In her new self-titled memoir, Cher gets frank about her sex life.

Chermay now be the queen ofburlesque, but as a teenager, she wasn’t particularly interested in sex.

Are we finished?'"

Cher 1966

Cher in 1966.Michael Ochs Archives/Getty

“Then I told him to go home and never come back.

I wanted him to feel just as dismissed as he’d made me feel.

Even though he kept trying to make it up to me, I never spoke to him again.”

It wasn’t long after this that Cher metSonny Bonowhen she was only sixteen years old.

They became close friends, roommates, lovers, and eventually married.

Before, [men my age] just never, they were always terrified to approach me."