The hymen is still the most misunderstood part of the female body. Nina Dølvik Brochmann and Ellen Støkken Dahl share their mission to empower young people through better sex education, debunking the popular (and harmful) myths we're told about female virginity and the hymen.
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Awesome…!
It ws already uploaded by TED years ago…. Why again?
Because you should watch it again to learn something useful
Sylvain MF That’s not true, you can easily find all of TED’s older videos by using the search filter.
@abyssinia Empire but then you’d first have to figure out on what to search. I wouldn’t search virgin(ity) on youtube….
Then again if this was about views then I think pornhub gets more searchhits on virgin so maybe they should post this there?
Maybe because the message hasn’t gotten through and there are still honor killings over this nonsense?
Mayb Bcoz it International Women’s Day …..
perfect =))
Good job
It was amazing
What, having your hymen smashed to pieces that night in the back of Tyrone’s ’68 Camaro?
#LOL
I was gonna make a comment on “losing her virginity”, The Fuzz… Although, you seemed kinda harsh.
Any man that cares about such a ridiculous issue does not deserve the woman that he’s with.
When I was going to school in California I met a Syrian who had graduated from Mississippi State as an engineer and was now learning aircraft mechanics with at a school full of middle eastern students.
He told me, this is 1963 that the custom where he was from in Syria was for the father of the bride to stand outside the wedding bedroom waiting for the soiled cloth, proof of his daughters virginity.
And of course if the cloth was not soiled horrible things could happen to the young woman.
He thought that all Christian girls were whores and as much as I tried reasoning with him it was to no avail.
Well, obviously my friend was living in the Middle Ages and in spite of his education as an engineer he knew nothing about woman and much less about Christian girls.
I am now 75 years old married for the second time with a woman 25 years my junior, also on her second marriage and I must say that the last thing that I would have wanted in my sexual life would have been a Virgin.
I always liked mature and experienced women, since after all they were the ones who educated me in so many ways.
Non, ye ne regrette rien!
Simp
The Fuzz lol. How dense are you? Do you live in the middle ages? As they just explained, there is no way to prove virginity anyway. Best proof for no STDs is by getting tested, because you can be born with an STD, in case you didn’t know. If you want a child that is genetically yours, treat a woman with enough respect that she wants to carry out your spawn and don’t assume what others want.
The Fuzz The idea that males have some “right” to make sure their kid is really theirs is against nature.
If males were supposed to know for sure they are the father of the kids they are raising they would be the ones to gestate them. Accept that you are nothing more than a sperm donor and stop thinking you have a right to control women, worthless POS.
+The Fuzz
A lot of men adopt or raise other children as their own. As a tribal species, that’s totally natural.
Theodoяe Kяap i think he meant he was married for 25 years. Not to a 25 yr old lady
There are so many myths and lies created to control women’s sexuality and women in general. Patriarchal religions are responsible for most of them.
Is there anything more ridiculous and far from the truth than the idea of a male (god) creating life, for example? All religions subvert reality and the vast majority of the religions we know today were created with the objective of controlling women.
Not true, per se. Religions often depict their God’s as men mainly because many langauges have feminine and masculine words.
So how do you explain the countless “This is why women are bad” stories religions have?
You are trying too hard, Flower Power… Take it a little bit easier there.
Héctor BuBa I’m not saying anything that is not true. Feel free to prove me wrong.
I thought we were past these myths by now. Apparently not so. Still a great video. Nice one!
This is feminism done right. 🙂
says who? you?
lol
Feminism is never done right kek
good job gals
and there goes the myth of the virgin mary
bless this comment
amen
The Virgin Mary can’t be virgin anymore after she gave birth since it breaks from the other side?
Other than that, but that too
This will outrage countless dogmatic radical fundamentalists throughout the world. Like in places where rape is virtually non existent because it requires 3 or more witnesses, & where men are allowed to mutilate their wives with a pair of pliers because its just personal property etc. ALL negativeness stems from fear, belief & expectation, & pretty much in that order.
Realcygnus You don’t know what you’re talking about. You can’t just expect to lie and then not held accountable. What you said about certain places needing witnesses for rape is inaccurate and false. The prosecution for rape is different from that of adultery, adultery needs four witnesses while rape needs no witnesses. You seem to not know the difference between the two. Here is a fatwa regarding this issue:
Ibn ‘Abd al-Barr (may Allaah have mercy on him) said:
“The scholars are unanimously agreed that the rapist is to be subjected to the hadd punishment if there is clear evidence against him that he deserves the hadd punishment, or if he admits to that. Otherwise, he is to be punished (i.e., if there is no proof that the hadd punishment for adultery may be carried out against him because he does not confess, and there are not four witnesses, then the judge may punish him and stipulate a punishment that will deter him and others like him). There is no punishment for the woman if it is true that he forced her and overpowered her, which may be proven by her screaming and shouting for help. End quote.
Shushu Chan do you even know what the Sharia law is? There is not a single country on this planet which governs by Sharia law.
lol dude, as a muslim, trust me when I tell you that all muslim countries are governed by the sharia law and they are at least 40 countries. so please don’t say things you’re not sure of . Do your research so you would get the right information about the subject .
Listen Raii, There is not a single country on planet earth that governs by the sharia law, Trust me i have done my research. I can agree with you that many muslim countries govern by some aspects of sharia law but there is not a single country that applies all the law of sharia.
i agree with you, of course there’s not a single country that apply to all the law of sharia. no country is perfect but muslim countries apply sharia laws in most of the things they do and so the people of it. sharia is bigger than you think. muslims apply it even in the smallest details that you couldn’t possibly imagine, so even if a muslim country doesnt apply al laws of sharia, its people do in their every day life. what Im trying to say is that sharia is part of who we are (muslims) no matter how often our country apply and abide by the laws of sharia. ( by the way, if you’re interested in knowing the sharia, the “real peaceful sharia”, read a bit about it in the right places, it’s really cool and related to lots of scientific stuff).
lies
The comments that say they don’t care or this is promoting promiscuity, *you are why this talk was made*
The hymen is not the “problem” here. It’s the people who don’t want a sexually adventurous woman in their house. You have to change the way people think about it and with this talk I think you failed. For a person who values virginity, it’s still better to rely on blood and inspection and be completely sure for 50% of the women he has, than be completely unsure about all of them.
True.
I grew up in Massachusetts, my mother was from Glasgow. She wouldn’t let me use tampons until I was a teenager because she was afraid it would break my hymn. I lost my virginity young and did not bleed and my boyfriend told me I had lied about being a virgin and he couldn’t trust me (he was 16 I was 14) and immediately broke up with me. So yeah, this is not just a foreign issue. I’m 33…so it wasn’t that long ago!
sasablink my best friend started her period when she was in third grade. You can start your period before you are a teenager.
Free Spirit teenage years are initiated by puberty so it’s not a matter of a number or a certain age. You probably mean teenage years as defined by the number (like 13-19) and not the actual growing stage.
“Ruined” <--- Hymen myth but also the idea that virginity, proof or not, does not "RUIN" anyone, that's the word that has to go. Virginity worship is a mental derangement in my opinion.
Tbh, in my view, it is good to maintain it until in a commited relationship, I personally recommend only marriage to be the one, but each person has their own choices to make in life, but once in a committed relationship, go ham, and if you do it outside of a committed relationship, well I wouldn’t agree, but it isn’t my life, and it isn’t the end of the man or females life either, but it may be the beginning of something bad for their life or good ultimately who knows, it is a case by case situation.
That’s your choice, but tell me, do you judge others much? How you conduct yourself is your business, not mine, as such how I conduct myself is none of your business. I don’t think either of us has the right to think less of the other based on choices which have zero effect on the other.
If I sleep with 20 women in a weekend, how does that affect you? That’s my bigger point.
So many girls I know believe those myths!!!!! #murica