“When I was young and I did the soap opera and I had my first love scene, nobody talked to me about anything that was going to happen except the motions. I know we weren’t really having sex, but we were really kissing and rubbing, and I was only 17 at the time,” Ward says. “So, I felt like I didn’t know exactly what I was doing on screen, but in porn, you talk about everything ahead of time.”
The celebration of sexuality in porn has allowed Ward to break free of the stigma attached to female sexuality, which she says is the “final frontier” of “liberation for women.”
“If we are totally sexually liberated, doing what we want, not caring about judgment from men on the outside or higher-ups, then we’re free,” Ward says.
Despite starring in a G-rated sitcom, Ward says she felt “there were always sexual innuendos” to her storyline on “Boy Meets World,” such as a food fight scene with co-star Will Friedle in which Rachel “had (her) feet all over his face and chest, and we were wrestling around in marinara.”
And while Ward didn’t mind this, she says she took issue with the “dismissive” treatment of her character by Cory (Ben Savage) and Shawn (Rider Strong) on the show, including a scene in which the boys leak private photos of Rachel.
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