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Appearing on the smoking hot cover of Paper magazine’s appropriately titled ‘Sexy’ issue, the former One Direction band member and current R&B superstar proved he has no hang-ups about being a gay sex symbol.
He said: “If guys find me attractive, then that’s a cool thing as well. It’s sick. It’s a compliment. I’m blessed by whoever was up there to be who I am and be able to do what I do. I genuinely mean that.”
During the interview, he also spoke about the explicitly sexual content on his debut album, Mind Of Mine, including lead single Pillow Talk, an ode to “fucking” and “fighting” in bed all day.
He continued: “It wasn’t a conscious decision to make [the album] sexual or refer to sex, but I just found out that a lot of situations that I was in were quite sexual situations – all of the time. I enjoyed singing about [sex], clearly.”
You can read the full interview with Zayn over at papermag.com