Sex
# sex - Wednesday 15 May, 2013
Significant increase in numbers seeking treatment for sex addiction
The Rutland Centre says sexual addiction is accounting for a growing number of its total client base.
# sex - Friday 3 May, 2013
TDs to debate plans to ‘name and shame’ those who pay for sex
Thomas Pringle has plans to change the current system, which makes it illegal only to solicit prostitution but not to buy it.
# sex - Saturday 27 April, 2013
Column: Does age really matter in a relationship?
While an age difference doesn’t matter initially it can eventually cause problems, writes Tony Moore, who says being in different stages in our lives can be difficult to deal with.
9 adult toys you won’t believe exist
Includes Passion Produce and the Oh-oh-Obama. NSFW.
Monday is the most common day women request the morning-after pill
While Dublin and Cork City are the most popular places for morning after pill consultations.
# sex - Friday 19 April, 2013
Vibrating knickers let you romp long distance
Fundawear is controlled by your partner’s smartphone.
# sex - Thursday 18 April, 2013
New app stops you having sex with your cousin
It sounds an incest alarm to prevent an “awkward reunion”.
# sex - Tuesday 16 April, 2013
Extract: I’ve left prostitution behind me, but I worry how my history will impact on my child
From a textbook dysfunctional home life, educational disadvantage and adolescent homelessness, Rachel Moran was primed for life as a prostitute. Here she tells her story about the losses prostitution can bring and how those you love can be tarred with shame by association.
# sex - Friday 12 April, 2013
Column: 11 ways to handle your child’s first teen disco
Are the scare stories about teenage discos really true? Sheila O’Malley has some advice on how to navigate this rite of passage.
# sex - Saturday 6 April, 2013
Slight drop in STIs – but gonorrhoea at highest figures ever recorded
There were 1,110 cases of gonorrhea in Ireland last year – an increase of one third on the previous year.
# sex - Tuesday 2 April, 2013
Column: Embarrassed to talk about sex and porn? Ireland, this is your wake-up call
Today’s young women and men are being educated about sex by watching hardcore porn online for years before they ever have their own first romantic or sexual experience. For their sake, it’s time to open up about real sex, writes Cindy Gallop.
The best songs to have sex to (according to Twitter)
This hashtag has us worried.
# sex - Saturday 30 March, 2013
12 incredibly Irish moments from the new ‘bonkbuster’
‘The Cougar Diaries’ is an erotic novel, but not as we know it.
# sex - Wednesday 27 March, 2013
12 ways Viagra has changed the world in 15 years
Happy Birthday Viagra, you old dog you.
# sex - Monday 25 March, 2013
HSE asks SpunOut.ie to consider ‘appropriateness’ of threesomes article
Meanwhile, Health Minister James Reilly said that he felt that the threesomes information was not appropriate for the State to put out there.
Young Fine Gael ‘fully endorses’ work by SpunOut.ie
The group’s president said that “whether Deputy Mulherin accepts it or not, the reality is that young people are having sex”.
Column: Young people deserve education on all sorts of relationships – threesomes included
Fine Gael TD Michelle Mulherin has expressed outrage over a youth health charity offering advice on threesomes – but young people deserve access to open, balanced information on all types of sexual relationships, writes Genevieve Shanahan.
# sex - Monday 14 January, 2013
Lisa McInerney: All sexual harassment needs to thrive is for good men to do nothing
A new #shoutingback project on social media reveals lots of decent men are horrified by public harassment of women – none of us, men or women, should put up with it.
# sex - Saturday 12 January, 2013
Column: Internet porn needs a warning – ‘may hurt your relationship’
When internet porn becomes a feature in a relationship it can bring catastrophic consequences, writes Eithne Bacuzzi.
# sex - Saturday 5 January, 2013
Banned ‘Aristotle’ sex manual to sell for up to £400
The 1766 book contained more wives tales than actual Aristotle.
# sex - Friday 21 December, 2012
Column: Why are we getting complacent with our sexual health?
We should know by now that having unprotected sex is not safe, writes Anna Quigley – so why are we engaging in risky sexual behaviour?
# sex - Sunday 9 December, 2012
Column: How sex shops came to Ireland
The Republic’s first sex shop was opened in 1991 amid a storm of controversy. Two decades later, Donal Fallon looks at the chequered history of the adult store.
# sex - Friday 30 November, 2012
UFC fighter Ronda Rousey says there’s a scientific reason why she has as much sex as possible before a fight
“If I got a steady I’m like, ‘Yo, fight time’s coming up.’”
# sex - Thursday 29 November, 2012
Revealed: the life of a 13-year-old growing up in Ireland
Here’s what it’s like to be a young teenager living in Ireland.
# sex - Tuesday 27 November, 2012
Poll: Should contraception be free?
Research has found that people are having difficulty meeting the costs of contraception. Should Ireland follow the lead of other countries and make all contraception available free of charge?
# sex - Thursday 22 November, 2012
Irish man jailed for alleged Dubai taxi romp
The man and a British woman were accused of removing clothing and fondling each other in the cab.
# sex - Wednesday 21 November, 2012
8 of the worst sex scenes you’ll read this year
The nominees for the 2012 Bad Sex Awards have been announced… Brace yourself.
# sex - Thursday 15 November, 2012
Ireland ‘performing well’ in areas of sexual and reproductive health
However, in terms of contraceptive use, Ireland is still not quite hitting the average for developed countries.
# sex - Sunday 11 November, 2012
Column: Let’s talk about sex – how to handle the dreaded talk with your teens
Your teen needs to be informed about sexual health and the importance of keeping themselves safe, writes Martina Newe.
# sex - Sunday 4 November, 2012
12 things that are better than sex, according to people
A groundbreaking investigation into the science of pleasure. Includes Irish accents!
# sex - Saturday 3 November, 2012
Gonorrhoea hits highest rate ever recorded in Ireland
A HSE report has found that the number of STIs in Ireland increased dramatically last year.
# sex - Sunday 21 October, 2012
Column: 11 ways to ACTUALLY start a proper exercise regime
More happiness AND a better sex life? Ciara Conlon explains how to make sure your new routine doesn’t fall by the wayside.
# sex - Saturday 20 October, 2012
# sex - Friday 19 October, 2012
Ireland is the ’6th highest’ sign-up to Make Love Not Porn website
Cindy Gallop founded the real-life sex video website to counter the myths of the porn industry – and revealed this morning that Irish people have been signing up in droves.
# sex - Thursday 18 October, 2012
Web summit hears: Sex please, you’re Irish
Cindy Gallop, founder of Make Love Not Porn, wants Irish people to share their real-life sex videos to counter the myths of online porn (and to make some money while they’re at it).
# sex - Tuesday 16 October, 2012
‘Don’t counter-demonstrate in Belfast’, Marie Stopes International urges
The organisation is to open its Belfast clinic on Thursday, and is expecting planned protests – but asks people not to counter-protest, to ensure public safety.
# sex - Monday 15 October, 2012
Website runs ‘smallest penis’ contest… for an iPhone
Entrants must send in photos of their, er, members with a measuring tape.
# sex - Thursday 11 October, 2012
First private abortion clinic to open in Northern Ireland
The sexual health and abortion clinic is to open in Belfast and will be run by Marie Stopes.
# sex - Wednesday 26 September, 2012
Strauss-Kahn wants pimping charges dropped
The former IMF head admits attending orgies – but says he had no idea the women involved were paid to take part.
# sex - Monday 3 September, 2012
7 details that show the Fifty Shades of Grey author has a boring life
Orgies, decadence and the creative use of handcuffs? Not quite.
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