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Harry Styles’ comments on gay sex and sexuality are frustratingly coy | Guy Lodge

Harry Styles has spent a few years at that unfortunate stage of mega-celebrity when everything he says is subjected to forensic online scrutiny for intricate layers of meaning, implication and self-betrayal – so it’s just as well, for him at least, that he’s got very good at soundbites that, even when parsed to the nth degree, don’t say very much at all.

The singer-actor’s interviews tend to be rife with uncontroversially quotable statements on the value of kindness, creativity and following your own path. His latest spread in largely follows suit, dropping such bombshells as “It’s okay to be flawed … I make mistakes sometimes,” “If

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