Visit to get our entire library of TED Talks, transcripts, translations, personalized talk recommendations and more. Mandatory lockdowns, quarantines and shelter-in-place orders meant to contain COVID-19 have created a shadow pandemic of domestic abuse, says […]
Visit to get our entire library of TED Talks, transcripts, translations, personalized talk recommendations and more. Sexual assault is never the victim's fault, says advocate Kristin Jones. In this courageous talk, she tells her story […]
Visit to get our entire library of TED Talks, transcripts, translations, personalized Talk recommendations and more. Human rights protector Rabiaa El Garani shares the challenging, heartbreaking story of sexual violence committed against Yazidi women and […]
Visit to get our entire library of TED Talks, transcripts, translations, personalized Talk recommendations and more. Social entrepreneur Julie Cordua works on a problem that isn't easy to talk about: the sexual abuse of children […]
"The free, online, mainstream pornography that teenagers are most likely to see is a completely terrible form of sex education," says public health researcher Emily F. Rothman. She shares how her mission to end dating […]
In 2006, Tarana Burke was consumed by a desire to do something about the sexual violence she saw in her community. She took out a piece of paper, wrote "Me Too" across the top and […]
In 2009, 11,341 untested rape kits — some dating back to the 1980s — were found in an abandoned warehouse once used by the Detroit police to store evidence. When this scandal was uncovered, prosecutor […]
Sex buying doesn't just happen late at night on street corners in the shady part of town — it also happens online, in the middle of the workday, using company equipment and resources. With this […]
Sex educator Emily Nagoski breaks down one of the most dangerous myths about sex and introduces us to the science behind arousal nonconcordance: when there's a disconnect between physical response and the experience of pleasure […]
To make accountability the norm after gender violence in the United States, we need to change tactics, says victims' rights attorney and TED Fellow Laura L. Dunn. Instead of going institution by institution, fighting for […]
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