Gillian Anderson on female pleasure, gay icon status and HuCows
Gillian Anderson speaks exclusively with GAY TIMES about her trailblazing new book Want, which collects the sexual fantasies, desires and kinks from women around the world.
WORDS BY SAM DAMSHENAS “And then, basically, he milks her,” says Gillian Anderson. (Context incoming!) The OBE and Emmy winner is gleefully reciting one of the most “extraordinary” entries in her groundbreaking new book, Want, in which she continues the iconic legacy of Sex Education’s fierce Dr.
Jean Milburn to explore the “complexities” of female sexuality. Inspired by Nancy Friday’s My Secret Garden, the book collects the desires, fantasies and kinks of countless anonymous women around the world, with entries touching upon BDSM, infidelity, shame, voyeurism and – in one case – the insatiable need to receive the “big cocks” of a group of “incredibly attractive biker men” (same!).
What makes Want even more innovative is its inclusivity, with letters from queer women, trans women and non-binary people. After all, this is the woman who blazed a much-needed bi-conic trail with her badass DCI Stella Gibson on The Fall and inspired the “Dana Scully Made Me Gay” movement.
