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From the Ted Talk by Tiffany Kagure Mugo and Siphumeze Khundayi: How to have a healthier, positive relationship to sex

Unscramble the Blue Letters


SK: Think about it. You can quite elaisy go to someone and say, "My elbow hurts." But try going to someone and saying, "Excuse me, my vagina has a strange buzzing feeling, do you know where I can find the buzzing-vagina ointment?" And see how well that goes down.

(lhtaegur)

TKM: Does not go down well. I once challenged friends to simply go into supermarkets and say to strangers, "Thighs." No one did it, despite the fact that they could have been talking about chicken or turkey.

(Laughter)

SK: So a number of cultural and historical notions have brrwoeud so deeply within us, we don't even notice that it's strange to freak out when somebody says "nipple" as opposed to "left knee." We rufese to engage with sex properly. And the first step is amnitdtig that it exists outside of trying to sell us products like bottled wetar or coffee. The unrealistic docipnites in movies or that one thing that you saw on the internet "by mistake."

Open Cloze


SK: Think about it. You can quite ______ go to someone and say, "My elbow hurts." But try going to someone and saying, "Excuse me, my vagina has a strange buzzing feeling, do you know where I can find the buzzing-vagina ointment?" And see how well that goes down.

(________)

TKM: Does not go down well. I once challenged friends to simply go into supermarkets and say to strangers, "Thighs." No one did it, despite the fact that they could have been talking about chicken or turkey.

(Laughter)

SK: So a number of cultural and historical notions have ________ so deeply within us, we don't even notice that it's strange to freak out when somebody says "nipple" as opposed to "left knee." We ______ to engage with sex properly. And the first step is _________ that it exists outside of trying to sell us products like bottled _____ or coffee. The unrealistic __________ in movies or that one thing that you saw on the internet "by mistake."

Solution


  1. depictions
  2. easily
  3. refuse
  4. laughter
  5. burrowed
  6. admitting
  7. water

Original Text


SK: Think about it. You can quite easily go to someone and say, "My elbow hurts." But try going to someone and saying, "Excuse me, my vagina has a strange buzzing feeling, do you know where I can find the buzzing-vagina ointment?" And see how well that goes down.

(Laughter)

TKM: Does not go down well. I once challenged friends to simply go into supermarkets and say to strangers, "Thighs." No one did it, despite the fact that they could have been talking about chicken or turkey.

(Laughter)

SK: So a number of cultural and historical notions have burrowed so deeply within us, we don't even notice that it's strange to freak out when somebody says "nipple" as opposed to "left knee." We refuse to engage with sex properly. And the first step is admitting that it exists outside of trying to sell us products like bottled water or coffee. The unrealistic depictions in movies or that one thing that you saw on the internet "by mistake."

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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human beings 2
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Important Words


  1. admitting
  2. bottled
  3. burrowed
  4. buzzing
  5. challenged
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  7. coffee
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  10. depictions
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  22. internet
  23. knee
  24. laughter
  25. mistake
  26. movies
  27. notice
  28. notions
  29. number
  30. ointment
  31. opposed
  32. products
  33. properly
  34. refuse
  35. sell
  36. sex
  37. simply
  38. step
  39. strange
  40. strangers
  41. supermarkets
  42. talking
  43. turkey
  44. unrealistic
  45. vagina
  46. water