Q I’m a happily married woman. I have a great sex life with my husband of many years. He’s helped me discover things I didn’t know about myself sexually. The problem: Three years ago, my first love contacted me after 23 years. He was married at the time, although he didn’t want to be and […]
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Don’t be subject to “batshittery”
Q I’m 26, straight and male. I consider myself a socially progressive person, have been a vocal supporter of LGBT issues since high school and was president of my college Gay-Straight Alliance. Here’s my issue: I fully support the trans community. I have numerous friends in varying states of transition and I’m 100 percent behind […]
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New song: “Peter Kelly has got to go”
I have no idea what band sent The Coast this clip. For your listening enjoyment, click here.
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Dan’s tips for first-time doms
Q I’m 21 years old and in a monogamous relationship. I lost my virginity to my boyfriend, and it was a really great experience. I was drawn to BDSM even before I began having sex, and he’s been happily fulfilling my needs. However, he revealed fairly early on that he also enjoys being submissive during […]
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Occupy NS eviction: Who OKed the cowardly and shameful act?
I was asked to comment on CBC’s Newsworld today, and while at the Ceeb’s Bell Road studio, ran into Halifax mayor Peter Kelly. I proceeded to interview him about yesterday’s eviction of the Occupy Nova Scotia demonstrators. Listen to the first part of my interview here. Listen to the second part of my interview here. […]
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Never contact a truly crazy ex
Q I am marrying a man with two children, a boy and a girl, and we want to include his children in our wedding party. My best friend and maid of honour works as an escort. You and I agree that prostitution should be legal and that sex work shouldn’t be stigmatized, Dan, but the […]
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Truth & Reconciliation: Nelson Morris’ aunt’s letter
Today, at the Truth & Reconciliation Commission event in Halifax, Nelson Morris gave testimony before the commission, and had read into the record a letter his aunt had written before her death. Morris’ aunt had attended the Shubanacadie Indian Residential School from 1947 to 1952. I’m posting a recording of the letter being read; listen […]
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Truth and Reconsiliation: Iris Nicolas gives testimony
This is the testimony of Iris Nicolas, a native woman from New Brunswick who attended the Shubanacadie Indian Residential School. I came in after she began her testimony, but what I’ve recorded here is very moving. I also didn’t have time to get my proper recorder operating— I apologize the quality isn’t great on this. […]
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No-flogging rule is a silly ban
Q My boyfriend and I are in college and doing the long-distance thing until June 2013. Over the years, he’s granted me increasing amounts of freedom to be intimate with women— I’m female, and date women while we’re apart— but I still don’t have full autonomy. It’s much better than it used to be, but […]
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Ovulating makes me find you hot
Q I broke up with a girl who wasn’t hot enough for me. I tried my whole life to not be that kind of guy. I treated her carelessly because she wasn’t that important to me. I was self-indulgent and rude and disrespectful, and it made her cry. She’s perfectly attractive, but not in an […]
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No sex pictures without consent
Q I’m a college freshman. I thought that college would be the place to come out, but the sad fact is that college hasn’t changed anything. I’m still unable to admit my sexuality to my friends, teammates, classmates and hallmates. I have thought about joining the LGBT organizations, but those guys are too “out” for […]
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You will be able to have a sex life
Q I am an 18-year-old straight male. I have a hodgepodge of birth defects that affect my genitalia: severe hypospadias (my urethra—my piss slit—is at the base of my penis), micropenis (less than two inches) and anorchia (I was born without testes). I have never been naked around anyone else. Lately, my sex drive has […]
