By Emily Osborn Trigger Warning: This article contains discussions of sexual violence and r*pe. In 2019, Pornhub released a list of the most commonly searched terms on their platform. The list was dominated by terms such as ‘teen’, ‘step mom’, ‘gangbang’, and bondage proved to be one of the most popular categories on the website….
By Emily Osborn This article contains mentions and discussions of grooming, which is a very sensitive topic for some people- please consider skipping this article if you feel it may cause you to feel hurt or upset. To quote Foucault, power is everywhere; romantic relationships being no exception. In the media and amongst the general…
By Emily Osborn Ireland is finally starting to emerge from lockdown. With the world being advised to avoid physical contact at all costs, it would have been expected that society’s collective sex lives would have died of neglect. But with all that time spent indoors, people had to do something (or someone) to fight their…
By Jack Wrixon, Sexpress Editor Without sugar-coating it, the climate crisis we’re currently facing is awful. Watching the world around you slowly decay as a direct result of human activity is nothing if not both an existential crisis and also, a turn off. But what can be done? It’s easy to shift a lot of…
By Jack Wrixon, Sexpress Editor Taking nudes is an art form. Never has a picture of someone’s body or their genitals ever been so controversial, so coveted, so sexual. Nude pictures of people have been found throughout history and throughout cultures, with a very famous example being of Agnès Sorel, mistress to King Charles VIII…
By Jack Wrixon, Sexpress Editor On the 25th of May 2018, the people of Ireland voted with a 66% majority to repeal the Eighth Amendment of the Irish Constitution. This amendment saw the legalisation of abortions across the country, and put an end to the decades of neglect and suffering faced by the citizens of…
By Jack Wrixon – Sexpress Editor Since we’re all sitting at home doing nothing (or should be anyway), many people have found themselves listening to more and more podcasts, and there are a lot of great options for listening out there. There are also unfortunately a lot of bad ones, but we won’t mention them…
This article features content regarding the practice of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). It is not intended to upset or harm any person, but simply to inform of this practice. I’m flagging this now in order for readers to prepare themselves, either to engage or disengage from reading the piece. Stay safe and look after yourself. …
To preface this, I just want to discuss how nobody talks about how awkward sex is. There is such a standard and expectation for what sex should be like, that very often we forget that we’re all human and that we’re allowed to make mistakes. This is something I’m guilty of as well, so this…
By Molly Kavanagh Endometriosis sucks. It’s a chronic illness where the tissue that lines a person’s uterus, called the endometrium, doesn’t shed completely during a person’s menstrual cycle. Instead of exiting the body via the vagina as it’s supposed to, it sheds and grows and attaches itself to the surrounding pelvic organs, including your ovaries,…