One of the portraits of Caitlin Stasey, posted on her website
Herself.com.
Photo: Jennifer Toole
Caitlin Stasey has revealed that discovering she was a lesbian while at a Catholic girls school led her to self-harm.
The outspoken actress
told
Birdee
magazine
she repressed her sexuality as a teenager because, in her community, being gay was "a condemnable offence".
"It's such a f**king dark and terrible thing to admit, but throughout high school I cut myself - I had a lovely upbringing, but I was mortified by the fact that I had these feelings and that I felt gay, and I was constantly being told it was wrong."
The cover of Birdee
Photo: Birdee Magazine
The 24-year-old from Melbourne says the struggle made her to turn her back on religion.
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"I became incredibly hateful of religion and am now resolute that it is one of the greatest tragedies to befall mankind."
Stasey also said she would love to run a "totally ethical, all-inclusive strip club for disabled and trans women" as well as an "ethical pornography production company run by women".
"Those are two things I'd love to do," she said.
Earlier this year, Stasey launched her own feminist website
Herself.com, which features a series of nude photos and frank interviews about women's relationships with their bodies and sexualities.
She
told
Daily Life
she wanted to "demystify the female form".
"We consider a woman's sexuality so linked to her physicality that for a woman to appear naked publicly is automatically an act of sex and not for herself," she said. "There's also a very specific construct of woman we are all used to seeing, and while those women are no less women, I was so desperate to see different faces, different bodies."
In
her own profile on the website
she says she is in a loving relationship with a man but identifies predominantly as a lesbian.
"I've known I was mostly gay ever since I can remember," she said. "I know it troubles many people for me to refer to myself as a lesbian considering I have a male partner."
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