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
Dave’s Story
I had just started going out with this girl – I knew her for a while before we started going out. A couple of weeks later I started noticing small warts on my penis. I freaked out. They were itchy – it was really embarrassing. I didn’t do anything about it for a few days, I was hoping they would go away, but they didn’t.
I told my older cousin. I knew I could trust him. He told me about the clinic and he came with me to the appointment. It was grand – there were loads of people there my age, some people were there with their parents.
The nurse was really sound. She told me that I had genital warts and that I could get them burned or frozen off. I got them frozen off. It wasn’t sore really.
The problem is that the virus that causes the warts stays in my body. I could get the warts again, or I could give them to someone. From now on I have to use condoms every single time I have sex or else the girl could get the warts virus.