'I am still getting asked, is it even a thing?': Why we need to talk to our girls about masturbation 

Despite so much progress, there is still the need for Irish women to learn a lot about sex, their own body, and self love, write Nicole Glennon and Filomena Kaguako

Yewande Biala (left) and Grace Alice O’Sé (right).

As I sat down to watch the final season of Sex Education on Netflix earlier this month, I found myself turning the volume down and turning a shade of cherry red just a few moments into the opening episode.

It’s a scene with Aimee, one of the show’s main characters, and she’s introduced under the covers, emerging as she climaxes and whips out a sex toy. Around her, the camera shows a room littered with dildos, vibrators, lube and sex books — not hidden in a bottom drawer, but out, in full display.