Pleasure principle: Jenny Keane brings the Orgasm tour to Cork's Everyman

Jenny Keane is helping to lead a sexual revolution in Ireland, freeing libidos, opening up communication and ridding us of age-old guilt. Gemma Fullam catches up with the straight-talking sex educator ahead of her show in Cork

Jenny Keane: Her goal is to “try to make the conversation about sex as mainstream as possible. I believe that this conversation is just like any other conversation”.

THERE’S a scene in the 1992 movie Fried Green Tomatoes in which housewife Evelyn Couch and her fellow women’s circle participants are instructed to “slip off your panties and straddle your mirrors”.

Back in the ’90s, getting up close and personal with your vagina fell firmly into the category of New Agey woo-woo, but today, for sex educator Jenny Keane, it’s an integral part of her online orgasm workshop. Encouraging women to use a mirror to look at their vulva fosters both anatomical awareness and an understanding of how genitals function, because Keane asks, “If you don’t know where all the parts are and how all the parts function, how do you expect to be able to access pleasure?”