Joe McConnell
After being criticized for promoting a sex toy company on social media, Rumer has addressed her critics.
“What I found really interesting, what I wanted to point out, is that a lot of the comments I was seeing were, ‘Oh my god, you’re a mom,’” she said in an August Instagram Stories video. “‘Don’t show intimate moments like that. First you’re breastfeeding, and now this.’”
“We’re in a culture where it’s so frowned upon to feed our children in public, or to talk about female pleasure, to talk about female sexuality,” she added. “Just the idea of posting something or having some kind of casual, off-the-cuff conversation about it, the reaction is visceral from people.”
Rumer instead stressed the importance of these conversations in “being able to remove some of the shame that surrounds them.”
“As someone who now has a daughter, the idea of putting any kind of shame or having her discover herself sexually, putting any taboo around that, I think is despicable,” she shared. “I want Lou to be able to love her body, to be able to share it or not share it with whoever she wants.”
