The Facts... without the Lecture
B4uDecide.ie is closing down at the end of May 2024.
Alternative sources of relationships and sexuality information and resources:
- For 16-25 year olds: SpunOut.ie is an information provision website, including relationships and sexuality issues.
- For 17+ year olds: Sexualwellbeing.ie is the HSE website that provides information and resources on a wide range of information such as consent, contraception, sexual transmitted infections, vaccinations and unplanned pregnancy
- For parents: The HSE’s ‘Making the ‘Big Talk’ many small talks’ series of booklets to help parents and children talk about relationships and sexuality is available online, and to order free of charge from healthpromotion.ie. HSE funded RSE workshops are available at npc.ie and ifpa.ie
- For teachers: Junior Cycle SPHE Resources are available to support the new 2023 SPHE specification , including the Relationship and Sexuality strand.
- For youthworkers: HSE funded training on relationship and sexuality issues is available at REAL U | Foroige and Tailored Training Courses – National Youth Council of Ireland
Relationships
Your relationships with other people, like your parents, family, friends, teachers and youth workers are very important.
Healthy relationships help you to build good self-esteem and have a positive effect on your life. Unhealthy relationships can make you feel bad about yourself and can make you unhappy. Visit the Self esteem section to learn more.
As you get older, you may become more interested in having a boyfriend or girlfriend. Good relationships with boyfriends and girlfriends usually begin as Friendships.
As you get older, you will become more aware of your sexuality and you will begin to feel attracted to other people.
Teenage years can be an exciting time, but many teenagers say that they feel under pressure to do things because everyone else is doing it. If you need help in dealing with pressure, visit the Peer Pressure section.
The Age of Consent for sexual intercourse for heterosexual and homosexual sex is 17 for boys and girls.