Mick Jagger's ex-lover Marianne Faithfull, 77 explains why 'sex was hotter and more repressed' in the 1960s - as the counterculture icon lambasts modern 'hipster lite' culture

Sex was better in the 1960s, Marianne Faithfull has claimed.

The rock singer and counterculture icon lambasted today's 'hipster lite' culture.

By contrast, the former girlfriend of Mick Jagger hailed the 'old bohemia, when art was 'more intense, purer' and 'sex was hotter, too'.

In an article in The Oldie magazine, the now 77 year old said: 'What the hell happened to bohemia?

'It took 100 years for poets, painters and talented layabouts to create and just 20 years for slick pseudo-hipsters to fuck it all up.

'It's the curse of hollow tinsel bohemia.

Mick Jagger's ex-lover Marianne Faithfull has claimed that sex was better in the 1960s

Jagger's former girlfriend (pictured with him in 1967) hailed the 'old bohemia, when art was 'more intense, purer' and 'sex was hotter, too'

'Everybody's cool and nobody knows what the hell it means. It's just prêt-à-porter bohemia... consumer cool.'

She continued: 'I was happier back in the old bohemia.

'Art was more intense, purer. Sex was hotter, too - more repressed.

'And there was a genuine intellectual bohemia instead of this hipster-lite culture we have today.

'It was much smaller, much more authentic.

'I need a time machine to take me back to when the writer Caroline Blackwood was a dear friend - an inspiration, mentor and role model of the oddest sort.'

The ex-lover of Jagger said she missed artists' model Henrietta Moraes along with painter Francis Bacon - both 'epitomes' of a bygone bohemian life

She said she missed artists' model Henrietta Moraes - who was the 'epitome' of the bohemian life that's now gone - as well as painter Francis Bacon.

'I was really bad at being a junkie - it was a degrading experience - but apparently not degrading enough.

'The Star Wars actress Carrie Fisher explained to me that the problem with my life becoming the basis for a feature film was that it wasn't bad enough.

'I thought I'd degraded myself plenty, but apparently not. I guess I wasn't thinking of the movie rights.

'Take me back to the old Bohemia.'