At an era when the world is progressing in terms of innovation and technology, mindsets continue to remain narrow when it comes to being expressive about sex talks. Sex, consent are concepts yet considered as a taboo and seems like it’s a sin when you openly talk about it.
But our dear industry friends, have managed to keep us awed with their, at times, clever statements. Sometimes scripted or not they make public revelations of their thought and off-screen lives.
We have listed down 10 celebrities who have never shied away from making bold statements about sex in public:
1. Radhika Apte
“I think sex is sealable because it is a taboo.”
2. Kalki Koechlin
“I allowed someone to have sex with me at the age of nine, not understanding fully what it meant and my biggest fear after that was my mother would find out.”
3. Sunny Leone
“If I cared about what other people thought of me, I wouldn’t be where I am right now.”
4. Deepika Padukone
“Sex before marriage is my choice.”
5. Ranveer Singh
“Sex is a beautiful and perfectly natural phenomenon. By no means, it is bad or an evil thing. So, there is no reason really to be cagey about it.”
6. Anurag Kashyap
“I have forgiven the man who abused man. I met him after many years. He wasn’t some dirty old man. He was guilt-ridden when he saw me.”
7. Anoushka Shankar
“As a child, I suffered sexual and emotional abuse for several years at the hands of a man whom my parents had trusted implicitly.”
8. Freida Pinto
“There is no shame in admitting that sexual violence exists. Shame lies in the act of NOT speaking out.”
9. Abhay Deol
“I am baffled by our society’s obsession with sex. I enjoy it, I crave it, I pursue it. I don’t hide the fact. I feel a tinge of shame admitting it.”
10. Sapna Bhavnani
“I was gang-raped when I was 24 and it took me 20 years to voice this incident.”