Jane Fonda says she 'would want a younger man' if she ever had another sexual relationship

• Jane Fonda said on Thursday that she'd want to be with a "younger man" if she ever dated again.
• She joked that she has "a thing about skin" and is "too vain" during a Harper's Bazaar interview.
• However, the 83-year-old explained that she doesn't want to have a "sexual relationship" again.

Jane Fonda said she isn't interested in dating anymore, but especially not with men her own age.

"I don't want to be in a relationship, a sexual relationship, again. I don't have that desire," the 83-year-old actress and activist told Harper's Bazaar on Thursday.

Despite her contentment being single, Fonda added that she does "fantasize" about meeting an intellectual "professor or researcher" that's "really capable of loving, of cherishing a woman."

She went on to specify that in her fantasy, the aforementioned man is also younger than her.

"I would want a younger man. Isn't that awful? It's a thing about skin. I would want a younger man, and I'm too vain," she said.

The "Grace and Frankie" star continued to say she's "grateful" she won't "have to be naked" in front of anyone again, especially the man she's dreamt up in her mind.

"If I did, I mean in my fantasy, the man is younger than me, so that would make it even harder," she said.

The actress also reflected on her previous marriages

Fonda has previously been married to French screenwriter and director Roger Vadim, activist Tom Hayden, and media mogul Ted Turner.

Since ending those relationships, she's realized that she's "not really capable [of intimacy]," the actress told Harper's Bazaar.

"It's not them. It's me," the "Coming Home" actress said, explaining that she was "attracted to men" that didn't "show up" for her because they "couldn't necessarily show up themselves."

Fonda also said that she used to seek out relationships because she felt a man could guide her "down a new path."

"I'm attracted to people who can teach me things and whose lives are different from mine, and so I give myself over to that," she said, adding, "First of all, I want to please him. That's a problem."

Fonda zeroed in on her marriage to Turner, saying that being with him felt like "marrying 15 people."

"You have to learn how to hunt, so I did. You have to learn how to fly-fish, so I did. He liked me to dress sexy, so I did. And so forth. I wanted to," she said.

Fonda continued, "Why be with Ted Turner if you're not going to allow yourself to be absorbed in his reality and learn from it? And I'm glad I did."

Fonda said she's content being on her own

Fonda, who has won two Oscars and took home this year's Cecil B. de Mille Award at the Golden Globes, dated several people after divorcing Turner in 2001.

However, she said she lost her sense of self in each relationship.

"That is my failing," she said during a 2019 appearance on "Good Morning America," continuing, "I realize I can never overcome it. That when I'm with a man, I give up myself."

Now, she's focusing on herself and the causes that are important to her, such as environmentalism, feminism, and racial equality. Fonda explained that spending time alone has never bothered her during a February interview with Self.

"I do not get lonely. I read a lot. I write a lot. I'm active on social media. I prepare for my Fire Drill Fridays," she said, referencing her virtual rallies advocating for action against climate change. She added, "So I like being alone."

Living on her own has also led her to push up her bedtime, she explained, adding that she spends her evenings exactly as she wishes.

"I don't have a husband or a lover, so I can kind of do whatever I want," she said.