{"id":12927,"date":"2024-09-14T09:00:39","date_gmt":"2024-09-14T09:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=12927"},"modified":"2024-09-14T09:23:56","modified_gmt":"2024-09-14T09:23:56","slug":"gillian-anderson-wants-women-to-put-pleasure-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=12927","title":{"rendered":"Gillian Anderson Wants Women to Put Pleasure First"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In 1998, when Gillian Anderson posed<\/a> for the cover of the now-defunct feminist magazine Jane, she had already been voted the \u201cworld\u2019s sexiest woman\u201d by the readers of FHM magazine. She had also recently won a Golden Globe and two Screen Actors Guild Awards for her role as the F.B.I. special agent Dr. Dana Scully on \u201cThe X-Files.\u201d<\/p>\n

But on the day of the shoot, all she could think about was how fat she felt.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo much of my youth, at a time when I could have \u2014 should have \u2014 been as happy as you can imagine,\u201d was spent obsessing over perceived flaws, she said. She recounted the experience to me in her temporary condo in Calgary, where she was shooting a period western called \u201cThe Abandons\u201d for Netflix.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know from experience that when one is locked in shame, it\u2019s very difficult to experience pleasure,\u201d she added. \u201cThere\u2019s no crack in the door for it to come through.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now, after decades of working through her own self-loathing, Ms. Anderson, 56, said she wants to help spare others from the pressure to conform to cultural expectations around the way a woman looks, thinks and behaves. Particularly as it relates to sex.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Because even if you\u2019re the actual sexiest person in the world, you can feel entirely unsexy if you\u2019re self-conscious or full of shame, she said. Beyond that, she has come to believe that the discomfort many women have with their bodies and desires is holding them back \u2014 in the bedroom and in life.<\/p>\n

Over the past few years, Ms. Anderson has taken on a handful of side projects focused on women\u2019s pleasure, including publishing a new book, \u201cWant: Sexual Fantasies by Anonymous,\u201d on Sept. 17. The book is meant to help women feel more comfortable expressing their most intimate desires and embracing what feels good.<\/p>\n

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In 1998, when Gillian Anderson posed for the cover of the now-defunct feminist magazine Jane, she had already been voted the \u201cworld\u2019s sexiest woman\u201d by the readers of FHM magazine. She had also recently won a Golden Globe and two Screen Actors Guild Awards for her role as the F.B.I. special agent Dr. Dana Scully on \u201cThe X-Files.\u201dBut on the day of the shoot, all she could think about was how fat she felt.\u201cSo much of my youth, at a time when I could have \u2014 should have \u2014 been as happy as you can imagine,\u201d was spent obsessing over perceived flaws, she said. She recounted the experience to me in her temporary condo in Calgary, where she was shooting a period western called \u201cThe Abandons\u201d for Netflix.\u201cI know from experience that when one is locked in shame, it\u2019s very difficult to experience pleasure,\u201d she added. \u201cThere\u2019s no crack in the door for it to come through.\u201dNow, after decades of working through her own self-loathing, Ms. Anderson, 56, said she wants to help spare others from the pressure to conform to cultural expectations around the way a woman looks, thinks and behaves. Particularly as it relates to sex.Because even if you\u2019re the actual sexiest person in the world, you can feel entirely unsexy if you\u2019re self-conscious or full of shame, she said. Beyond that, she has come to believe that the discomfort many women have with their bodies and desires is holding them back \u2014 in the bedroom and in life.Over the past few years, Ms. Anderson has taken on a handful of side projects focused on women\u2019s pleasure, including publishing a new book, \u201cWant: Sexual Fantasies by Anonymous,\u201d on Sept. 17. The book is meant to help women feel more comfortable expressing their most intimate desires and embracing what feels good.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12929,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12927"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12930,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12927\/revisions\/12930"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}