Taylor Swift says she ‘swore off’ dating men after being attacked by ‘Slut Shaming’

Taylor Swift33, she got candid about experiencing “slut-shaming” and continued to rumble about her sexuality in the liner notes of her new re-release. 1989 (Taylor version). In the statement, the now-billionaire revealed that she had focused on friendships with other women due to her negative comments about her love life, as she reported. PEOPLE on October 27. “I have become the target of a shame, the intensity and relentlessness of which would be criticized and denounced if it happened today,” she wrote in the notes.

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“He jokes about my number of boyfriends,” Taylor, who is currently dating an NFL star Travis Kelce He started writing. “The trivialization of my compositions as if it were a predatory act of a crazy psychopathic boy… I had to stop because he was starting to hurt a lot.” Following continued public criticism of the 24-year-old’s romantic life, Taylor admitted that she had “given up” on dating men and was prioritizing her friends.

“If they had seen me with him, I would have had to sleep with him. And so I gave up dating, dating, flirting, or anything that could be weaponized against me by a culture that claimed to believe in women’s liberation but constantly treated me with the harsh moral codes of the Victorian era. – Singer Heroes,” he wrote. Taylor broke up with her longtime boyfriend Joe Alwyn in April 2023 after dating for six years and starting dating Travis last month.

The Grammy winner wrote about her decision to delve deeper into her career and herself during that time in her life. “I stopped dating and decided to just focus on myself, my music, my growth and my female friendships. If I only went out with my friends, people wouldn’t be able to sensationalize or sexualize it, right? “I later found out that people could and would do it,” she continued. Taylor concluded the special letter to fans with an expression of gratitude.

“You, who knew that maybe a girl surrounding herself with friends in adulthood makes up for the lack of them in childhood (and doesn’t start a tyrannical cult of attractive girls),” she wrote. “You, who saw that I reinvented myself for a million reasons, and one of them is to do my best to entertain you. You, who had the grace to grant me the freedom to change.”

The hitmaker announced her latest re-recorded album on August 9 during her Tour of the eras. 1989 (Taylor version) has already been released and includes a new re-recorded version of “Bad Blood” featuring the rapper Kendrick Lamar36.