“I always call it a dance — it’s a dance, we’re exchanging energy,” Shailene Woodley said of sex
often likens sex to dancing!
While promoting her new Starz series, Three Women, and her charity, , on the Tuesday, Sept. 24th episode of the podcast, Woodley, 32, described herself as “a very sexual person” during a larger conversation revolving around women’s health matters and societal expectations around sex 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 said. “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.”
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The actress recalled that she “had somebody that helped me discover myself because there was a sense of comfortability together” during a relationship in her adolescence, though she took care not to name the former partner in question.
“I think that I probably did the same for him,” she added.
Woodley has largely kept her own love life private since she from ex-fiancé in February 2022. Prior to that relationship, she was romantically linked to rugby player , whom she reportedly met in Fiji while she was filming the movie . Woodley later revealed that she and Volavola had split in an April 2020 interview with the .
While speaking further about people’s relationships with sex on the podcast, Woodley likened porn to “junk food.”
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“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 said. “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 also has a new movie, Killer Heat, now streaming on Prime Video.
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