Caroline West: Modern sex education can help build a better society

Sex is more than just physical components. It includes emotional, mental, spiritual, social, biochemical, economic, political, institutional, and energetical aspects. 

While we wait for the review of the RSE curriculum to be implemented, it is important to remind ourselves of what modern sex education should be covering. File photo: iStock

Once again, we are having a public conversation about sex education, but where is the action?

It appears that, as always when it comes to talking about sex in Ireland, we are perpetually caught up in a cycle of outrage and silence. For years, students have reported that they do not feel that sex education is adequate or is too religious, but nothing has been done.