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Laci Green (born October 18, 1989) is an American
YouTuber A YouTuber is an online personality and/or influencer who produces videos on the video-sharing platform YouTube, typically posting to their personal YouTube channel. The term was first used in the English language in 2006. Influence Influent ...
. Her content focuses on sex education; Green also hosted ''Braless'', the first
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channel, as part of a 12-week deal with MTV. The first episode aired November 4, 2014. In 2016, ''
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'' named her one of the 30 most influential people on the Internet. In 2017, she celebrated her tenth anniversary on YouTube.


Early life and education

Green was born in
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. Her mother is a
Mormon Mormons are a religious and cultural group related to Mormonism, the principal branch of the Latter Day Saint movement started by Joseph Smith in upstate New York during the 1820s. After Smith's death in 1844, the movement split into several ...
from a small American town, and her father, from a
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family, is from
Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...
. When she was two years old, her family moved to
Portland, Oregon Portland (, ) is a port city in the Pacific Northwest and the largest city in the U.S. state of Oregon. Situated at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers, Portland is the county seat of Multnomah County, the most populous co ...
, and when she was twelve, they moved to California for her father's job. As she grew older she began to question the Mormon faith because of its strict
gender roles A gender role, also known as a sex role, is a social role encompassing a range of behaviors and attitudes that are generally considered acceptable, appropriate, or desirable for a person based on that person's sex. Gender roles are usually cent ...
and expectations of her as a woman. Growing up, Green was interested in theater and was supported by her mother, who owns a theater company. In 2011, Green graduated from the
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with a
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in legal studies and education.


Career

Green's videos were originally a hobby, but as they grew more popular, she took greater interest in sex education. As of October 2014, her YouTube channel had more than 1,000,000 subscribers. As a sex educator, she has given lectures at several universities and on behalf of
Planned Parenthood The Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc. (PPFA), or simply Planned Parenthood, is a nonprofit organization that provides reproductive health care in the United States and globally. It is a tax-exempt corporation under Internal Reve ...
. Green is a former co-host of DNews, a YouTube channel with short science-based shows, launched by the
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website. On January 18, 2013, Green appeared on '' Dr. Phil'' in an episode titled "Girls Who Bash Girls Who Dress Sexy". She spoke about how she believes
slut-shaming Slut-shaming is the practice of criticizing people, especially women and girls, who are perceived to violate expectations of behavior and appearance regarding issues related to sexuality. The term is used to reclaim the word ''slut'' and empower ...
is wrong and how it is used to degrade a woman's sexuality. Green advances the
sex-positive movement The sex-positive movement is a social movement, social and philosophical movement that seeks to change cultural attitudes and norms around sexuality, promoting the recognition of sexuality (in the countless forms of expression) as a natural and he ...
in her videos and lectures. She has said that she wants to "get people to talk about sex in a way that isn't shameful, awkward, or weird. People are uneducated and this creates so many stigmas that don't need to be there." After fellow YouTuber
Sam Pepper Samuel Pepper (born 26 March 1989) is an English internet personality. He created his YouTube channel in 2010, accumulating over 2 million subscribers and 55 million video views . He joined TikTok in 2020 and has amassed more than 4 millio ...
posted a video of himself grabbing women's bottoms, Green wrote an open letter, co-signed by several other YouTube bloggers, asking Pepper to "stop violating women".
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and the
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interviewed her about
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in the YouTube community. In 2012, Green received death threats via the Internet for using the term "
tranny ''Tranny'' is an offensive and derogatory slur for a transgender individual. During the early 2000s, there was some confusion and debate over whether the term was a pejorative, was considered acceptable, or a reappropriated term of unity and pr ...
" in a video in 2009; she apologized and took the video down, saying that the comment had been made years earlier when she had been very uneducated. After a month-long break, she returned to her YouTube channel in August 2012. Green won a 2016
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for Science or Education. In May 2017, Green had a series of dialogs on Twitter, in her own videos, and in the videos of other YouTubers, with critics of
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,
gender identity Gender identity is the personal sense of one's own gender. Gender identity can correlate with a person's assigned sex or can differ from it. In most individuals, the various biological determinants of sex are congruent, and consistent with the i ...
, and modern feminism. She said that some of the points these critics made were "more valid than they'd previously seemed" and though she did not repudiate any of her past positions on these issues, the critics welcomed Green's overtures. In 2018, Green published her first book, ''Sex Plus: Learning, Loving and Enjoying Your Body''. On 3 September 2019, Green launched a podcast, titled ''Indirect Message,'' which "explores how the internet is changing society."


Personal life

Soon after leaving
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, informally known as the LDS Church or Mormon Church, is a Nontrinitarianism, nontrinitarian Christianity, Christian church that considers itself to be the Restorationism, restoration of the ...
, Green fell into a state of deep depression and struggled with
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and
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. She began to work with a therapist who helped her through her depression. She is now an
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, though occasionally attends the
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church. Green identifies as
pansexual , meaning "all" , definition = Sexual or romantic attraction to people regardless of gender , classification = Sexual identity , parent = Bisexuality , synonyms = , associated_terms = Polysexual, queer, heterofl ...
. She now lives in
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.


See also

*
List of LGBT people from Portland, Oregon Portland, Oregon has a large LGBT community for its size. Notable LGBT people from the city include: * Sam Adams – first openly gay mayor of a large U.S. city * Matt Alber – singer-songwriter * Terry Bean – gay rights activist and ...


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