MovieLine did an interview with Ashton Kutcher and Natalie Portman about their new film No Strings Attached in which Natalie Portman plays a friend with benefits. I’m going out on a limb here but I’m guessing they develop feelings for each other. Anyway, besides talking about Natalie really letting herself go after Black Swan, Ashton goes on a rant about the female orgasm.
I don’t want to veer off on a weird human trafficking thing, but — is that, especially for women in the sex education process in schools, the one thing they teach about is how to get pregnant or how to not get pregnant, but they don’t really talk about sex as a point of pleasure for women. The male orgasm is actually right there and readily available to learn about because it’s actually part of the reproductive cycle, but the female orgasm isn’t really talked about in the education system. Part of that creates a place where women aren’t empowered around their own sexuality and their own sexual selves, and from a purely entertainment point of view, to create a movie with a female lead that’s empowered with her own sexuality is a powerful thing. And if we can give teenage people something to think about from a sex perspective, I would say it would be to open a conversation where women are empowered with their own sexual experiences from an educational level as well as an entertainment level.”
Ashton is right but that’s mainly because the female orgasm is a myth like the Loch Ness Monster or Paris Hilton’s dignity. You always hear stories about it but there’s no hard evidence. One time I attempted to confirm this female orgasm thing but two minutes after I finished, guess what? No female orgasm!
