THE FACTS
The Avatar star touched on America needing to be more open about sexuality in her cover story with Essence magazine.

THE SPIN
In a Q&A themed on “From A to Zoe,” Zoe Saldana shared her thoughts on a number of topics in the April edition of Essence.

Here’s a sample of some what she discussed:

S is for sex: “Love it, love it, love it—can’t live without it!” Saldana exults. “I love sex. I love skin. I don’t believe the body is something to hide. I think in American society we’re messing up our kids by taking away the education on and awareness of our sexuality and replacing it with violence, guns and video games—and we’re breeding little criminals.”

B is for boyfriend: When it comes to intimate relationships, Saldana, who currently lives with her longtime boyfriend, Keith Britton, likes to be knocked off her feet. “I’m more of a punch-drunk-love kind of girl,” she admits. “I mean punch as in that pow, that jolt, that kick in the gut. I like things that are severe, passionate and extreme.”

Zoe also revealed that she doesn’t rule out ever doing a graphic sex scene in her movies.

She told Essence: “If you asked a painter, ‘Are you going to paint in red?’ the answer would be, ‘I’m going to paint paintings and if one day there is red in it, there’s red in it.’ ”

Well, isn’t she a horny one.

Now you know I have to ask about her “breeding little criminals” comment. Although this country likes to oversexualize various forms of imagery, more times than not we can never have frank discussions about sexuality – especially in the black community.

Is Zoe on to something with her comments or does she need to run that comment past a cold shower?

I’d love to hear from you all.

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