Clay Aiken Won’t Take Advantage Of His ‘Claymates’

Women are so moved by Clay Aiken’s presence that they hurl their panties onstage as if he were Elvis, which mystifies the ‘American Idol’ runner-up. “Ruben always jokes with me that I could have any woman out there,” Aiken told Elle magazine. “He says, ‘You need to hook up with somebody before you leave the tour.’ But I try and explain that that’s not what this is about for me. The reason women like me, I think, is because I don’t threaten them. I realize Ruben’s right, I probably could…” — he pauses and blushes — “…you know, but I respect women more than that.” He wrinkles his brow, then shakes his head. “I am extremely flattered. There are some gorgeous women who are “in love with me,’ but I think taking advantage of that is wrong.” Besides, Aiken is a man who takes sex seriously. “I was raised by my mother and grandmothers, and a lot of what I am is because I wanted to be different from my birth father. He was a womanizer, when I would go to visit him, there would be a different woman over there everytime. I thought that was really tacky.”