I’ve always had an issue with the idea that you have to absolutely love yourself before you can truly love another person. In a society where we are told at every turn how to improve to fit a particular mold …
Kerry O'Sullivan is the sex and relationships editor of Trinity News 2020/21 and is a senior fresh student of middle eastern and european languages and cultures.
Can friends with benefits ever work?
Kerry O’Sullivan asks where the line is between platonic and romantic
The title of that Oscar-worthy Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis crossover, Friends With Benefits, has morphed to encompass a phrase much more culturally relevant than the plot of an early 2000s rom-com. More and more, we find ourselves in a …
Sexual Revolution Reads
Kerry O’Sullivan takes us through some sex and relationship reads to fill those lockdown days
Like the rest of us, you’re probably finding yourself with more spare time during this lockdown than any other. It’s easy to waste days away with mindless scrolling and staring into the existential void. With that said, why not take …
Socially distanced dating: Zoom edition
Switching up your online dating life one zoom at a time
Another March rolls around and most of us have had more lockdowns than in-person dates in the last year. There is a definite dating app fatigue, constant talking stages that fizzle out and endless facetime calls with not a whole …
What sex education didn’t teach me
Kerry O’Sullivan unpacks the failures of her Sex-Ed
I still remember sitting there at the ripe old age of eleven, hyper screams and laughter reverberating around a dingy little classroom; the very first time we got “The Talk”, the infamous and nerve-wracking discovery of what scary things were …
The Mystery of the Female Orgasm
Kerry O’Sullivan discusses the ignorance around female sexual experience
“Did you finish?” Too many of us have been asked this question and answered with a lie. And what for? For the fear of offending your partner? Because you just knew it wasn’t going to happen and you needed a …
Should we even count?
Saoirse Joy unpacks the stigma of one’s sexual body count, and whether it should matter at all
I make no secret of the fact that I love sex. It’s something that, as a single college student in her early twenties, I enjoy immensely, especially after a brief quarantine induced hiatus, and something that I don’t feel ashamed …
How to Tinder: the trials and tribulations
Five tips on how to ace the Tinder game and actually find what you’re looking for
How to Tinder, you may ask? To begin with, you should stop hiding the app in an inconspicuous folder on your phone that no one else will find. Look, I get it. I get the download shame and the thinly-veiled …
Socially distanced dates : Level 5 edition
How to make the most of your love life in the middle of a national lockdown
The time has come where the unthinkable, yet inevitable, has happened once again. With the country once more in a 6 week lockdown, it’s time to get creative with keeping romance alive. Whether it’s a first date or you live …
Too Hot to Handle: self-distanced love
Managing your sex life during a pandemic is even harder than it seems
Much like every other bored and quarantined individual, I found myself reluctantly pressing play on Netflix’s new and much-hyped latest attempt at capturing the Love Island audience. I was skeptical, but the premise of Too Hot to Handle was eerily …