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Raunch Culture - sexual liberation or old sexism? Public Meeting - Sandinos Sat 10th 4.30pm

Friday 10th June 2006

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The fight for sexual liberation was fought long and hard in Ireland. A national survey in 1973-74 found that three out of four people thought sex outside marriage was always wrong. A survey in 1997 found that 21- 24 year olds had had, on average, 13 different sexual partners. This survey also found that of those aged 17-20, exactly half had had sex before they were sixteen years old. A recent survey in Donegal found that young people in that previously conservative county are fast catching up with Dublin and the rest.

Now that we have moved from Magdalen Laundries and baptising "illegitimate" babies at the back of the Church to a more open attitude to sex, have we got sexual liberation or have we been conned? As lap dancing clubs open up all over the country and community centres start of offer classes in pole dancing, many women's rights activists are saying "this is not what we fought for".

So is 'raunch culture' a sign of more open attitudes to sex or just the old sexism dressed up in new clothes? These are the questions that will be discussed at an open forum this Sat 10th June at 4.30pm, upstairs in Sandinos cafe bar. The forum which is hosted by the Socialist Workers Party will be led by Belfast's Barbara Muldoon and is open to all.

The fight for sexual liberation was fought long and hard in Ireland. A national survey in 1973-74 found that three out of four people thought sex outside marriage was always wrong. A survey in 1997 found that 21- 24 year olds had had, on average, 13 different sexual partners. This survey also found that of those aged 17-20, exactly half had had sex before they were sixteen years old. A recent survey in Donegal found that young people in that previously conservative county are fast catching up with Dublin and the rest.

Now that we have moved from Magdalen Laundries and baptising "illegitimate" babies at the back of the Church to a more open attitude to sex, have we got sexual liberation or have we been conned? As lap dancing clubs open up all over the country and community centres start of offer classes in pole dancing, many women's rights activists are saying "this is not what we fought for".

So is 'raunch culture' a sign of more open attitudes to sex or just the old sexism dressed up in new clothes? These are the questions that will be discussed at an open forum this Sat 10th June at 4.30pm, upstairs in Sandinos cafe bar. The forum which is hosted by the Socialist Workers Party will be led by Belfast's Barbara Muldoon and is open to all.





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