Jill Robinson, The Sun
Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones is set to release a new autobiography. Picture: SH/Splash NewsSource:Supplied
The 61-year-old was molested by his stepfather when he was just ten, and the rocker believes it turned him into a sex addict as an adult and left him unable to maintain a loving relationship, The Sun reports.
Jones is set to release an autobiography, Lonely Boy, where he reveals all about his murky sexual past which included romps with both men and women.
The star also believes the abuse he faced as a child left permanent scars and a skewed idea of what was normal.
He told The Sunday People: “It wasn’t the end of the world. I wasn’t locked in a dungeon or anything like that, but it did enough to send me spinning. Looking back, that’s why I’ve never been able to settle with anyone and why I’ve ended up a sex addict.”
The Sex Pistols sipping tea under a parasol at Stanbridge Farm.
Picture: SuppliedSource:News Corp Australia
Jones also confessed to being given cash to perform a sex act on a random man in the aftermath of his isolated incident with his stepfather, with the abuser in question seizing on his vulnerability.
“It’s not like I was wearing a badge that said, ‘I have just been molested’,” he said. “But once it’s happened for the first time I guess it’s more likely to happen again, because from then on there’s a little voice in your head that this is what normal is.”
The Sex Pistols (from left) Steve Jones, Sid Vicious, John Lydon and Paul Cook.
Vicious replaced original member Glen Matlock (not pictured) in 1977. Picture: Supplied
In fact, his warped perception of normality led Jones as a boy to get another youngster to perform a sex act on him while on a train, giving him 50 pence “for his trouble”.
But despite his many sexual encounters with men over the years, the God Save the Queen performer insists he never once thought of himself as gay.
Paul Cook, Johnny Rotten (John Lydon), Glen Matlock and Steve Jones do a press conference.
Picture: SuppliedSource:News Corp Australia
In fact, during the band’s heyday, he was so obsessed with sex he slept with all of his bandmates’ partners, including Sid Vicious’s girlfriend Nancy Spungen.
“There was so much shagging going on at this time — at least there was on my part,” he said. “Any chance I got I’d be trying to get my end away, usually in a cupboard or a toilet or an alley round the back of the venue.”
However Jones is hoping that by speaking out, he can help others who are going through the same thing.
“I never told anyone about it for years and it feels strange putting this in a book even now,” he said.
“But knowing the damage ... the confusion I felt makes me want to let anyone who’s been in a similar situation know they’re not alone.”
Unfortunately, too people are perverted like Jones was and come to think it normal. If they turn out to be Rock Stars and role models for a lost generation, they project their view of normal to those who idolize them, and that skews their concept of normal. In other words, they contribute greatly to how screwed-up the world is.
SEX Pistols guitarist Steve Jones has revealed the devastating impact being sexually abused as a child has had on his life
Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones is set to release a new autobiography. Picture: SH/Splash NewsSource:SuppliedThe 61-year-old was molested by his stepfather when he was just ten, and the rocker believes it turned him into a sex addict as an adult and left him unable to maintain a loving relationship, The Sun reports.
Jones is set to release an autobiography, Lonely Boy, where he reveals all about his murky sexual past which included romps with both men and women.
The star also believes the abuse he faced as a child left permanent scars and a skewed idea of what was normal.
He told The Sunday People: “It wasn’t the end of the world. I wasn’t locked in a dungeon or anything like that, but it did enough to send me spinning. Looking back, that’s why I’ve never been able to settle with anyone and why I’ve ended up a sex addict.”
Picture: SuppliedSource:News Corp Australia
Jones also confessed to being given cash to perform a sex act on a random man in the aftermath of his isolated incident with his stepfather, with the abuser in question seizing on his vulnerability.
“It’s not like I was wearing a badge that said, ‘I have just been molested’,” he said. “But once it’s happened for the first time I guess it’s more likely to happen again, because from then on there’s a little voice in your head that this is what normal is.”
Vicious replaced original member Glen Matlock (not pictured) in 1977. Picture: Supplied
In fact, his warped perception of normality led Jones as a boy to get another youngster to perform a sex act on him while on a train, giving him 50 pence “for his trouble”.
But despite his many sexual encounters with men over the years, the God Save the Queen performer insists he never once thought of himself as gay.
Picture: SuppliedSource:News Corp Australia
In fact, during the band’s heyday, he was so obsessed with sex he slept with all of his bandmates’ partners, including Sid Vicious’s girlfriend Nancy Spungen.
“There was so much shagging going on at this time — at least there was on my part,” he said. “Any chance I got I’d be trying to get my end away, usually in a cupboard or a toilet or an alley round the back of the venue.”
However Jones is hoping that by speaking out, he can help others who are going through the same thing.
“I never told anyone about it for years and it feels strange putting this in a book even now,” he said.
“But knowing the damage ... the confusion I felt makes me want to let anyone who’s been in a similar situation know they’re not alone.”
Unfortunately, too people are perverted like Jones was and come to think it normal. If they turn out to be Rock Stars and role models for a lost generation, they project their view of normal to those who idolize them, and that skews their concept of normal. In other words, they contribute greatly to how screwed-up the world is.
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