#purity clause

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“Look at how he reacted to knowing he no longer had that purity clause.”

Wait what is a purity clause Gina? I am lost

In the Better Homes and Gardens interview Harry gave for Harry’s House promo, he mentioned that there was a purity clause when he was in the band (I assume for all of them, not just him). We don’t know the details, but in general it would be an agreement not to do anything that would fuck up his image (ie: things like getting caught with drugs, hiring sex-workers, saying racist shit, getting arrested, admitting to being anything but straight, etc.). He said he cried when he signed his new contract and found out his career wouldn’t end if he went to jail.

I honestly can’t imagine the pressure he’d been under from the age of 16.

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Do you think the cleanliness clause and everything he mentioned about the industry during the HSH promo was part of a narrative, or was it actually true? Because he only started bringing up those topics recently.

Hi, darling. I want to gently suggest you re-read what he said about that topic. You’re suggesting that he spoke so explicitly about the kind of trauma that comes from having something like that in place from the age of 16 to 21, but was actually lying about it. To push a narrative of… what? That he had been traumatized?

No. I think it’s more likely that he’d finally processed it enough that he was able to talk about it.

In reference to this

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Hello, I recently revisited Harry’s BHG interview and came across this quote:

"For a long time, it felt like the only thing that was mine was my sex life. I felt so ashamed about it, ashamed at the idea of people even knowing that I was having sex, let alone who with."

Some people were theorizing that he would have no reason to feel ashamed if he was—as the media perceives him to be—having sex with women.

Personally agreeing with that theory, I think he was referring to the fact that he was so wrapped up in his straight, womanizer persona that he would feel "ashamed" during the intimate real life moments he shares with his partner (who obviously I think is Louis as I am a larrie) …

what are your thoughts? Thank you :)

Hi, sugar. Hm. I see what you’re saying, and yeah, i can see that absolutely being something he struggled with.

I think, given the context of what he was talking about in that interview (the purity clause etc), that even just the idea that he had sex at all, regardless of who with, had been made to seem like a shameful thing he had to hide from the world. So, I agree that if he was actually sleeping with women there’s less he would be shamed for especially given how much he was sexualized while in the band. But the assumption that it was a man he was sleeping with, on top of the fact that they all were meant to portray this squeaky clean sexless image (never mind that he was being sexualized at every turn). So people thinking he was having sex at all was made into this terrible thing. And then throw in how harshly they were closeted…

That quote makes me so fucking angry. Can you imagine how traumatizing that is? Everything about you is all over the internet, everyone is speculating about you, and the one thing you have that’s private, the one part of you that feels your own, you’re made to feel is something to be ashamed of. And he was so young. I just rage when I give too much thought to what they’ve been through.