Texts and emails, Tuesday 15 December 2009
Topic: Sex in Ireland
Panelists: Diarmaid Ferriter, Breda O’Brien and Tom Inglis.
The regulatory structures are already in place, the problem is the regulators are too close to the bankers and the regulation is not bfing enforced. That's it. No need to spend millions to discover this.
Mick.
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What about all the children that were sent out to houses all over the country to help out on farms etc. To houses of bachelors to be used and abused look at th the census of 1911 alot of there children were horifically abused. My mother is 82 and she remembers girls in her class who even dissappeared and were never seen again why?
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None of us were told the 'Facts of Life'! No one told that in a mass financial panic, u may lose all but be on d hook for it taxwise?
Ruairi, Tullamore.
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Sex is marketing today, the fact that we are here tells me (despite racism as bigotry) my ancestors understood sex! Education? A disguise for perverts and perversion?. The 50/60ties raised the unwanted children/illegitimacies that were a two pronged attack on Christianity. Sex the downfall o both?
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I was pregnant in the early 70's, unmarried and 15, i was treated like a leper, it would have easier if i had murdered someone. I don't agree with that woman there isn’t enough consistent practical sex education, out there. Anne
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It's important that parents teach boys in particular to simply respect girls!
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My parents never spoke 2 one another but had ten kids!
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You and the panel keep referring to 'we' irish - there have always been, and it is even more pronounced now, a number of social groups in Ireland with no more an homogenous view on sexuality than on any other issue. When asking what do 'we' irish think of sex one needs to ask which 'we' irish are 'we' referring to.
Mark Anderson, Waterford.
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I would like to remind the panel that the greatest numbers of people who contracted Syphillis in Irel in 2007/8 were mostly aged 50+. People who, knowing contraception is not an issue, simply forget the importance of using a CONDOM.
Grace, Dublin 5.
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Why, in a discussion focusing largely on young people and sex, are there no "young people" on the panels?
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Merry syphilis and a happy gonorrhoea!
Ned.
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VINCENT!! Four men. One woman. How representative is THAT of sexual mores in Ireland?! Unbalanced panel or what?
Viv.
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Keeping sex inside marriage is a positive alternative. If humani vitae had been practiced by us all there would of been less child abuse, unwanted pregnancies, marriage breakdown etc.
Peter, Waterford.
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You are an utter disgrace 2 decry RTE 4 their SERVICE 2 the community with both excellent progs re dole fraud + criminality. Will u think straight 4 once. We the decent hard working taxpayers are victimised by dole fraudsters n criminals - lazy thieving dossers. People in the crime documentary vandalised homes n terrorised innocent people, even with a machete. Live in those circumstances Vincent b4 u scoff at progs which give true victims a voice. Such progs are not rightwing merely right. 4get ur discredited cheese n wine socialism. By the way are u prepared 2 take 5 times the lowest wage {cleaner's} at TV3 which u advocated 4 others? Somethin like €45 or €50 an hr. Maybe a champagne n caviar socialist cud do this no prob. No doubt ur possibly left wing staff will censor this in true "liberal" fashion. The Berlin Wall has fallen but not in some mentalities in Ireland. Shame. Siobhan.