Dating can be difficult at the best of times: Where else are you thrust into conversation with a near-stranger while both of you are trying to decide, in real time, whether you want to hook up, get married and have kids, or never see each other again? It’s a miracle that any one of us […]
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Your definitive guide to a successful first date in Halifax
Anyone who dates in Halifax knows just how small this city is. Looking for love in the HRM requires patience, openness and the ability to throw your dignity right out the window. It’s humbling and often demoralizing, especially the first date. But good things don’t happen unless you try, and and first dates are a […]
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Go ahead and confess a sexual secret you’ve never told anyone
The prompt on the Sex + Dating Survey is simple: “Confess a sexual secret that you’ve never told anyone else.” The responses are a kaleidoscope of Halifax’s passions and fears, brags and wishes. Maybe it’s because the survey is a truly safe space, anonymous and judgment-free, that people are willing to bare their sexual souls. […]
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Coming attractions: What Halifax wants to try next in sex
If you want to try having sex with multiple partners at the same time, you’re not alone. Or maybe you are alone, because it’s something you’d like to do, not what you’ve already done. Whatever. Let’s just say that lots of people would be up for getting down with lots of people. The top 100 […]
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Talk dirty to me: The results of The Coast’s 2023 Sex + Dating Survey
If there’s one thing Haligonians love more than sex, it might well be talking about it. And just as Halloween means candy and a Nor’easter means a cupboard full of storm chips, Valentine’s Week in Halifax can only mean one thing: It’s time for the results of The Coast’s annual Sex + Dating Survey. More […]
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Haligonians share the most cringe-worthy things they’ve said—and heard—during sex
Love is a language in itself, but sometimes that other language—the spoken word—fails us in our most intimate moments: With our pants around our ankles. Haligonians are a witty bunch (or we like to think so, anyway), but even the quickest of wits isn’t immune to the occasional bedroom blunder. Sometimes even a major one. […]
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Haligonians share their most awkward run-ins with exes
The Halifax peninsula is a small, small place: You never know who you’ll bump into when you’re fighting over fresh tomatoes at the Seaport Farmers Market or scarfing down a 2am poutine on Pizza Corner. More times than not, that compact coziness is a good thing—walkability! friends! chats with your neighbours!—until the moment it abso-friggin’-lutely […]
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Risking it all: This is how far Haligonians have gone for a hook-up
Love is in the air this month—and so, it seems, is pulling out all the stops to getting laid, according to Haligonians’ replies to our 2023 Sex + Dating Survey. More than 1,200 Coast readers took part in this year’s 15th annual survey—and dear God, some of you people are thirsty. Not, er, that there’s […]
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When the ’canes come
Editor’s note: This story was originally published on June 17, 2010. It has been edited to remove outdated information. Atlantic Canada is the last stop on the path of Caribbean-formed hurricanes, if they even make it this far. We will often see wet weather as the storms lose speed and strength and shuffle across the province. […]
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Your horoscope for the week March 31-April 6
HAPPY BIRTHDAY THIS WEEK TO Shawn Duggan, John Perkins, Gerard MacNeil, Julia-Simone Rutgers, Cathy Jones, Kate Sinclair and Mike Greatorex. to add, update or stop a birthday shoutout, email names, birth dates and/or changes to bday@thecoast.ca then click your sign to go to your horoscope aquarius aries cancer capricorn gemini leo libra pisces sagittarius […]
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Only for now
QI’m a 28-year-old queer woman. It’s been a while since I’ve been in a relationship, as it was impossible for me to make a physical or emotional connection with anyone after I was raped four years ago. I finally found a very, very, very nice fella. He’s 36 years old, and pretty basic. He’s a cis […]
