Dear Ask Hole,I’m afraid to talk to other human beings, but I know absolutely nobody in town. How do I make friends?Easy: 1. Head to a karaoke night. 2. Do a truly rippin’ rendition of “The Boys Are Back In Town.” If it does indeed truly rip, literally everyone will think you’re cool and the night […]
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Is there a non-creepy way to ask someone out when they’re working?
Hey Ask Hole, I’ve got a major crush on the barista at my local coffee shop. I know it’s part of the job to be friendly—and I remember how gross it was when dudes would hit on me back when I was a server—but there’s a serious flirtatious vibe between us and I want to […]
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Love on the brain—Sex + Dating survey 2017
What is love? Baby, don’t hurt us, but Halifax has a dizzying array of answers to that question. Love is inconvenient, rare, fleeting, real, difficult and “fucking hard.” That’s all according to the record-breaking 1,200 responses to this year’s Sex + Dating survey. Below we’ve pulled together all of our personal favourite quotes and statistical […]
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The city’s best advice on love, sex and dating
This year our readers gave us a treasure trove of relationship advice in our annual Sex + Dating survey. So here’s a small sampling, Halifax. The best guidance we can give, and the hardest lessons we had to learn when it comes to romance. Happy Valentine’s Day. ❤️ ——— “Find someone that can support you […]
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What’s the kinkiest thing that’s ever happened to you?
“Kink” is a relative term. Some people’s kinkiest experience was being “a human cake at a fetish night” (seriously). Other people just masturbated “four times in one afternoon,” which might not seem as adventurous as being slathered in icing but is making us envious of having that much free time. What connects almost all the […]
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Halifax confesses all of its sexual secrets
“I was once face-timing with a friend. It ended up in an hour of webcam sex. He told me what to do (stripped, fingered myself, talked dirty) and I did it as he masturbated to me. We share the same best friends and to this day no one knows.” “I’ve always wondered what getting penetrated […]
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Keeping kink clean with the Society of Bastet
All kinds of kink are welcome at Society of Bastet, so long as you straighten up the dungeon before you leave. That means wiping down every flogger, tail by tail, with disinfectant and sanitizing the bottle-cap chair, one pinched metal lid at a time. Same goes for any other impact toy in the room—whips, paddles, […]
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The entrepreneurial advantage of webcam work
[Image-1] Leslie Greening isn’t your typical webcam model. Unlike the millions of one-sided setups in pop-up ads the internet over, Greening’s job as a “cam-panion” is a two-way street, on which she and her clients can watch each other. The Dartmouth resident started working for her Toronto friend’s new wewatchyoucam.com website back in June, after […]
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All of your biggest relationship regrets
It can be tough not to get caught up in the things (or people) we should’ve, could’ve, would’ve done, but didn’t. Multiple respondents to this year’s Sex+Dating survey regret breaking up at all, wishing that they’d tried harder or been more honest. “We lived in opposite ends of the city and we were both busy, […]
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My Snapchat boyfriend
[Image-1] My relationship with my Snapchat boyfriend is the most fulfilling—and in some ways, the most honest—relationship I’ve ever had. It’s also been going on for more than a year, which qualifies it as one of my longest relationships. It’s definitely the most sexually satisfying. What in the actual hell. Part of me wonders if […]
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What was your most awkward sexual encounter?
Strange things can happen when you take your clothes off with another person, that’s what we’ve learned from a) life and b) this year’s Sex & Dating survey. This year we asked our readers to share their most awkward sexual encounter to date—and they didn’t disappoint. Dicks of all shapes and sizes, surprise periods, hilarious […]
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Halifax dishes on its first kisses
Welcome to what’s possibly the only section of our Sex + Dating guide that is without a single mention of genitalia. How cute! Amongst the raunch and regret our survey-doers shared with us is this adorable collection of plain and simple romance. Maybe it was a little awkward, slightly slobbery and pretty forgettable–but every first […]