While frank discussion about women’s sexuality and sexual pleasure was taboo for a long time, there are plenty of people who are fed up with the status quo and ready to speak out. One such person is Rachel Bilson, who has been quite open in recent weeks about wanting to be “f**king manhandled” in the bedroom and admitting that she couldn’t orgasm from sex until she was 38. The latter admission ended up costing her a job.
The actress, best known for “The O.C.,” was appearing on the “Women on Top” podcast with Roxy Manning and Tammin Sursok when she opened up about her troubles with intimacy. She discussed sexual positions, trying to balance sex and life as a working mom, and other things many would consider to be “private.” It was a refreshingly honest conversation that fans loved hearing, but it seems certain execs did not.
Rachel Bilson said on her own “Broad Ideas” podcast this week that saying she couldn’t have an orgasm with a partner for a long time actually cost her a job she had locked down.
“It’s been an interesting week guys. This is the first time it’s ever happened to me in my professional life that I lost a job this week because of things that were said,” she explained. “A job got taken away from me because I was speaking candidly and openly about sex in a humorous way on our friend’s podcast. It was spun and put out as these clickbait headlines.”
Bilson continued: “I basically got a job, that I already had, pulled from me because I was speaking openly about sex. In this day and age, I’m baffled. A single mom, a woman, lost a job because they were being candid and honest and the subject was sex.”
She said that the company in question was on the conservative side, hence the extreme reaction. However, Bilson said as unfair as it was that she was dismissed without discussion, she would say the same again.
“I didn’t even have a chance to defend myself,” she then confessed: “I feel like it’s discrimination. I was floored. I cried,” she admitted. “I haven’t said anything inappropriate,” she vented. “If I could go back, now knowing I lost a job, maybe I would say it differently. But I still wouldn’t not say it.”
