Girls creator Lena Dunham has always been pretty honest when it comes to her personal life and speaking frankly to a fan during a recent YouTube chat the actress admitted she didn't always enjoy sex and it wasn't until she was 25 and met current boyfriend Jack Antonoff, that things started falling into place.
She's been praised for her honest account of life for girls in their twenties, with the quirky hit Girls and it seems Lena takes inspiration for the show from her own life. Admitting she's had her own struggle with sex, she said: "I was so worried about whether other people were enjoying sex with me that it never would have occurred to me that it was an act I was supposed to receive any pleasure from,"
Claiming it was all about meeting the right partner, Lena went on: "Before my current boyfriend (Fun guitarist Jack Antonoff), who's a lovely, lovely person, I had a train of the most disastrous, despicable, van-dwelling monsters in my bed."
"Then what I realised was having good sex takes two people who want to make each other feel good. 'There isn't a person who's 'good at sex' because it's an alchemy, it's a thing that happens between two people."
Lena Dunham talks frankly about sex (SplashNews)
"You have to love yourself to love someone who's going to love you. Let's take a moment to think about whether that made sense. An attraction to nice people is truly something that comes when you have an attraction to yourself," she went on.
"When you feel a lot of negativity towards yourself, you're almost sexually attracted to people who are going to reflect that back at you. When you learn to love and appreciate those qualities that you've tried so hard to suppress, suddenly that behaviour's just not going to be charming to you anymore."
Let's face it, it's hardly an earth shattering confession, how many people out there have put their partners needs ahead of their own in the bedroom? We bet it's not just girls either, who might agree with Lena!
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