Lady Gaga: "I Only Started Enjoying Sex Two Years Ago"

KOMPAS.com - She's been accused of being overtly sexual with her minuscule outfits and controversial videos. But Lady Gaga admitted she didn't even enjoy sex until two years ago after revealing losing her virginity was a 'absolutely terrible experience'.

The New Yorker, 24, concedes she wasn't ready at the time, but is thankful she has always practised safe sex.

With the issue close to her heart, Gaga is currently promoting her M.A.C. Viva Glam lipstick - with proceeds going towards HIV and AIDS charities.

She tells the new issue of Grazia magazine: 'I didn’t lose my virginity until I was 17. But I have to say even then I wasn’t ready and it was an absolutely terrible experience. It wasn’t good at all.

'I have never not had safe sex, I have always asked a guy to be tested and to use protection, which was always my rule. Otherwise you’re playing Russian Roulette.'

Lady Gaga, real name Stefani Germanotta, admits her early sexual experiences left her finding the act unpleasant, but she has begun to enjoy love-making with boyfriend Luc Carl, 32. She originally dated him when she was 19 before splitting, but the pair reconciled last June.

She explained: 'I never actually enjoyed sex until two years ago. It was a proper monogamous relationship in which I felt free enough to trust and I had enough self love.

'Sex is the ultimate expression of vulnerability and for me it was important to know that it was a proper relationship so it was sex as a source of love and nothing else.'

Two weeks ago, Lady Gaga made a show-stopping entrance to the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles carried along the red carpet in a egg-like vessel. And now the singer is claiming she spent three days inside it before emerging on stage during her performance at the awards bash.

She said: 'I have an idea or an idea comes and I just go with it, like my vessel at The Grammys. That was so perfect, the whole idea of my next album and single, Born This Way and then the vessel… or the egg as everyone kept calling it.'