Adam Faith Gives Views On Sex

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30066, 26 February 1963, Page 15

Adam Faith Gives Views On Sex

(Special Correspondent N.Z.PA.)

LONDON, February 24. “1 have never had sex in my life and I am still • looking for someone to fall in love with,” Adam -Faith, the 22-year-old pop singer, told ’ a gathering ' of reporters who interviewed Mm after be. had discussed sex and teen-agers in private with a team bf scientific experts clergymen, doctors, teacher*, and social workers headed by Dn David Brown, a general practitioner In Liverpool. They have spent the last 18 months investigating teenage sex problems for the British Medical Association and they invited Faith to give evidence 'after seeing him discuss young people and sex on a television programme.

“Adam’s views were a great help. His evidence will be most useful to us,” said Dr. Brown afterwards. Faith told reporters the experts had asked him some very personal things about - bis feelings -on lust and love. '•Although I am lustful — isn't everybody?—l have never gone further than a kiss and a cuddle. I am deadly serious when I say all my relationships with girls have been platonic. I am not frustrated though my needs are great. I believe in love—and I am not interested in lust. “I told the committee loneliness is one of the biggest

teen-age worries. When you are a teen-ager you are not a kid and you are not an adult. You are in between, confused and alone. You long for love and to be loved. ‘‘Like ali young people 1 am looking for love. I want to fall in love and merry. I go out with dozens of girls always searching for the right one. I am still lonely but lam learning to cope with loneliness now I am older. I busy myself with work and try to put sex right out of my mind*