Freshers is one of the most important weeks in the social calendar of any student; every day of your Freshers experience feels like you’re meeting more people than would fill your home town. It can be daunting or exciting, or …
Sex & Relationships
Things that make you go Oh!
Anna Lyons unpacks the truth behind the female orgasm
An orgasm is the moment during sexual activity when feelings of sexual pleasure are at their strongest. While we can put a dictionary definition on the term orgasm, an abundance of questions still remain: How does someone know when they’ve …
Agony Aunts: Trinity College Dublin Edition
The Sex and Relationships team tackle the questions plaguing the minds of students
Q: I don’t know if there’s anything more between me and a friend, or if they just see me as a friend.
Ria: For me, not knowing whether or not something more exists is scary. I regret every situation …
Unlearning unhelpful lessons on female pleasure
Ella McGill addresses the harmful and internalised aspects regarding sex that are so commonly taught through patriarchal structures
Pleasure for people with vulvas is often misrepresented in the mainstream, leading us to internalise a lot of unhelpful lessons about our bodies. Most of us have to spend time unlearning those lessons, much to the detriment of our collective …
The sex advice our parents never gave us in Block, Delete, Move on
Through the work of Lalala Let Me Explain, Darragh Mathews sheds light on important lessons on sex and sexuality
If you have ever wished for a wise agony aunt at your disposal to satisfy every query you have ever had about sex and relationships, look no further than Lalala Let Me Explain. An ex-social worker turned anonymous online sex …
A Look Into Love: Exploring Eros
Three Trinity students consider what love means through the Greek concept of Eros
Eros in the Greek – Ria Walls
When we think of love, eros (ἔρως) may be the first concept that we associate with the word. In the Greek language, eros means passionate love in a lustful, desiring, sexual way. …
The Top Five Sex Shops in Dublin
Molly Longstaff explores the best places in the city to find the perfect sex toy for you
Sex toys. Despite our generation’s ardent proclamations of sexual liberation, when it comes to sex toys, an air tinged with taboo lingers. Vibrators are buried at the bottom of cloth piles, butt plugs secured and lube tucked behind cosmetics. Perhaps …
Sex and Stigma
Emma Gallagher explores College’s worst kept secret and why so many students try to keep it that way
In a world of marketable insecurities, to love your body seems like some grand act of rebellion. To let someone else love it, whilst openly admitting to it, seems totally outrageous. We fall into the trap of assuming people see …
Is there such a thing as right person, wrong time?
Savannah Turnbull unpacks the process of finding ‘the one’
If you weren’t haunted by Andrew Scott’s final words in season 2 of Fleabag, please pass your therapist’s number on to me. The gut-wrenching season finale duologue between Fleabag and Hot priest has echoed in my mind for the past …
Dating in Dublin: Bye For Now
A Trinity student explores the reality of dating in the small city
I grew up in London, where Tinder was deemed to be a quick way to die or a trek out to a suburb you’d never normally go to. I would never previously have dreamed of signing up to a dating …