Why I gave my teenage daughter a vibrator | Robin Buckley

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🗓️ 27 September 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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"Why does a vibrator make us uncomfortable, but Viagra does not?" asks cognitive-behavioral coach Robin Buckley. Sharing her own personal story of empowering her teenage daughter to explore the power of pleasure, Buckley encourages parents to talk to their teens about healthy sexual development -- and shares why the awkward conversations are worth it.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective
0:11.0	It's Ted Talks Daily.
0:12.0	I'm Elise Hugh.
0:13.0	Today we're talking about sex, not between couples, but with ourselves.
0:17.8	In her 2022 talk from Ted X Portsmouth, psychologist Robin Buckley makes a convincing case for
0:23.6	why she bought her teenage daughter a vibrator, and why the rest of us with teen girls should
0:28.7	consider doing it too.
0:30.7	It's coming up after a break.
0:34.7	Hey, it's Adam Grant, host of WorkLife, another podcast from the Ted Audio Collective.
0:39.7	As the Work landscape keeps changing, WorkLife is a show about making your job work for you.
0:44.7	This season you'll hear about why meetings are broken, how to fix them.
0:48.7	We've just accepted browsing about meetings as this normative behavior,
0:53.7	kind of like talking about the rain in England.
0:55.7	And yet it's incredibly soluble.
0:58.7	Find WorkLife at Adam Grant, wherever you listen to podcasts.
1:04.7	Six years ago, when my older daughter was 13, I bought her a vibrator.
1:13.7	I'm done!
1:17.7	It wasn't something I planned undoing.
1:21.7	I mean, I knew eventually my daughters would eat bras and tampons, maybe braces.
1:25.7	But a vibrator was not on the list.
1:29.7	So why did I do it?
1:32.7	Before I explain why, I want to acknowledge that I might have made some of you a little uncomfortable,
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