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"I think for most of us, our biggest frailties are sexual"

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George Michael delivers this like a shrug that’s actually a confession: the soft-spoken “I think” and “for most of us” make it sound observational, even democratic, before the line lands on “sexual” with a thud of honesty. It’s a pop star’s way of puncturing the tidy myth that our worst mistakes are about money, power, or ambition. He’s pointing at the thing people rationalize, hide, and dramatize more than anything else because it touches identity, shame, thrill, and the craving to be seen.

The intent is both self-protective and daring. By framing frailty as a shared condition, he dilutes the voyeurism that always clings to celebrity sex lives, including his own. He’s not begging absolution; he’s insisting on proportion. Sexual behavior isn’t a side plot to character, he suggests, it’s where character gets stress-tested: secrecy versus honesty, appetite versus restraint, intimacy versus performance.

The subtext carries the weight of his era and his biography. Michael came up in a culture that treated desire as commodity and scandal at once: tabloid scrutiny, moral panic around AIDS, and a music industry happy to market eroticism while punishing queerness. His public battles with privacy and sexuality didn’t just make him an example; they made him an analyst of the trap. The line implies that “frailty” isn’t only personal weakness but a social pressure point: sex is where society’s rules get enforced, and where people most often break.

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Michael, George. (2026, January 15). I think for most of us, our biggest frailties are sexual. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-think-for-most-of-us-our-biggest-frailties-are-148442/

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Michael, George. "I think for most of us, our biggest frailties are sexual." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-think-for-most-of-us-our-biggest-frailties-are-148442/.

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"I think for most of us, our biggest frailties are sexual." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-think-for-most-of-us-our-biggest-frailties-are-148442/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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George Michael (June 25, 1963 - December 25, 2016) was a Musician from United Kingdom.

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