Shailene Woodley Opens Up About Being a ‘Very Sexual Person’ | Celebrities

Shailene Woodley typically likens intercourse to dancing!

While selling her new Starz sequence, Three Women, and her charity, All It Takes, on the Tuesday, Sept. twenty fourth episode of the SHE MD podcast, Woodley, 32, described herself as “a very sexual person” throughout a bigger dialog revolving round ladies's well being issues and societal expectations round intercourse with co-hosts Dr. Thais Aliabadi and Mary Alice Haney.

“I always have been. I was very lucky in my life as a young person, discovering myself and my body, to have a partner at the time who loved to dance,” she stated. “I always call it a dance — it's a dance, we're exchanging energy. Sometimes the dance is like a really fast tango, and sometimes the dance is a really slow groove, and sometimes it's loud and sometimes really soft.”

The actress recalled that she “had somebody that helped me discover myself because there was a sense of comfortability together” throughout a relationship in her adolescence, although she took care to not title the previous accomplice in query.

“I think that I probably did the same for him,” she added.

Woodley has largely stored her personal love life non-public since she break up from ex-fiancé Aaron Rodgers in February 2022. Prior to that relationship, she was romantically linked to rugby participant Ben Volavola, whom she reportedly met in Fiji whereas she was filming the film Adrift. Woodley later revealed that she and Volavola had break up in an April 2020 interview with the The New York Times.

While talking additional about individuals's relationships with intercourse on the podcast, Woodley likened porn to “junk food.”

“This is what we're being sold when all of these other things are possible with my body because I'm like a magic machine?” she stated. “Pleasure is so important and we just rip each other off of it because I think we don't necessarily even know what's possible, and that's my big beef with porn. You're selling everybody McDonald's when you could have, like, woah — much better quality!”

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New episodes of Three Women debut Friday on Starz. Woodley additionally has a new film, Killer Heat, now streaming on Prime Video.