'It's not about the absence of something... but I look forward to sex eventually, I guess'
Two young people talk to TheJournal.ie about how they came to lead lives of chastity.
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Two young people talk to TheJournal.ie about how they came to lead lives of chastity.
Only 9% of students asked said they would reduce their alcohol consumption due to an awareness of medical consequences.
For Miguel Herrera and his boys it is a case of ‘No World Cup sex please, we’re Mexicans’.
“We were told how ‘god loves sex’,” one student said. “However it was implied that is only after marriage.”
Today is one of two days of the year when alcohol cannot be sold or purchased. In an almost post-apocalyptic scene, people rush to stock up the day before so that they aren’t left short and so they can get through their Friday night, but what’s that say about us as a society, asks Kathryn Reilly.
Plus, a significant drop in illicit drug use has brought Irish teens in line with their European counterparts.