Research shows most women regret one-night stands. Apart from not enjoying the experience, there is a host of other health and safety risks associated with having sex with a stranger, says Áilín Quinlan.

It’s 30 years since the Sexual Health Centre first opened its doors in Cork, a time when we didn’t even have a language to talk about sex, says CEO Deirdre Seery. Today, Ireland is transformed, she tells Ailín Quinlan.

Caoilian Sherlock is a musician and artist based in Cork city who triples up as a DJ as well as being one of the organisers of the Quarter Block Party. That arts and music festival takes place around North Main and South Main streets this weekend.

Isobel delivered her little boy at 6.30pm and by 7.10pm was out on the street of the Yorkshire clinic where she had given birth carrying her baby’s body in a cardboard box. From there she and her partner went back to their hotel.

Isobel was told at CUMH that her baby would either die in the womb or an hour after being born. She decided to go to England for a termination but was appalled by the service and her treatment there, writes Alison O’Connor

Philip Corcoran of Cork’s Sexual Health Centre urges men and women who are sexually active and taking risks to have a HIV test. It save lives and halts infection.

Half the people diagnosed HIV positive in Ireland last year had the virus for long periods before getting tested, latest figures from the Health Protection Surveillance Centre show.

While pleased that the issue of pornography and social networking was highlighted in The Irish Examiner (Oct 15 and 16), I was saddened by the reference to a young 17-year-old woman, still legally a child, as “Slane girl”.

THE youth organisation Spunout caused controversy when its website suggested threesomes for teens. Parents and politicians demanded to know why public money was used to promote kinky sex among teens.

A third of people living with HIV are unaware they carry the infection, new research has revealed.

Almost a third of people living with HIV are unaware they carry the infection, new research has revealed.

LISA, an educated mother of three who is HIV positive, recalls the day her nightmare began — December 2, 2002.

Some 331 new cases of HIV were diagnosed last year, the lowest level in 10 years, official figures show.

THE burden of keeping the secret of living with HIV means people are increasingly experiencing suicidal thoughts, depression and low self-esteem issues, experts have said.

THE Sexual Health Centre welcomes the reduction of VAT on condoms, removing them from the category of “luxury item”.

WELL done for highlighting the need for sex education in Ireland (Irish Examiner, June 23).

AN INNOVATIVE sex education programme currently offered to schools is in danger because of a lack of government funding.

COMPLEX issues require thorough analysis, sensitivity and clarity. The Joint Committee on Child Protection produced a carefully balanced report with over 60 recommendations based on 52 submissions, 33 items of correspondence, public and private sessions with legal, justice and medical experts and a comprehensive consultation process with young people.

INTERNATIONAL experts in sexual health are hoping to blow the lid on Ireland’s culture of denial around sex next month.