The Coast sits down with Martha Paynter to talk about abortion on the big screen. From drawn-out, dramatic representations to quick and empowering montages—set to “Silent Night”—Paynter shares her thoughts on seven noteworthy examples of abortion on TV and in the movies. “How many billion labours and births have we seen on screen? There are […]
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Sex with a prejudicial interest
QI’m a man from a very liberal background. A girl I started dating—from a similar background—recently mentioned she has “a thing for Black guys.” She also met my best friend, a man of Korean descent, and commented she found him handsome despite not typically being attracted to Asian guys. The position that I’ve always held […]
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Sex and the curious shopper
Q I’m a straight cis woman in my early 40s and a single mother. I have not dated or hooked up with anyone in years. While I miss dating, the biggest issue right now is that my sex drive is off the charts. While watching porn and masturbating once my child goes to sleep helps, […]
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No more booty smooshing: A vow of celibacy in 2019
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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20 cringe-worthy quotes from Halifax dates
We asked Haligonians the most cringe-worthy thing someone had ever said to then on a date, and are still squirming reading your answers. Somehow, 65% of our survey respondents said they’d had sex on a first date and 85% said they’d never skipped out on a bad date and yet, these Smooth Operators walk among […]
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10 go-to fantasy scenarios from Halifax sexperts?
Our survey respondents (on average) masturbate one to three times a week, 30 percent of them call their current sex lives “pretty hot” and an adventurous 4% have joined the mile high club. We asked folks to get more specific and break down their biggest fantasies for us—here are some of the stand-outs. ———————————————————————————————————————————————— “Hermoine […]
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Sharing nudes: Advice for all the Tony Clements out there
On Tuesday, November 7, amid the Ameri- can midterm election results starting to roll in, Conservative MP Tony Clement issued a statement admitting to sharing nude images online with a person other than his wife. This came as no shock to many twenty-something women who quickly took to Twitter to share stories of creepy Instagram […]
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I’d like to tell you about my gang-bang
Most people keep their kinks, fetishes, and fantasies private. Understandably! It’s socially taboo to be loud and proud about one’s sexual appetite. If I fantasized about finding the perfect coconut cream pie I might visit different restaurants, write reviews or write a blog. I’d enlist the support of my peers asking if they’d ever had […]
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Après pill, the storm
Q I’m a 27-year-old woman living on the east coast. I’ve been sexually active and on birth control since I was 16—almost always on the pill. I recently switched to the NuvaRing, which I had a bad reaction to: I had no libido at all and extreme mood swings/bouts of depression I could not live […]
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Coast 25: 46 of the weirdest things we’ve ever published
The prophet in Clayton Park Bill Deagle says he knows things they don’t want you to know about 9/11, the Oklahoma City bombing and other government secrets. Now he lives in suburban Halifax, with an internet radio broadcast and orders from god to get the truth out there. Celine Dion’s cancelled Halifax show After the […]
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Hardcore research: Results from our annual Sex + Dating survey
As Carly Rae Jepsen commanded, let’s cut to the feelings. Just in time for Valentine’s Day, it’s The Coast’s annual Sex + Dating Survey. Over 1,200 of you took the time to spill all your romantic fantasies and sexy secrets in this year’s results. Nearly half of those respondents were women, between the ages of […]
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What inaccurate sex myth did you believe for far too long?
Between public health education in schools and Google Dot Com it’s a wonder anyone these days could grow up believing old wive’s tales or playground gossip about sex. But that wasn’t always the case, as these answers to our annual Sex + Dating survey reveal. “People didn’t have sex after 50.” “Oh man, up until […]