The film which debuted at Sundance this year is set to wring out the “inborn judgment and shame around female desire” out of a stigmatized culture, according to Dunham, as reported by IndieWire.

Dunham spoke about Sharp Stick’s themes of the sexuality of women in film saying, “It’s a joke as old as celluloid that the minute we spot a sexually active girl in a horror movie, we know she’s going to die in a blood death.”

Dunham continued, “She’s let someone touch her below the neck, and so she’s marked for murder. But there’s a more subtle crime we commit toward women on camera, where female characters who dare to take a journey sexually may not get full-on murdered, but they do endure another kind of torture — one more exquisite and subtle.”