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Love Island star Yewande Biala has candidly revealed she thought female orgasms were a myth - as she never experienced one.
The reality star said her Nigerian Catholic upbringing played a big part on her views of sex which she says was “never, ever spoken about."
The scientist, who has a first-class honours degree in biotechnology and a masters in pharmaceutical quality assurance, found fame as one of the contestants on ITV2 dating show Love Island in 2019 where she lasted 22 days after being coupled up with Michael Griffiths and Danny Williams. Now, the 28-year-old has turned her attention to documentary-making, taking from her own experience as part of ground breaking Channel 4 special focusing on discovering the female orgasm.
Yewande admitted she used to be “so uncomfortable” talking about sex, and was nervous about the documentary, called Secrets Of The Female Orgasm, because she initially turned it down when asked by producers in 2021. “When they asked again later, I had matured, but still had so much of my journey to do,” she told OK! and confessed she was “excited” for the one-off programme to air “because it’s an important topic that needs to be on TV.”
Yewande appeared on Love Island back in 2019 (ITV)
The scientist is now exploring facts and fiction surrounding the female orgasm (GC Images)It’s estimated one in eight women have never had an orgasm, and in the documentary, Yewande speaks to scientists, therapists and other women to find out about the female orgasm, and bravely shared her journey to have an orgasm for the first time. “I genuinely believed for years that female orgasms were this myth,” she laughed, adding that when she was a teenager, she thought “everyone’s just making this up.”
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Her interest in the female orgasm began when she appeared on a podcast, and was asked if she’d ever “faked an orgasm”, leading her to confess she’d never even had a real one. Yewande said it was her strict Catholic upbringing that has had a big effect on her solo sex life, and said “sex was not spoken about at all” as she was growing up, with many girls “slut-shamed” for having sex, and told they were “dirty” if they masturbated. “It was so bad,” she sadly recalled.
Yewande bravely experiences her own orgasm in the documentary (Instagram)Her Nigerian upbringing also played a part, as sex was “never, ever spoken about”, and even when it was, it was in relation to getting pregnant or being married. “It was quite an uncomfortable situation to be in,” Yewande said. In the documentary, she speaks to her mum about sex, but the conversation doesn’t go the way she planned, and admitted: “It wasn’t the breakthrough that I needed.” But she did reveal that her mum is “actually looking forward to watching the show.”
Yewande’s journey to experience her first orgasm was something she found daunting, and she admitted that being so red-faced around the idea of sex and female pleasure for so long made it really difficult. “For someone who’s grown up in a conservative household and has never spoken about sex, those things were so uncomfortable,” she shared.
Watch Secrets Of The Female Orgasm, Thursday, Channel 4, 10pm