Q: My boyfriend and I are in our mid-20s, love each other and have been living together for two years. We have good sex once a week. I have a low libido, and I always have. But my sweet boyfriend needs more than once a week. Every once in a while, he brings up the […]
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Savage Love
Q: Is it possible for a man to insert his balls into a woman? It’s a topic I don’t want to Google. A few months ago, I was making out with a guy and he whispered to me that he wanted to insert his balls into me. I said, “What?!” and he moved on to […]
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Dan Savage
Q: I’m a middle-aged guy. My boyfriend has just left his teens. We originally got to know each other because I like to tie up muscular young guys and he’s a muscular young guy who likes getting tied up. But he’s a smart, funny kid and after a few months we started actually liking each […]
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Savage Love
Q: I’m a 38-year-old straight male in a long-term relationship. We have two children, still quite young. I am not sure what killed the intimacy of our relationship, but my spouse and I have been physically disconnected for years. This led to some sleazy adulterate behaviour on my part. We discussed the topic at length […]
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Music city maniacs
Halifax is, by definition, a transient city. With its fresh crop of academics arriving each and every September, so changeability is ubiquitous—whether it’s in the population, the weather or the music scene. This past spring, Halifax adoptee Jill Barber packed up her things and headed to Vancouver for love. The region’s former night sky greeters […]
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A pedestrian primer
As students, you represent the incoming population wave arriving in this Atlantic coastal city. The outgoing wave: Tourists. You’re here at the beginning of the end of tourist season, so numbers may perhaps not be as great as during the height of summer, but there is enough tourism still happening that you can and will […]
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Savage Love
Q: I have been in a relationship with the same guy since I was about 16. It’s been a little more than four years now, but I came out to him a year ago about the fact that I’m bisexual, which he has no problem with. So since then, I have had wild fantasies about […]
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Eastern wisdom
It’s September in Halifax and that means one thing: frosh. Welcome to all of you, particularly those from away, who are finding themselves in Halifax for the first time. In the interest of being proper hosts, we at The Coast thought to give you, the newbies, some coveted information that will make your transition here […]
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Clothes minded
There was a time in Halifax, not so long ago, that if you wanted to dress in local designs or with the environment in mind you’d end up looking like a church-basement yoga instructor or decked out in a tartan muumuu. Well, you’re lucky, fashion-conscious students: It’s a great time to move to this city […]
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Inside Haliwood
It’s a little bit shocking how many movies have been made in and around Halifax. When you consider the geography, especially: We’re a long way off from the traditional movie-making centres of Toronto, New York and Los Angeles. A Toronto producer used to say, “If it’s being made here, there’s something wrong with it,” and […]
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Homecoming
CBC.ca reports: Olympic poll says Canadians happy with athletes, China and TV When rower Krista Guloien led a contingent of 100 Canadian Olympians returning from Beijing down the escalator at Vancouver International Airport Monday she found a country more than satisfied with how the Summer Games turned out.” “Oh, yeah? Was that poll conducted by […]
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Kick-Ass!
The Olympics end on a hilariously sad and pathetic note when Cuba’s Angel Matos deliberately kicked a referee smack in the face after he was disqualified in a bronze-medal match, for taking too much injury time. He got pissed, pushed a judge, THEN pushed and kicked referee Chakir Chelbat, from Sweden. THEN Matos spat on […]
