"I have been celibate for about six or seven months, I think. I would rather just make out and kiss someone instead of sex. I'm single. I said I would be single for a year and I am"
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The pivot from sex to “just make out and kiss” reads like a recalibration of intimacy for an audience that watched her body and relationships turned into public property. Hilton isn’t arguing that sex is bad; she’s choosing a slower, safer register of desire. That’s a subtle rebuke to the early-2000s celebrity machine that demanded escalation: more scandal, more access, more “real.” Here, the “real” is restraint.
“I’m single. I said I would be single for a year and I am” is the sharpest line because it frames singleness as a decision, not a failure to be chosen. It’s a contract with herself, not a plea for validation. Coming from someone whose fame was built on the illusion that her life was a party anyone could enter, the insistence on time limits and self-imposed rules suggests control as the new status symbol.
The subtext is recovery - not necessarily from sex, but from a persona that treated sex as content. In 2020s terms, this is boundary-setting as image management, and it works precisely because it sounds almost boring. Boring is the point.
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Hilton, Paris. (2026, January 18). I have been celibate for about six or seven months, I think. I would rather just make out and kiss someone instead of sex. I'm single. I said I would be single for a year and I am. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-have-been-celibate-for-about-six-or-seven-4650/
Chicago Style
Hilton, Paris. "I have been celibate for about six or seven months, I think. I would rather just make out and kiss someone instead of sex. I'm single. I said I would be single for a year and I am." FixQuotes. January 18, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-have-been-celibate-for-about-six-or-seven-4650/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I have been celibate for about six or seven months, I think. I would rather just make out and kiss someone instead of sex. I'm single. I said I would be single for a year and I am." FixQuotes, 18 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-have-been-celibate-for-about-six-or-seven-4650/. Accessed 5 Feb. 2026.








