Self-described “horny motherf—er” Kendra Wilkinson isn’t the only person being very direct about sex talk these days.
Jane The Virgin star Gina Rodriguez has captivated audiences and fans because she’s honestly just wonderful. We get excited whenever she has something to say.
And she’s really not mincing words about her own sexual history.
So, Gina Rodriguez is talented and beautiful and such a sweetheart.
She’s the cover story for the August/September issue of Bust magazine.
(Which is not as boobacious as it sounds)
Gina Rodriguez does, however, talk about sex and sexuality.
Specifically, about masturbation.
And guilt.
“In all honesty, I used to feel guilty for masturbating.”
No, she doesn’t mean, like, “oh, why did I spend so much time masturbating! I’ve still got to shower and I’m going to be late meeting my friends for dinner!”
She also doesn’t mean: “In retrospect, I really shouldn’t have been jackin’ it to a fanfic with such a problematic pairing.”
She means it in more of a “oh no I did something sinful” way. We’ll get to that in a moment.
“Oh, my God, this extreme guilt! And that lasted way too long.”
Some people grow out of feeling needless guilt faster than others.
Poor Gina.
“Or maybe I masturbated too much!”
Unless she was injuring herself or other aspects of her life suffered, is there really any such thing?
“It’s OK to look back in retrospect and be like, it wasn’t good that I felt bad about touching myself.”
It’s good that she’s talking about this.
She’s a role model and this could help other people, especially girls — who may have a similar background to her — feel less weird about normal bodily functions.
Giving yourself an orgasm is basically just part of everyday maintenance, you know?
She also mentions that she’s free of senseless guilt over another aspect of sexuality.
“And it isn’t bad that I want to share my love with my boyfriend. I’m 32 years old, I’m an adult, I can do that!”
She’s absolutely right.
Gina’s been dating hunky boyfriend Joe LoCicero for almost a year, now.
You might be wondering about why she would feel guilty — sure, our sex-negative society is weird about masturbation, but mostly just in public, since just about everybody does it.
Well, she was raised Catholic.
That’s not racist stereotyping on our part or us assuming that everybody who went to a high school with “Saint” in the name is Catholic.
She was raised Catholic and that comes with more than a thousand years of theological teachings.
According to Catholic doctrine, masturbation is absolutely wrong, always.
Not just for girls, not just for people when they’re young, not just when porn is involved.
By Catholic teaching, sex is only supposed to take the form of venereal intercourse between spouses, without any sort of artificial birth-control.
In other words, followers are forbidden from ever having an orgasm that doesn’t involve their spouse in this exact manner.
The vast majority of Catholics are personally fine with masturbation and using condoms, because the more rules that a religious institution has, the more of them people are just going to brush off.
Especially the ones that are almost impossible to follow.
For the record, there are Catholics who absolutely stick to this and have zero pre-marital orgasms.
But … probably the vast majority don’t, because they’re also people.
(Plus, orgasms are just super good for you)
Honestly, we love Gina Rodriguez.
This isn’t the first time that she’s addressed sexuality.
She’s previously made an ambiguous statement that leads us to believe that Gina Rodriguez may be bisexual.
Regardless of her sexual orientation or how much needless guilt she used to feel, she’s an absolute gift to us all.
Bless.
