it additionally makes me have such a uncooked, deep connection to myself and my physique, and have a love for my physique that I’ve probably not ever had.”

With regards to her sexuality, in the meantime, she says that writing “Lunch” performed an element in her changing into who she is at present. “I wrote a few of it earlier than even doing something with a woman, after which wrote the remaining after,” she explains. “I’ve been in love with ladies for my entire life, however I simply didn’t perceive – till, final 12 months, I realised I needed my face in a vagina.”

On condition that quote, it could come as a shock that she by no means deliberate to speak about her sexuality “ever, in one million years”. In 2023, nevertheless, Eilish criticised Selection for “outing” her at a purple carpet occasion, writing in an Instagram publish: “i like girls and boys go away me alone about it please actually who cares.” Wanting again on this second now, she means that the publish was an overreaction, however maintains that the query was invasive. “Who fucking cares?” she says. “The entire world all of the sudden determined who I used to be, and I didn’t get to say something or management any of it. No person must be pressured into being one factor or the opposite, and I believe that there’s loads of wanting labels in all places.”

Elsewhere within the interview with Rolling Stone, Eilish goes on to debate her “compulsive” need to overshare, in addition to her environmental efforts and, after all, the brand new music. Oh yeah, after which there’s the half when the world’s (unfairly-maligned) whale inhabitants catches some inexplicable strays: “How can anyone simply settle for {that a} whale exists, y’all? These issues are huge. The noises they make. That shit is terrifying to me. Ew! Terrifying.” Learn it in full right here.