Jane Fonda Swears Out Of ‘Sexual’ Relationships: ‘I Don’t Have That Desire’

Jane Fonda is happy to embrace her single life.

The Oscar winner twice appears on the April cover of Harper’s Bazaar and, in the accompanying interview, reveals that she has little interest in finding a romantic partner at this stage in her life.

“One of the painful things I noticed around 80 – I don’t even know how old I am – 83 and single now,” said Fonda. “What I really had to think about is that I’m not really capable [of intimacy]. They are not. It’s me.”

“I don’t want to have a relationship, a sexual relationship, again,” she continued. “I don’t have that desire.”

Of course, that didn’t stop the “Grace and Frankie” star from evaluating “fantasy” suitors, noting that she would love to meet “a professor or researcher, someone in that line who is really capable of loving, of esteeming a woman, so that I could test me and see if I could show up. ”

“I think maybe I could now, but the problem is, as a man, I would like a younger man,” she added. “Isn’t it awful? It is a matter of skin. I would like a younger man, and I am very conceited. ”

Fonda is happily discouraged since her separation from music producer Richard Perry in 2017, with whom she dated for almost a decade. Her third and most recent marriage was to CNN founder Ted Turner. The couple divorced in 2001 after 10 years together.

It is not the first time that the famous outspoken actor has hinted that his love life is no longer a focus. In 2018, she told “Extra” that she “closed the store there” after she and Perry split up.

“I’m not dating anymore,” she said at the time, “but I dated until a few years ago.”

If Fonda can never enjoy another romantic occasion again, well, she tells Harper’s Bazaar that she believes there is a lining of hope.

“I am so grateful that I don’t have to be naked in front of anyone again, even by candlelight,” she joked. “And if I did, I mean, in my fantasy, the man is younger than me, so that would make things even more difficult.”

Currently, Fonda remains busy with political and environmental activism. Last month, she delivered a passionate speech about the need for diverse narratives at the 2021 Golden Globe Awards, where she received the Cecil B. DeMille Award in recognition of her five-decade career.

This summer, she and Lily Tomlin are due to film the seventh and final season of “Grace and Frankie”, which will feature guest “9 to 5” co-star Dolly Parton.