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# sex ed

This year
2023
# sexual health
Call to consider including advice for over-40s in new sexual health strategy
An independent review has made 32 recommendations on how to advance Ireland’s sexual health and wellbeing.
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Mar 27th 2023, 3:26 PM
All time
# overhaul
External agencies providing sex ed in schools to be regulated in recommended radical overhaul
A report launching today calls for a radical overhaul of how sex education is taught in both primary and secondary schools.
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Jan 29th 2019, 12:05 AM
# sex ed
Did you get a sex and consent guide like the one Emma Thompson penned for her daughter?
“Ick is an unbelievably useful emotion.”
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Nov 19th 2018, 10:35 AM
Voices
The A&F hazing incidents proves why all colleges should have consent classes
If consent classes and real world sex ed have the power to reduce sexual assault, harassment and incidents of rape, then why the hell aren’t we doing it already?, asks Garreth MacNamee.
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Oct 20th 2018, 6:30 PM
# sex ed
Let’s talk about how my mother used an episode of 'Malcolm In the Middle' to teach me about sex
Irish sex education at its finest.
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Sep 11th 2018, 8:00 AM
# sex ed
Twitter is revealing the most ridiculous misconceptions people have about the human body
For the love of…
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Sep 8th 2018, 8:00 PM
# sex ed
Minister 'shocked' and 'taken aback' at the age Irish children are viewing pornography
A new survey finds that 53% of boys in Ireland first watched porn under the age of 13.
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Aug 7th 2018, 3:45 PM
# sex education
'Like rabbits caught in headlights': Catholic schools head says sex ed has not moved with the times
TDs and Senators pressed on if elements of sex education would be left out of the curriculum in Catholic schools.
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Jul 5th 2018, 11:45 AM
# LGBTQ
'The sex ed that we have at the minute is clearly not working'
LGBTQ+ groups have called on Varadkar to commit to funding the Sex Education Bill before Pride.
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Jun 27th 2018, 4:21 PM
# sex ed
Education committee sex ed hearing delayed as not enough senators to reach quorum
Among those due to give evidence were the Rape Crisis Network Ireland.
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Jun 12th 2018, 11:06 PM
# free contraception
Government to provide more free condoms to tackle crisis pregnancies
Consideration is also being given to the extension of the provision of the morning-after pill.
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May 16th 2018, 6:37 PM
# let's talk about sex
'Religious groups shouldn't be involved in sex education'
Proposed legislation seeks to remove religious ethos from sex education in schools.
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Apr 4th 2018, 7:00 PM
# sex ed
Poll: Have you ever spoken to your kids about consent?
Schools are set to introduce consent classes for the first time.
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Apr 3rd 2018, 5:56 PM
# LGBT
'There's a constant fear we will be attacked, intimidated or called slurs'
Seven in 10 young LGBT+ people believe schools in Ireland are not safe places.
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Aug 30th 2017, 10:38 PM
# Your Say
Poll: Was your sex ed in school good enough?
It’s an important subject, but one that isn’t always well delivered.
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Mar 30th 2017, 9:20 AM
Voices
Opinion: 'I'll lend Enda one of my DVDs so he can see what's out there in the world of porn'
Porn is not sex education, but it’s where people look for information when faced with silence, writes scholar in sexuality studies Caroline Ryan.
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Oct 30th 2016, 10:15 PM
# Stereotypes
Sex education often 'out of touch and taught by embarrassed teachers'
Research has found stereotyping is common, with women often depicted as passive and men as predatory.
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Sep 13th 2016, 8:41 AM
# birds and bees
John Oliver has made a sex ed video with a Breaking Bad twist
“The conversation that animals in zoos refuse to let you not have.”
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Aug 10th 2015, 10:00 PM
# wax on wax off
'I'd dump a girl if she had pubic hair': what teens think about sex
“It’s proper complicated, a fanny, ain’t it?”
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Aug 7th 2015, 11:34 AM
# Sex cells
The Hardest Sex Ed Quiz Ever
Are you fully versed in the birds and bees? Take the test.
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Jul 26th 2015, 6:00 PM
# Swimmers
12 facts about sperm everyone should know
Class is in session.
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Jul 19th 2015, 8:15 PM
# sex ed
12 things women want men to know about sex
Don’t pat us on the head when we’re *down there*, for a start.
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Jul 5th 2015, 8:15 PM
# An education
A teenage girl was suspended for these incredibly spot-on answers to a sex ed quiz
“Condoms are gross, I hate them.” “So are babies.”
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May 5th 2015, 7:39 PM
# Your Say
Poll: Should porn be shown in the classroom as a part of sex ed?
It has been argued that children need to be educated on how to interpret it.
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Mar 24th 2015, 9:14 AM
# irish sex ed
Irish people are sharing their bleak, bleak tales of Sex Ed on Twitter
Nuns, Eurotrash and Queen all make an appearance.
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Jan 28th 2015, 1:02 PM
# over to you
Open thread: What kind of sex education did you get in school?
Useful? Cringey? Non-existent?
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Apr 15th 2014, 10:59 PM
# local erections
"I have my own willy, which can also double up as a towel-holder" - MEP's sex ed video is surprisingly instructive
Don’t we all?
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Apr 10th 2014, 10:25 PM
Voices
Column: Relationship and sex education should be consistently provided in all schools
Early relationships and sexual adventures – or the choice to avoid them – can have a formative effect both on a personality and on a life. As such, young people need access to consistent sex education, writes Aaron McKenna.
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Mar 15th 2014, 8:00 AM
# sex ed
Trinity's 'sex toy' sculpture gets a visit from the Government (NSFW)
In the form of Education Minister Ruairi Quinn.
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Nov 15th 2013, 4:07 PM