"I feel a lot healthier when I'm having sex. Physically. I feel all these jitters when I wake up in the morning. Just energy jitters. I take vitamins, I work out every day. When I'm having sex, I don't have that"
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The specificity matters. She’s not talking about sex as romance or validation; she’s describing it as regulation, a way her nervous system settles. That’s a riskier claim than it looks, especially coming from a public-facing actress whose body has always been part of the job. There’s a quiet pushback here against the cultural reflex to police women’s desire: she frames sex as self-care without the euphemisms, insisting it has measurable effects on her mood and body.
Contextually, this reads like early-2000s-to-2010s celebrity openness, when stars started speaking in the language of therapy and “body positivity,” but still got punished for sounding “too much.” Milano’s intent feels practical rather than provocative: to normalize the idea that libido isn’t a moral issue, and that “health” includes the messy, pleasurable mechanisms that actually calm us down.
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Milano, Alyssa. (2026, January 17). I feel a lot healthier when I'm having sex. Physically. I feel all these jitters when I wake up in the morning. Just energy jitters. I take vitamins, I work out every day. When I'm having sex, I don't have that. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-feel-a-lot-healthier-when-im-having-sex-41054/
Chicago Style
Milano, Alyssa. "I feel a lot healthier when I'm having sex. Physically. I feel all these jitters when I wake up in the morning. Just energy jitters. I take vitamins, I work out every day. When I'm having sex, I don't have that." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-feel-a-lot-healthier-when-im-having-sex-41054/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I feel a lot healthier when I'm having sex. Physically. I feel all these jitters when I wake up in the morning. Just energy jitters. I take vitamins, I work out every day. When I'm having sex, I don't have that." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-feel-a-lot-healthier-when-im-having-sex-41054/. Accessed 8 Feb. 2026.






