Wood told said she would have liked to watch a television show like Sex Education when she was younger, as she was “taught that sex was for making babies and that was basically it”. “So, our pleasure was this enigmatic thing that didn’t really exist and it was always portrayed like, in American Pie, anyone who enjoyed sex was kind of the crazy nympho who’s a bit unhinged,” the 24-year-old said. “So you think: ‘Oh, am I the crazy nympho that’s a bit unhinged because I’m definitely horny right now?” Watch more Star of Netflix’s Sex Education has some sex advice for young women Wood explained she and her classmates would not speak about masturbation with one another. “And then you go into school and you pretend that you’ve never experienced masturbation. Girls pretended like they didn’t even know what it was,” she stated. The actor added that while she would have “really frank conversations” about other topics with her friends, the subject of masturbation was “a complete taboo”.