He may be known for his womanizing ways, but Jack Nicholson has admitted that he gave up one night stands over fears he would contract AIDS.

"In my lifetime, from World War II on, life got freer and freer until herpes, then AIDS” claims The Departed star “That was the end, ask any bar owner. Things moved to the right.

"Once this idea that you can die from sex got into people's heads, it became a weapon in the hands of stiff, erect, martinet father/parent fascists to suppress sensuality. When you start doing that, society gets rigid, and social life as I knew it was over, fast. I loved that era, and it's gone."

Nicholson also revealed that he sympathizes with youth today who will 'never know the freedom he knew.'

"Everything is about infections now” added the actor “Anybody under 30 has never known the freedom I knew. They're frightened, they have no idea about alternative lifestyles.

"Freedom has never been part of the air they breathe. Naturally, I reacted differently to this fear of freedom, because it is a fear of feeling. I'm not talking about being profligate with sex and drugs. Fear of freedom is a withholding of love, and it's unyielding."