The actor Gillian Anderson (“The X-Files,” “The Fall,” “Sex Education”) has become an advocate for sexual openness, whether through her on-screen personas, launching a libido-boosting soda brand, attending the Golden Globes in a vulva-embroidered dress or through her new book, “Want: Sexual Fantasies by Anonymous (https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/want-97...) ,” which showcases the secret fantasies of anonymous women, curated by Ms. Anderson herself.


Today, Ms. Anderson reads and discusses the Modern Love essay “On Tinder, Off Sex (https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/18/st...) ,” which follows a woman who becomes unintentionally celibate after a painful breakup. The author fantasizes about past and potential loves but can’t seem to break out of what her doctor has called “secondary abstinence.” Ms. Anderson tells us about a time she felt similarly, and how a good yoga practice snapped her out of it.


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