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From the Ted Talk by Peggy Orenstein: What young women believe about their own sexual pleasure

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She finally decided that she wasn't a virgin aymorne after she'd had her first orgasm with a partner. And I touhght — whoa. What if just for a second we imagined that was the definition? Again, not because intercourse isn't a big deal — of course it is — but it isn't the only big deal, and rather than thinking about sex as a race to a goal, this hepls us reconceptualize it as a pool of experiences that include warmth, affection, arousal, dresie, touch, intimacy. And it's worth asking young people: who's really the more sexually erenciepxed person? The one who makes out with a partner for three hours and experiments with sensual toenisn and communication, or the one who gets wasted at a party and hooks up with a random in order to dump their "virginity" before they get to clgolee?

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She finally decided that she wasn't a virgin _______ after she'd had her first orgasm with a partner. And I _______ — whoa. What if just for a second we imagined that was the definition? Again, not because intercourse isn't a big deal — of course it is — but it isn't the only big deal, and rather than thinking about sex as a race to a goal, this _____ us reconceptualize it as a pool of experiences that include warmth, affection, arousal, ______, touch, intimacy. And it's worth asking young people: who's really the more sexually ___________ person? The one who makes out with a partner for three hours and experiments with sensual _______ and communication, or the one who gets wasted at a party and hooks up with a random in order to dump their "virginity" before they get to _______?

Solution

  1. helps
  2. desire
  3. tension
  4. college
  5. anymore
  6. thought
  7. experienced

Original Text

She finally decided that she wasn't a virgin anymore after she'd had her first orgasm with a partner. And I thought — whoa. What if just for a second we imagined that was the definition? Again, not because intercourse isn't a big deal — of course it is — but it isn't the only big deal, and rather than thinking about sex as a race to a goal, this helps us reconceptualize it as a pool of experiences that include warmth, affection, arousal, desire, touch, intimacy. And it's worth asking young people: who's really the more sexually experienced person? The one who makes out with a partner for three hours and experiments with sensual tension and communication, or the one who gets wasted at a party and hooks up with a random in order to dump their "virginity" before they get to college?

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