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5:07
Susan M. Reverby
Ugly History: The US syphilis experiment
5:42
Lucy Cooke
No one can figure out how eels have sex
19:11
Kate Lister
An honest history of an ancient and "nasty" word
11:42
Jen Gunter
Why can't we talk about periods?
12:22
Marah J. Hardt
Are we interrupting the kinky sex lives of fish?
13:34
Molly Webster
The weird history of the "sex chromosomes"
4:11
Emma Bryce
What is HPV and how can you protect yourself from it?
9:39
Juniper Fitzgerald
Why we need to stop stigmatizing mothers who do sex work
14:04
Susannah Temko
What it means to be intersex
9:57
Emily Nagoski
How couples can sustain a strong sexual connection for a lifetime
8:16
Danielle N. Lee
How hip-hop helps us understand science
14:01
Emily Quinn
The way we think about biological sex is wrong
15:12
Emily F. Rothman
How porn changes the way teens think about sex
15:16
Emily Nagoski
The truth about unwanted arousal
6:23
John Amory
How a male contraceptive pill could work
11:37
Tiffany Kagure Mugo and Siphumeze Khundayi
How to have a healthier, positive relationship to sex
7:19
Sue Jaye Johnson
What we don't teach kids about sex
11:41
Nina Dølvik Brochmann and Ellen Støkken Dahl
The virginity fraud
5:15
Menno Schilthuizen
The evolution of animal genitalia
4:35
Kate Slabosky
The three different ways mammals give birth
15:58
Alexis Jones
Redefining manhood—one locker room talk at a time
19:00
Jimena Ledgard
Romper el silencio sobre la violencia sexual
13:10
Sarah Barmak
Women's sexuality isn't complicated
11:20
Sarah Barmak
The uncomplicated truth about women's sexuality
17:00
Peggy Orenstein
What young women believe about their own sexual pleasure
16:35
Pere Estupinyà
The science of sex
14:56
Sofia Jawed-Wessel
The lies we tell pregnant women
14:25
Amy Adele Hasinoff
How to practice safe sexting
16:26
Amy Adele Hasinoff
What can sexting teach us about consent?
16:46
Ella Dawson
Why I tell people I have herpes
18:11
Terri Conley
We need to rethink casual sex
17:50
Juno Mac
The laws that sex workers really want
17:09
Emily Nagoski
The keys to a happier, healthier sex life
4:23
Thea Holcomb
How peer educators can transform sex education
11:58
Marlene Zuk
What we learn from insects' sex lives
25:28
Sarah Jones
One woman, five characters, and a sex lesson from the future
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