Meghan Markle talks with Sex and The City writer Candace Bushnell on sexuality and the double standard for her penultimate podcast episode
, Meghan Markle has delved into that most pervasive of limitations holding women back: the sexual double standard.
In it she speaks to a woman who played no small role in the expansion of women’s sexual agency in the 90s, author Candace Bushnell, who wrote Sex and the City, as well as Golden Globe award winner actor Micheala Jay Rodiguez, who spoke about existing as a trans woman and embracing her ‘feminine divine’ from a young age.
The fact that it’s taken Meghan up until her ninth episode to explore topics like sexuality and sexual identities could be down to the fact that, as a member of the royal family, these subjects have traditionally been way off limits. But she’s also a prominent feminist and in a successful podcast breaking down stigmas associated with womanhood, she’d be remiss not to include frank discussions like this.
Speaking to Candace, whose original Sex and the City columns features in the New York Observer magazine presented a picture of what single women’s sex lives in the 90s actually looked like, as opposed to the cookie-cutter template they were expected to follow, Meghan said, ‘I don't understand what it is about the stigma surrounding women and their sexuality, the exploration of their sexuality that is so much more vilified than for a man.
And of her writing process, Candace said, ‘I wrote for women's magazines all through the 80s around a lot about relationships, sex, you know, and I really analyzed it. Why do we behave the way we do? And one of my theories
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