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Elliot Page has graphically detailed his failed attempts to have sex with a man aged 16 - as he battled with his sexuality years before coming out as gay.
The Oscar-nominated star, 36, who was once known as Ellen Page and came out as transgender in 2020, revealed he once dated a classmate called Kenneth and repeatedly attempted to lose his virginity to him - to no avail.
Writing in his new memoir Pageboy, Page said the pair - who met in grade 10 at Queen Elizabeth High School in Halifax, Nova Scotia - would 'fool around upstairs' and engage in 'dry humping' - which did not arouse Page.
He wrote: 'Kenneth was sweet, sensitive and cute. A unique face with prominent cheekbones and electric eyes, his hair dark brown and floppy.
'We'd fool around upstairs. I didn't really like it but I didn't mind it either
Very candid: Elliot Page has graphically detailed his failed attempts to have sex with a man aged 16 - as he battled with his sexuality years before coming out as gay (pictured 2022)
Teen years: The Oscar-nominated star, 36, who was once known as Ellen Page and came out as transgender in 2020 , revealed he once dated a classmate called Kenneth and repeatedly attempted to lose his virginity to him - to no avail (pictured 2004)
'The kissing, meh. The dry humping, alright. I would pretend to orgasm. Not that Kenneth wasn't or wouldn't be fantastic in bed. I am certain he would be a selfless and generous lover.'
Going into further explicit detail, Page said when they tried to have sex, Kenneth was unable to enter him, adding: 'That whole "wet" thing was not happening.
'We'd try and then stop, try and then stop, try and then stop, and then we stopped trying. I was lucky it was with someone as lovely as him, it could have ended a different way.'
The star added that due to suffering a tear in his private parts during a rollerblade accident, he had this 'idea that something had happened to my vagina - causing my body to refuse entry.
'Everyone was talking about "doing it" and "hooking up" and "virginity"... and I didn't get it. Was everyone also pretending?
'I avoided sex with guys and suppressed my real, unrequited crushes. My brain could not comprehend that I simply wasn't interested, that I just didn't want to go through with it, which would be a completely appropriate feeling and response.'
Page would come out as a lesbian in 2014 - and would transition from female to male six years later.
Elsewhere in the book Page revealed he developed stress-induced shingles on the set of Inception in 2010 after feeling 'out of place in a cast full of cis men.'
Sexuality battle: Writing in his new memoir Pageboy, Page said the pair - who met in grade 10 at Queen Elizabeth High School in Halifax, Nova Scotia - would 'fool around upstairs' and engage in 'dry humping' - which did not arouse Page (pictured 2006)
He wrote: 'Shingles communicated the stress my body felt. It popped out of my spine while filming Inception when I was twenty-two.
'Despite everyone being delightful to work with, I felt out of place. In a cast full of cis men, I did not understand the role I found myself in.
Elliot said that early on in filming he would joke that he'd be 'recast with Keira Knightley.'
This comes after Page claimed he had sex with Juno co-star Olivia Thirlby 'all the time' while they filmed the hit 2007 movie - just days after revealing he had a secret romance with Kate Mara.
The star said he was instantly attracted to Thirlby, now 36, who played Juno's best friend Leah in the film, as he recounted their fling in Pageboy.
He said: 'I was taken aback the moment I saw Olivia Thirlby. She seemed so much older, capable, and centered.
'Sexually open, far removed from where I was at the time. But the chemistry was palpable, it pulled me in.'
Page - who played pregnant teen Juno MacGuff in the film - recounted how they started 'sucking face' in a hotel room after Thirlby confessed she was 'really attracted' to him - to which Page reciprocated her feelings.
Fling: This comes after Page claimed he had sex with Juno co-star Olivia Thirlby 'all the time' while they filmed the hit 2007 movie - just days after revealing he had a secret romance with Kate Mara (pictured)
He wrote: 'It was on. I had an all-encompassing desire for her, she made me want in a way that was new, hopeful.'
He added it was one of the first times someone would make him orgasm.
Page said he and Thirlby began having sex 'all the time', writing: 'Her hotel room, in our trailers at work, once in a tiny, private room in a restaurant … We thought we were being subtle. Being intimate with Olivia helped my shame dissipate. I didn’t see a glint of it in her eyes and I wanted that — done feeling wretched about who I am.'
Around the time Page and Thirlby filmed Juno, the pair were slated to star as the title characters in Jack & Diane - playing two young women who fall in love -but both dropped out before production, and the
