Dolly Parton’s husband Carl Thomas Dean was “crushed” that she wasn’t a virgin when they got married.
The Jolene hitmaker admitted to “experimenting” when she was young, and loved to play racy games of “doctors and nurses” before she finally met Carl when she was 18 and living in Nashville. Though Dolly has never clarified when exactly she first had sex, she has said it was before she met her hubby.
She channelled those feelings into the 1968 hit Just Because I’m a Woman, singing: “I’m sorry that I’m not the woman you thought I’d be / But listen and understand / My mistakes are no worse than yours / Just because I’m a woman.”
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In 2009, she told Entertainment Weekly: “My husband had never asked me if I had ever been with anybody else, and I certainly wasn’t gonna volunteer it, because I assumed it didn’t matter. But I guess it did. Eight months into our marriage, he decides one day out of nowhere to ask.
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“I figured the truth was better, because I didn’t want to start a marriage out with a lie, and I wasn’t ‘like a virgin.’ And it just crushed him. But he got over it pretty quick, and never bothered to ask me anything he didn’t want to know the answer to again!”
In her 2017 book Dolly on Dolly, Interviews and Encounters with Dolly Parton, she confessed: “I always had an open mind about sex. We all did. It was not a vulgar thing.” She learned about sex from her uncles and older cousins, explaining: “When they would come to visit us, they’d teach us all kinds of meanness or tell us about this or that. And soon as we got a chance, we’d try it.
“We didn’t know what we were doin’, we just knew we weren’t supposed to let Momma and Daddy know it. We would just play doctor and nurse, just explore and experiment.
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“I always loved sex. I never had a bad experience with it. I was just very emotional. To me, sex was not dirty. It was somethin’ very intimate and very real.”
She’s always been open about the topic, and even headed to see a porn film when she was 21, for her first time visiting Manhattan. She headed out to see a film with her friend – but the pair were mistaken for sex workers by men who manhandled them in the street, until Dolly pulled a pistol.
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Racy games weren’t the only thing on Dolly’s mind growing up. When she shared a bed with three or four of her siblings growing up, she thought it was a “pleasure” when someone would wet the bed – meaning she had to bathe every night.
She wrote: “That was the only warm thing we knew in the wintertime. That was our most pleasure to get peed on.”
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