Understanding the Sex Myth: Rachel Hills at TEDxLoughborough

"Painting Humanity" - Recorded on 16th March 2013 at TEDxLoughborough in Loughborough, UK. Venue: Loughborough Student's Union at Loughborough University. ■ Talk: Turn on the TV or head to the Daily Mail online, and you could be forgiven for thinking we live in an age of unprecedented sexual hedonism, fuelled by teen sexting, pornography, and The Only Way Is Essex. But the reality of young people's sex lives looks very different. In this engaging and thought-provoking talk, Rachel Hills introduces the Sex Myth: the modern Western philosophy of sexuality that ties our identity and value to what we do in the bedroom, with anxiety and inflated expectations as the result. ■ Speaker: Rachel Hills is an Australian writer living in the heart of England -- London. Her work has been published in The Atlantic, The Spectator, Vogue, Cosmopolitan, NYmag.com and more, and her blog, Musings of An Inappropriate Woman, has more than 50,000 subscribers around the globe. Rachel's book, The Sex Myth, will be published internationally in 2014. ■ More information about TEDxLoughborough can be found at http://www.tedxloughborough.com Like us on Facebook   / tedxloughborough   Follow us on Twitter @TEDxLboro Please address all correspondence to Youcef Hakem, Curator of TEDxLoughborough, at http://www.ted.com/profiles/1223722 In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)