Declaring a year of celibacy feels ominous. Like I am punishing myself for not tidying up my life so I took away my toys…except I still have my toys. I haven’t lost my mind. I’m just trying something new. No sex, for a year. Can I even do this? This year for Valentine’s Day, instead […]
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Support the artists that create your fantasies
You’re probably a thief. If you’re not a thief, you have knowingly benefited from the work of another thief. Watch porn much? Maybe you aren’t a thief and you do buy your porn. Maybe you do support the creators whose content you’ve long enjoyed on Tumblr for free. Excellent! Keep paying for your smut. Changes […]
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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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Soulmates don’t have to be romantic partners
Conversations about soulmates bring up a lot of questions. Are soulmates even a thing? Do you get more than one soulmate? What if you live on opposite sides of the world? What if they die before you meet them? Most readers seem to believe in the concept, but those who responded to this year’s Sex […]
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’Ships start here
[Image-1] Halifax wants to lock it down. Go steady. Bring you home to meet mom, ask you to wear its letterman jacket, tag you in its relationship status and be totally OK farting in front of you. The Coast’s annual Sex + Dating survey revealed a lot—like, maybe too much—about the dating habits, desires and […]
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Here comes the Indie Wedding Social
A little snow (OK, a lot of snow) won’t stop Halifax’s Indie Wedding Collective from helping you say “I do.” Because of last Sunday’s storminess, it had to reschedule its Indie Wedding Social (Brewery Market, 1496 Lower Water Street)—a celebration of your vows, as well as local wedding vendors—to this Sunday, February 22. Aimed at […]
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Valentine’s Day must-do: tiny poems!
Local writer and poet (and occasional Coast contributor) Shannon Webb-Campbell has the ability to woo with only a few words. That’s obvious from one quick glance at her Twitter page (@shannonwc), which is all it took for Argyle Fine Art’s (1559 Barrington Street) Adriana Afford to recruit her to help fill a bunch of little […]
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A Completely Indulgent Post About Lemmy
I just watched the Lemmy movie and got the new Motorhead album in the mail. Combined, these two things reminded me that like matter, he is everywhere, and he cannot be created or destroyed. Everything that everyone says about him is true. You can be having the worst night in the world, but then your […]
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Love the Way We Love the Way We Love
Thank you to the Coast for this and to all the thoughtful people who contribute their small but meaningful brushes with love. We really do live in a good part of the world, and there really are a lot of good people here. There is a lot to love. I love Love the Way We […]
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Spoke style: Chic cycling photo shoot and accessories
David Byrne rocks the bike look. Earlier this week Holland and Belgium announced their joint bid to host the 2018 or 2022 FIFA World Cup. And they did so by sending six well-dressed men in fine tailored suits to make the announcement. Before you dismiss this as oh-so European, read our Riding Pretty story: chic […]
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No woman left behind
Q I need you to settle a dispute between my husband and me. We have been married for six years. We’re not terribly adventurous, but we’re not totally vanilla, either. However, there is one issue that is driving me insane: My husband constantly pesters me to have anal sex. We have tried it in the […]