[Ramsay]

It was recently brought up at the Dail over here and the people opposed to it were throwing out completely stupid facts from their arse that it made me almost feel good that my money is going to the drug trade and not them fools

[Nemo123]

You'll always have to fight conservative forces in Ireland. In the republic Of Ireland, there was a "Condom Train", famously back in the 1980's, where mostly women challenged the illegality of contraceptives, and went up to the North of Ireland to buy, legally, condoms and bring them back to Ireland and face the gauntlet of the customs and the Law. They made a big statement. But that was only a part of the picture of life in Ireland. You would not believe what outraged the public, and fell on the wrong side of the law only 30 years ago, and how much enlightment has been brought to the insular Irish.

[Nemo123]

Sex was a guilt ridden thing. It was only allowed within the parameters of marriage, and had to be for the sake of procreation. Masturbating was very frowned upon; biblically it was casting your seed on stoney ground. In my school, we only had a couple of teachers who weren't brothers or priests. I can never forget being coerced to make a confession to a priest. I'd been thought masturbation was wrong, but as a child it was also deeply secret and personal. I felt conflicted. To tell the truth to my confessor or keep it to myself. I kept it to myself, and jettisoned all respect in everything I'd been taught to believe in; Religion could go and fook itself! I gave up on it and never went back. This controlling force by which I held everything sacred could go to hell.