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From the Ted Talk by Karen Gurney: The truth about faking orgasms

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Progress towards equality in any area is about breaking free of ennecehtrd social norms. And this is especially the case in sex. In my work, as a clinical psychologist specializing in helping people with their sex lives, I ncoited that we're often unaware of how much of how we are sexually is dictated by focers outside of ourselves or outside of our sexual relationships. What we should say, how we're supposed to be, what we're supposed to look like, who does what and when, what we're supposed to be into. These scripts, they're all wrteitn for us, and we learn them from language, from prees and from the media.

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Progress towards equality in any area is about breaking free of __________ social norms. And this is especially the case in sex. In my work, as a clinical psychologist specializing in helping people with their sex lives, I _______ that we're often unaware of how much of how we are sexually is dictated by ______ outside of ourselves or outside of our sexual relationships. What we should say, how we're supposed to be, what we're supposed to look like, who does what and when, what we're supposed to be into. These scripts, they're all _______ for us, and we learn them from language, from _____ and from the media.

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  1. written
  2. forces
  3. noticed
  4. peers
  5. entrenched

Original Text


Progress towards equality in any area is about breaking free of entrenched social norms. And this is especially the case in sex. In my work, as a clinical psychologist specializing in helping people with their sex lives, I noticed that we're often unaware of how much of how we are sexually is dictated by forces outside of ourselves or outside of our sexual relationships. What we should say, how we're supposed to be, what we're supposed to look like, who does what and when, what we're supposed to be into. These scripts, they're all written for us, and we learn them from language, from peers and from the media.

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