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Board games

Ah, life on the Canadian National Snowboard team. It’s waking up in the French Alps, and hanging out at the most chi-chi of European ski resorts. It’s photo-ops and media sessions. It’s making friends with fellow athletes from Austria, Finland and Japan. It’s personal trainers and top-line medical care. It’s, it’s… “It’s a lot of […]

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Hot type

I’m 35. I’m single. You’d think those two facts together wouldn’t be terribly profound; they’re certainly not unusual, but it does feel like a strange place in which I find myself, and I’ve gone to lengths to change this situation. A year ago I was living with a woman. We were talking about having a […]

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Savage Love wextra

Last week you wrote this about your readers’ responses to WILLIE and FS: “I find it odd that no long letters arrived laying out what FS was doing wrong. Is it always the man’s fault, I wonder? If something is going wrong in a couple’s sex life, the man must be to blame?” I wanted […]

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Just say oooooooh!

In French, it’s “la petite mort,” or “little death.” Plenty of euphemisms, but not a lot of understanding about what happens to our bodies during a toe-curling orgasm, or how sexuality connects with other body systems, including our brains. A mini orgasmic industry exists in North American culture, predominantly associated with the male pursuit of […]

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Up in smoke

There are a few really good free things in this town. At least two are offered by Capital Health’s Addiction Services. The first is the free nicotine patch and gum you can get through their Tobacco Intervention program. The second is auricular acupuncture. If you’re addicted to a drug, let’s say nicotine, it’s very, very […]

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