Mary Kenny: Was sex hotter in the more repressive 60s? Marianne Faithfull thinks so and she has a point

Singer Marianne Faithfull has had plenty to say about the swinging sixties. Photo: Getty

Mary Kenny

So, a famous “rock chick” – forever associated with the early career of Mick Jagger – claims that “sex was hotter” when it was “more repressed”. Yes, that’s the legendary Marianne Faithfull’s audacious opinion of her wild days in the swinging sixties, as told to The Oldie magazine.

Is Faithfull, at 77, having a moment? Remembrance of that golden era of youth that is forever gone?