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From the Ted Talk by Sarah Barmak: The uncomplicated truth about women's sexuality

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All this goes dolube for LGBTQI women's sexuality, which has been hated and erased in specific ways.

Ignorance about the female body goes back centuries. It goes back to the beginning of mdoren medicine. Cast your mind back to the 16th century, a time of scientific revolution in Europe. Men of ideas were challenging old dogmas. They were building telescopes to gaze up at the stars. We were making progress ... sometimes. You see, the fathers of anatomy — and I say "fathers" because, let's face it, they were all dudes — were poking about between women's legs and trying to cifslasy what they saw. They weren't quite sure what to do with the clitoris. It didn't appear to have anything to do with mankig babies. The leading amnasiott at the time dearceld that it was probably some kind of abnormal grotwh —

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All this goes ______ for LGBTQI women's sexuality, which has been hated and erased in specific ways.

Ignorance about the female body goes back centuries. It goes back to the beginning of ______ medicine. Cast your mind back to the 16th century, a time of scientific revolution in Europe. Men of ideas were challenging old dogmas. They were building telescopes to gaze up at the stars. We were making progress ... sometimes. You see, the fathers of anatomy — and I say "fathers" because, let's face it, they were all dudes — were poking about between women's legs and trying to ________ what they saw. They weren't quite sure what to do with the clitoris. It didn't appear to have anything to do with ______ babies. The leading _________ at the time ________ that it was probably some kind of abnormal ______ —

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  1. classify
  2. anatomist
  3. growth
  4. modern
  5. double
  6. declared
  7. making

Original Text


(Laughter)

All this goes double for LGBTQI women's sexuality, which has been hated and erased in specific ways.

Ignorance about the female body goes back centuries. It goes back to the beginning of modern medicine. Cast your mind back to the 16th century, a time of scientific revolution in Europe. Men of ideas were challenging old dogmas. They were building telescopes to gaze up at the stars. We were making progress ... sometimes. You see, the fathers of anatomy — and I say "fathers" because, let's face it, they were all dudes — were poking about between women's legs and trying to classify what they saw. They weren't quite sure what to do with the clitoris. It didn't appear to have anything to do with making babies. The leading anatomist at the time declared that it was probably some kind of abnormal growth —

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