Bachelor alum Rachael Kirkconnell is opening up about her intercourse life — or, lack thereof.
“I really feel like a virgin once more,” Kirkconnell, 29, shared on the October 16 episode of the “Additional Soiled” podcast. “I haven’t had intercourse method longer than you assume. It’s been years.”
Kirkconnell, who break up from former Bachelor Matt James in January, defined to host Hallie Batchelder that after going so lengthy with none bodily intimacy, she doesn’t need to simply “give it as much as anybody.” As an alternative, she needs to make sure that her subsequent sexual encounter will probably be “unbelievable.”
“I feel that’s why I’m a lover lady,” she continued. “As a result of I really feel like how we felt once we have been, like, in highschool. I’m not going to say everybody felt like this, however you know the way everybody simply makes dropping your virginity such an enormous deal? And it’s like, ‘Lose it to somebody particular?’ That’s how I really feel. I’m like, ‘I can’t simply give it as much as simply anybody.’ I need it to be particular.”
Kirkconnell and James, 33, known as it quits earlier this 12 months after 4 years of relationship. The twosome met throughout season 25 of The Bachelor, which aired in 2021. After James introduced the breakup through Instagram, Kirkconnell claimed days later that her now-ex shared the submit simply three hours after he broke up along with her whereas they have been on trip in Tokyo.
“I feel that I’ve come to the conclusion that a whole lot of it wasn’t me, or my fault or my downside,” Kirkconnell stated whereas sharing her facet of the story on a January episode of the “Name Her Daddy” podcast. “And I do assume it helped that I had that dialog with him and I heard these issues from him. However even when I hadn’t, I feel that’s so necessary to acknowledge it for your self, like, ‘It wasn’t absolutely me. It wasn’t 1,000 % utterly my fault.’”
Whereas showing on “Additional Soiled,” Kirkconnell revealed she’s been “chronically single” since she and James known as it quits and hasn’t “been on a single date,” or is she on any relationship apps. Whereas she famous that she isn’t “judging” anybody who chooses to search for love on-line, she isn’t positive it might “work” for her.
Kirkconnell additionally shared that she looks like she might be demisexual. When Batchelder learn the definition of demisexual as “a sexual orientation the place an individual experiences sexual attraction solely after forming a powerful emotional bond with one other particular person,” Kirkconnell replied, “I feel that’s me.”
“I can say, ‘Wow, that particular person is actually engaging.’ I clearly discover them actually engaging, I feel they’re actually scorching, however I don’t care after that, trigger they might nonetheless be like a horrible particular person or have the worst persona ever, and that might make me not need to sleep with them as a result of that absolutely turns me off,” she defined. “I suppose their attraction can solely get to this point for me. Perhaps that’s my downside, I don’t know.”
Kirkconnell then advised that “everybody” be demisexual because it looks like “such a wholesome factor to do.” When Batchelder requested her if she was additionally interested in ladies, Kirkconnell stated, “I don’t assume so, I don’t know,” however identified, “It’s all a spectrum, isn’t it?”
Whereas not fully positive about her gender choice, she burdened how relatable demisexuality’s philosophy of “having an emotional connection” with somebody earlier than having intercourse is for her.
“t don’t assume I may go house with anybody,” she stated. “I’ve to really feel protected and cozy with them and be emotionally invested at the least in a method that I may see us relationship or I at the least have a crush on them … It’s not a bodily attraction, I suppose.”


