6 Times Celebrities Got Real About Masturbation

The Jane the Virgin actress got real about masturbation in an interview with Bust earlier this year. "In all honesty, I used to feel guilty for masturbating," she said. "Oh my God, this extreme guilt! And that lasted way too long. Or maybe I masturbated too much!"

But Rodriguez has since overcome those feelings of guilt and now has a healthier mindset about solo sex. "It’s okay to look back in retrospect and be like, it wasn't good that I felt bad about touching myself," she said.

After filming the movie Hysteria, the true story of the invention of the vibrator, Gyllenhaal quipped that the best part of the role was unsolicited sex toy gifts. "By the time I finished the movie I'd been sent maybe 15 vibrators by different people in London with vibrator stores," she told reporters at the Toronto International Film Festival premiere in 2011. "It was a pleasant surprise."

The actress is also a proponent of making it less taboo to depict female masturbation onscreen; in an interview with Time Out New York, she revealed that she suggested a masturbation scene for Candy, her character in The Deuce. "I told [show creator David Simon] early on that we get to see so much performative sex as a financial transaction, watching women dressing and coming in the way men want, with little to do with their own desire," she recalled. "I said, 'Maybe you could have a scene where I masturbate?' And he wrote it beyond what I could have imagined."

Gossip Girl's Little J is not a fan of the female masturbation taboo. "I'm a promoter of masturbation," she said in a 2010 interview with the Guardian. "Don't sleep around—learn yourself first! Guys do, but girls don't. And that's why girls have so many bad experiences. But you can know your body, know yourself, know what feels good. You don't have to give yourself away just to have sexual relevance. Because I don't think sex is something people should be afraid of. It's part of human nature, so I don't think it should be so shameful—particularly for girls and young girls."

"As a young woman you don’t learn how to pleasure yourself, you don’t learn what an orgasm should be, you don’t learn that you should have feelings of satisfaction," Woodley said in an interview with Porter last year.

And if the actress is ever looking for a second career path, she might consider becoming a sex-positive author. "I’ve always had a dream of making a book called There’s No Right Way to Masturbate," she said.

When the Beauty and the Beast actress sat down with feminist icon Gloria Steinem for a talk in London last year, she revealed that she's a big fan of the website OMGYES.com. "It's based on research, which is a complete study on female sexuality," she said. "It's a pretty cool website. I wish it had been around longer."

OMGYES aims to "lift the veil on women's sexual pleasure" through videos and instructional forums. "Definitely check it out," Watson said. "It's an expensive subscription, but worth it."

With lyrics like "Gonna love myself, no, I don't need anybody else," many fans were quick to point out that Steinfeld's hit 2015 song "Love Myself" was a clear nod to self-stimulation. Another tip-off: the "Self-Service" T-shirt she wore in the music video.