Models, groupies, Pam Anderson -- when a rock star's looking for a mate, the choices are predictable. But when his paramour can match him power chord for chord, people notice. Such was the case when Josh Homme, lead singer of Queens of the Stone Age, and Brody Dalle, Aussie frontwoman of the Distillers (and estranged wife of Rancid's Tim Armstrong), played tonsil hockey at a Rolling Stone photo shoot this spring. Since then, Homme has stayed tight-lipped about his Queen bee. "There's enough shit made up right now about Brody and me," he told Playboy.com during his current tour. "I'm not Fred Durst."

Homme may keep his private life under wraps, but his privates are another matter. "With the Queens, Nick showing his dick is his shtick," he says, referring to bandmate Nick Oliveri's penchant for playing naked. "But at Eagles of Death Metal [Homme's other band] shows I've worn dresses and flashed the audience." Here's the full frontal on the rest of his sex life.

1. Define sexy.

Josh Homme: Curves are very good. A Raquel Welch body. When a woman is overly slender I just want to take her out to dinner. I'm like, "I know you're hungry. Just eat something, girl."

2. Do you like your women tattooed and pierced?

JH: Tattoos and piercings are either there or not there. They're not something I look for. I don't not notice them. They're sort of like bonuses or...condiments.

3. Got any nicknames for your dick?

JH: Charles in Charge. No, I don't have a nickname for my dick. I don't talk to it or make any big decisions with it. Although, when I'm interrogating a prisoner sometimes I use it to pistol-whip them. I garden with it as well. I sow the seeds.

4. How'd you lose your virginity?

JH: Well I lost it, but then I found it, and it was behind the couch with that one sock that's always missing. [Laughs] I was supposed to go to youth group, and I didn't go. She was just a girl I knew from school. I mean, I was 13. Who else would it be? But it was way better than I expected it to be. I've been addicted ever since.

5. You're a redhead. Does the rug match the curtains?

JH: Of course. This is not Salon Selectives, okay?

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