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Jason Webber
5 min readAug 3, 2021

The Top 20 Sexiest Prince Songs

Who knows how many ’80s and ’90s babies were conceived to Prince music? Nobody but nobody left behind a more seductive and sensuous musical legacy than his late, great Royal Badness himself. With Prince once more rushing to the top of the charts with the posthumous Welcome 2 America, the world’s attention is once again focused on the legacy of Prince, who died in 2016. Growing up a Prince fan, his music scored the soundtrack to my love life from everything from my first makeout session to my first time having sex — I lost my virginity using a Purple Rain Coat Prince-brand condom back in the ‘90s.

Where to begin with including Prince into your sex life? Start here, with this list of the steamiest, sexiest Prince songs the man ever recorded. Shall we begin? Yes, Lisa.

Adore

The album closer to Sign O The Times, “Adore” reigns as arguably the sexiest song Prince ever recorded. The lyrics are beautiful and witty (“U could burn up my clothes, smash up my ride — well, maybe not the ride!”), and are delivered with a soulful silky smooth musical background that’s perfect for long, languid, extended foreplay,clocking in at almost seven minutes.

One Kiss At A Time

The ultimate Prince sex CD is disc two of “Emancipation.” From start to finish, it’s a beautiful collection of sex and love songs all written about Prince’s ex-wife Mayte. “One Kiss At A Time” is a stripped down bump-n-grind about Prince’s slow seduction technique (“Slowly I pull U’r strap down…”). I don’t know about you, but I’m taking notes.

Scandalous

Prince’s “Batman” soundtrack contains a hidden sexual gem in this scorcher, where our hero proclaims his longing to “wrap my legs around you, girl.” Worth seeking out is the Scandalous Sex Suite EP, a steamy three-part musical interlude featuring Prince and his then-squeeze Kim Basinger getting frisky in the studio. According to lore, engineers came back to Paisley Park the day after Prince and Kim recorded “Scandalous” and there was honey drizzled all over the mixing board. Whew!

Breakfast Can Wait

Morning lovemaking never sounded so good when Prince sang this ode to early morning whoopee on the “ArtOfficialAge” album a few years before he passed away. Despite sticking to the tenants of his post-Jehovah’s Witness faith — no swearing, nothing explicit — ”Breakfast Can Wait” ends up being one of the man’s sexiest moments of the final stretch of his career. The CD cover featured Dave Chappelle dressed as Prince offering pancakes, proof that Prince did indeed have a sense of humor.

Ripopgodazippa

Prominently featured in the notorious box office debacle and cult favorite “Showgirls,” this song from the mid-90s celebrates sex on a weight bench. Funny, funky, and featuring a sax riff you can’t get out of your head, “Ripopgodazippa” absolutely sizzles.

Hot Wit U

Prince’s 1999 album “Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic” was supposed to be his big comeback, similar to the one enjoyed by Carlos Santana at the end of the millennium. Unfortunately, the album barely went gold, making this sexy grinder one of Prince’s more obscure tracks. The lyrics refer to “doing the marshmallow,” which is the same thing as snowballing. If you don’t know “snowballing,” see the movie “Clerks.”

Come

The title track of Prince’s underrated 1994 “Come” is almost 13 minutes in length — perfect for those times when you just want a quickie. Lyrically, Prince is at his most explicit here, describing his oral sex technique with relish and candor. “Come…U should do that, baby.” Believe it.

Soft & Wet

Even from the age of 19, Prince was determined to shock audiences with his sexual frankness. This hit from his debut album “For You” sounds overproduced and almost amateurish when compared to the rest of Prince’s catalog, but as a burst of makeout-worthy lust, it’s unrivaled.

Do Me, Baby

One of the best known Prince “sex songs” out there, “Do Me, Baby” is responsible for Lord knows how many pregnancies. Lurid, lanquid, and lustful, this is one of the best backseat anthems Prince ever recorded.

I Love U In Me

One of Prince’s legendary B-sides, this slow burner features Prince promising “not 2 cum until she does” (spoiler alert: He fails). This song is an acquired taste, since Prince perplexingly compares intercourse to “surgery,” but it’s definitely hot stuff.

Erotic City

Perhaps Prince’s most beloved B-side, “Erotic City” actually gets some airplay on radio stations every now and then because no one can tell if Prince is saying “funk” or the f-word in the song (the handwritten lyrics found in Prince’s vault indicate it is indeed “fuck”). Inspired by George Clinton funk and featuring Wendy on co-vocals, “Erotic City” still turns us on.

The Beautiful Ones

Baby, baby, baby, what’s it gonna be? The song that Prince sings to Appollonia in “Purple Rain” is frequently cited as containing Prince’s best scream of his career. We’re not gonna argue that point. A high point of the universally beloved “Purple Rain” album, this one never gets old.

Slow Love

Most mainstream music critics consider Sign O The Times as Prince’s opus and it’s no wonder. There’s at least three songs from the album on this list, with this honey-dripping seduction ballad a favorite among many fans.

If I Was Your Girlfriend

My personal favorite Prince makeout song, this is the number all the academics like to point out as evidence of Prince’s gender fluidity. A man wishes he could be a woman so he could better understand his lover. That’s hot.

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Elizabeth Berkley strips to this rocking grinder about a naughty photo shoot (“I just wanna holler scream and shout when you let your fingers do the walkin’ in and out and all about”) in Showgirls and it’s a highlight of “The Gold Experience.”

Gett Off

One of Prince’s most famous hits from the ’90s, “Gett Off” is Prince at his most playful and lusty. Featuring lyrics about “a little box with a mirror and a tongue inside” and the famous “23 positions in the one night stand,” this jam is great both in the bedroom and on the dance floor.

Head

The song that we didn’t play around our parents out of fear they would take our Prince albums away, “Head” has firmly established itself as part of the Prince classic canon. Featuring lyrics describing an ejaculation on a wedding dress, this was pretty shocking stuff for 1980.

When 2 R N Love

Included on both The Black Album and Lovesexy, this slow burner is perfect for post-coital cuddling. With lyrics like “Let me touch Ur body until Ur river’s an ocean,” this is one of those deep Prince cuts that deserves more love.

Sleep Around

This isn’t a song you can really bang to, but this jam from disc three of Emancipation teaches everything a man needs to know about keeping a woman happy (“Do it like she likes it so U’r baby won’t wanna sleep around.”) We need that shit now more than ever.

The Continental

Prince realized that communication was the key to a good sex life. He said as much on this banger from 1992’s Love Symbol album, where Prince asks his lover to “tell me how you want to be done.” Not even the jarring so-called raps of Carmen Electra can ruin the spell cast by this song.

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Jason Webber

Author of "Purple Bananas: How Prince Saved Me & Other Selections from the Soundtrack 2 My Life." Journalist. Father. Writer.