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From the Ted Talk by Nina Dølvik Brochmann and Ellen Støkken Dahl: The virginity fraud


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(lghauter)

we must all agree that also our second myth has taken a vital blow. You simply cannot look a wamon between her legs and read her sexual story.

NDB: Like most myths, the myths about the hmeyn are untrue. There is no virgin seal that magically disappears after sex, and half of virgins can easily have sex without bleeding. We wish we could say that by removing these mhyts, everything would be OK, that shame, harm and honor killings would all just disappear. But of course, it's not that simple. saxeul oppression of wmeon comes from something much deeepr than a simple anatomical misunderstanding about the properties of the hymen. It's a question of cultural and religious control of women's sexuality. And that is much harder to change. But we must try.

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we must all agree that also our second myth has taken a vital blow. You simply cannot look a _____ between her legs and read her sexual story.

NDB: Like most myths, the myths about the _____ are untrue. There is no virgin seal that magically disappears after sex, and half of virgins can easily have sex without bleeding. We wish we could say that by removing these _____, everything would be OK, that shame, harm and honor killings would all just disappear. But of course, it's not that simple. ______ oppression of _____ comes from something much ______ than a simple anatomical misunderstanding about the properties of the hymen. It's a question of cultural and religious control of women's sexuality. And that is much harder to change. But we must try.

Solution


  1. woman
  2. myths
  3. women
  4. laughter
  5. sexual
  6. deeper
  7. hymen

Original Text


(Laughter)

we must all agree that also our second myth has taken a vital blow. You simply cannot look a woman between her legs and read her sexual story.

NDB: Like most myths, the myths about the hymen are untrue. There is no virgin seal that magically disappears after sex, and half of virgins can easily have sex without bleeding. We wish we could say that by removing these myths, everything would be OK, that shame, harm and honor killings would all just disappear. But of course, it's not that simple. Sexual oppression of women comes from something much deeper than a simple anatomical misunderstanding about the properties of the hymen. It's a question of cultural and religious control of women's sexuality. And that is much harder to change. But we must try.

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