British singer Craig David announces he’s now celibate: ‘Many different traumas’

British singer, songwriter and DJ Craig David has made a very unexpected admission about his sex life, admitting: “Things are different.”

Craig David revealed he’s currently celibate. Picture: Andrew Parsons - WPA Pool/Getty Images

Singer Craig David — known for his sexy lyrics and womanising ways — has made a dramatic announcement about his sex life, revealing he’s gone celibate.

The decision is a long way from the famous line in his 2000 hit 7 Days in which he boasts of “making love by Wednesday, and then on Thursday, and Friday and Saturday”.

David said the sex break will leave him in a “healthy place” for when he next has a relationship, reports The Sun.

He added: “Sometimes you gotta pull it back, man.

“I’m 42 years old now — things are different.

“If we can’t deep dive, if I can’t have a conversation and at the same time laugh like crazy with you, and see the beauty from within you, then we’re just gonna be doing the same game that I’ve been playing since day one.

“I don’t want that anymore.”

The singer and DJ revealed he’s changed his ways. Picture: Andrew Parsons - WPA Pool/Getty Images

The DJ, singer and songwriter’s hits also include All The Way, and Rendezvous which repeats the line “getting jiggy just for fun”.

But he told broadcaster Louis Theroux’s podcast that he was not currently dating and had not had sex for “maybe a year or so”.

David’s hit songs feature plenty of sexy lyrics.

He said repeated one-night stands can lead to “many different traumas” — and he wanted a relationship in which both people started from “a good place”.

David said he now realised in his 20s and 30s that he had a string of superficial short-term relationships because he was scared of getting hurt.

That followed the painful break-up of a whirlwind romance when he was just 16.

He added: “I had never felt anything like that before.

“My heart kind of closed down.”

This article originally appeared in The Sun and was reproduced with permission

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