Lena Dunham Covers Vogue, Defends Depiction Of Sexuality On Girls

Somewhere Kanye West is seething!

Lena Dunham covers the February 2014 issue of Vogue, and the Girls creator chats about her hit show, not being the cool kid and of course, sex!

In defense of the nudity on Girls, Lena says:

“There was a sense that I and many women I knew had been led astray by Hollywood and television depictions of sexuality. Seeing somebody who looks like you having sex on television is a less comfortable experience than seeing somebody who looks like nobody you’ve ever met. Critics said, ‘That guy wouldn’t date that girl!’ It’s like, ‘Have you been out on the street lately?’ Everyone dates everyone, for lots of reasons we can’t understand. Sexuality isn’t a perfect puzzle, like, ‘He has a nice nose and she has a nice nose! She’s got great breasts and he’s got great calves! And so they’re going to live happily ever after in a house that was purchased with their modeling money!’ It’s a complicated thing. I want people ultimately, even if they’re disturbed by certain moments, to feel bolstered and normalized by the sex that’s on the show.”

While we loooooooove Girls, we were scratching our heads last season when Hannah hooked up with Patrick Wilson's smokin' hot character ... for an entire weekend! Not like it could NEVER happen, but from a plausibility standpoint, it did seem a little far-fetched...

While she frequently bares her breasts on the series, Dunham insists that she's not trying to share every aspect of her life with the world. “No one would describe me as a private person, but I actually really am," she says. "It’s important for me to have a lot of time alone, and to have a lot of time in my house by myself. My entire life sort of takes place between me and my dog, my books, and my boyfriend, and my private world. To me, privacy isn’t necessarily equated with secret-keeping. What’s private is my relationship with myself.”

So what was she like as a kid? “I thought of myself as relatively unpopular," she says. "It wasn’t anybody’s fault -- I didn’t go to high school with mean kids -- but I didn’t feel part of it ... I didn’t really start to feel like I had friends in a real way until I graduated from college and became engaged with the people I’d be engaged with professionally.”