'Women weren't allowed to talk about their sexual desires. It’s not demure, and it’s not how women were supposed to be seen as having that desire in them. It was really frowned upon for women to express that. I think that, only recently, a lot of women are realising that they can talk about sex. People concentrate on the fact that it’s titillating because a woman’s made work on desire. And it shouldn’t be that. The more that women deal with the subject matter, I think will take away the stigma. Because we’re all humans, we’ve all got the same desires, it shouldn’t be any different for a woman to talk about this subject than a man.'
Helen Beard 2021