LIKE BUNNIES IN THE STREET

There's a song on Love At The Bottom Of The Sea called "God Wants Us to Wait". Have you ever encountered anyone who told you that?

Stephin Merritt - If you Google "God wants us to wait" there are whole websites about so-called abstinence education – as if one has to be taught how to not have sex. I went to elementary school partly in Boston, which is a very Catholic town, and there was a lot of talk about abstinence and guilt.

Obviously it didn't have much effect on you.

Stephin Merritt - It's actually a complicated issue for me because while I detest Christianity and think ethics are bunk, I also realise Aids more or less destroyed the argument that we should all fuck like bunnies in the street and that anyone who says otherwise is a moron. While it is true, obviously, that we should fuck like bunnies in the street, we need to be wearing the proper clothing while doing so. Anyway, it's a complex situation easily satirised with stupid but fun little songs such as "God Wants Us to Wait". (aqui)

(2012)