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forth elsewhere: sex, rape and abortion – Ireland courts vulnerability

Mon 21 Dec, 2009

Read forth editor JASON WALSH writing about Ireland’s inability to deal with sex, in Spiked magazine

“Recent developments suggest that Ireland is singularly incapable of coming to terms with abortion for one simple reason: despite its modernisation, the country still cannot cope with sex, preferring to obsess over its ‘dark side’ than the millions of normal sexual encounters that go on. The entire nation appears to be mired in a neverending series of sexual abuse-related scandals, all of which are centred on not the relatively straightforward fact that crimes have been committed (which they have) but a disturbing obsession with victimology.”

Read the full article in spiked

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