Shailene Woodley Describes Herself as a 'Very Sexual Person,' Says Former Partner 'Helped Me Discover Myself'

"I always call it a dance — it's a dance, we're exchanging energy," Shailene Woodley said of sex

Shailene Woodley often likens sex to dancing!

While promoting her new Starz series, Three Women, and her charity, All It Takes, on the Tuesday, Sept. 24th episode of the SHE MD podcast, Woodley, 32, described herself as "a very sexual person" during a larger conversation revolving around women's health matters and societal expectations around sex with co-hosts Dr. Thais Aliabadi and Mary Alice Haney.

"I always have been. I was very lucky in my life as a young person, discovering myself and my body, to have a partner at the time who loved to dance," she said. "I always call it a dance — it's a dance, we're exchanging energy. Sometimes the dance is like a really fast tango, and sometimes the dance is a really slow groove, and sometimes it's loud and sometimes really soft."

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The actress recalled that she "had somebody that helped me discover myself because there was a sense of comfortability together" during a relationship in her adolescence, though she took care not to name the former partner in question.

"I think that I probably did the same for him," she added.

Woodley has largely kept her own love life private since she split from ex-fiancé Aaron Rodgers in February 2022. Prior to that relationship, she was romantically linked to rugby player Ben Volavola, whom she reportedly met in Fiji while she was filming the movie Adrift. Woodley later revealed that she and Volavola had split in an April 2020 interview with the The New York Times.

While speaking further about people's relationships with sex on the podcast, Woodley likened porn to "junk food."

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"This is what we're being sold when all of these other things are possible with my body because I'm like a magic machine?" she said. "Pleasure is so important and we just rip each other off of it because I think we don't necessarily even know what's possible, and that's my big beef with porn. You're selling everybody McDonald's when you could have, like, woah — much better quality!"

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New episodes of Three Women debut Friday on Starz. Woodley also has a new movie, Killer Heat, now streaming on Prime Video.

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