Usher may be married and a father, but he’s still far from shedding his image as a sex-symbol. And despite (or maybe because of) his new role as a family man, he’s currently planning a 15-date “intimate” venue tour that will be “ladies only.”

“There’s only a few artists that can pull that off,” he said in an AP interview. “I feel like I’ve had such a connection with my audience. This album, I felt like, was definitely the type of one that was more intimate. So what better way to get up close and personal than to make it all women?”

How exactly he plans on doing this is not exactly clear, although he insisted it was an interesting challenge for him. Of course, his last album still found him as sexually-charged as ever, so it’s little wonder who his target audience is.

In conjunction with this sexy new tour, he’s currently working on a line of lingerie and men’s underwear.

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