At the end of the 1970s, the United States discovered a mysterious epidemic which mainly affected the gay community. It was not until the early 1980s that the whole world discovered the existence of AIDS. Since then, research has continued to find a treatment to fight the disease. At a time when the dead were counted in the thousands, a French singer had chosen to give up sex to protect himself.
Indeed, it is the popular and mythical Michel Polnareff who confided in the subject with sincerity during an interview granted to the magazine Unbreakablein 2018.”I was very sexually active at the time, we were three friends, there was not a single blonde who escaped us! We got married. For me, people who didn’t experience the 1970s have a huge void in their being. I was so active back then that when I looked at my games, I thought they were going to fall!“, he said then to evoke his life of party animal and seducer.
But the performer of the hits Letter to France, We’ll all go to heaven, I am a man or Goodbye Marylou saw the AIDS epidemic make its appearance and he got scared. Michel Polnareff has thus taken a radical decision: to give up sexual relations! “Afterwards, there was the arrival of AIDS, which calmed everyone down and, for my part, I was so paranoid about it that I became inactive, sexually, for at least three years.“, added the now 77-year-old artist, who is preparing an immersive show entitled Polnarêves. To renounce, for a time, sex, it is moreover one of the subjects approached in the very beautiful play The Normal Heart which is currently playing in Paris on the stage of the Théâtre la Bruyère, in the 9th arrondissement.
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