Emma Watson caused quite a stir last year when she asserted that she very much enjoyed being single, and referred to herself as being "self-partnered". Now, the erstwhile Harry Potter star has opened up about her sexual preferences in an interview she conducted for Teen Vogue with the author Valerie Hudson.
Speaking about her "fascination" with kink culture, she said: "I’ve also kind of become slightly fascinated by kink culture because they are the best communicators ever," adding that the community "know all about consent".
"They smash that stuff because they really have to get it — but we could all use those models; they’re actually really helpful models," she continued.
The 29-year-old also addressed that controversial Vogue magazine interview, stating:
"I did an interview with Vogue magazine a couple of months ago, and I talked about how, in the run-up to my 30s, [I felt] this incredible, sudden anxiety and pressure that I had to be married or have a baby or [be] moving into a house. And there was no word for this kind of subliminal messaging and anxiety and pressure that I felt building up but couldn’t really name, so I used the word self-partnered."
"For me it wasn’t so much about coining a word; it was more that I needed to create a definition for something that I didn’t feel there was language for. And it was interesting because it really riled some people up! It was less for me about the word but more about what it meant — just this idea that we need to reclaim language and space in order to express ourselves, because sometimes it’s really not there."
Watch an interview with Emma Watson and Rupert Grint in 2001:
In her conversation with the Sex and World Peace author, Watson also touched on the importance of open communication in relationships, asserting that "relationships that don’t necessarily follow traditional models require more communication and consent."
She said that in her personal experience, many of the "healthiest relationships" she had seen were "between same-sex couples because, I think, they have to sit down and agree [on] things”.
