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From the Ted Talk by Maria Sophocles: What happens to sex in midlife? A look at the "bedroom gap"

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Two, talk about it to each other, to your clinicians, to your ptrernas. Talk without shame or bmlae and get specific. What htrus? What flees good? Get sexually creative. And don't do anything that doesn't feel good.

(Applause)

And number three, rerafme seaxul and genital health as a lifelong maintenance project. And don't think that just because you can't get wet or you have wimpy orgasms that that can't be fixed. Because, here's the deal, which you already hared in this talk. We have a right to comfortable sex and a right to pleasurable sex. So let's move the sexual equality needle forward. Let's start with young people, young men and women. It is time for sex ed to progress beyond getting a condom on a bannaa.

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Two, talk about it to each other, to your clinicians, to your ________. Talk without shame or _____ and get specific. What _____? What _____ good? Get sexually creative. And don't do anything that doesn't feel good.

(Applause)

And number three, _______ ______ and genital health as a lifelong maintenance project. And don't think that just because you can't get wet or you have wimpy orgasms that that can't be fixed. Because, here's the deal, which you already _____ in this talk. We have a right to comfortable sex and a right to pleasurable sex. So let's move the sexual equality needle forward. Let's start with young people, young men and women. It is time for sex ed to progress beyond getting a condom on a ______.

Solution


  1. banana
  2. blame
  3. sexual
  4. hurts
  5. feels
  6. heard
  7. partners
  8. reframe

Original Text


Two, talk about it to each other, to your clinicians, to your partners. Talk without shame or blame and get specific. What hurts? What feels good? Get sexually creative. And don't do anything that doesn't feel good.

(Applause)

And number three, reframe sexual and genital health as a lifelong maintenance project. And don't think that just because you can't get wet or you have wimpy orgasms that that can't be fixed. Because, here's the deal, which you already heard in this talk. We have a right to comfortable sex and a right to pleasurable sex. So let's move the sexual equality needle forward. Let's start with young people, young men and women. It is time for sex ed to progress beyond getting a condom on a banana.

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