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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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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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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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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How Halifax spends its Valentine’s Day
You party animals! Most of you are…not doing a damn thing for Valentine’s Day. Zip, zilch, zero, according to Sex + Dating survey-takers. Maybe V-Day isn’t a big deal for most folks these days. Alternatively, perhaps you’re all losers. Who’s to say? Not us, we who will be spending Valentine’s Day queuing up outside the […]
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Halifax’s sexual soundtrack
This year’s Sex+Dating survey respondents had a variety of musical tastes (to say the least) to get down and dirty to, but some of you don’t enjoy rocking out during the deed at all. “I don’t listen to music when I have sex,” writes one reader. “You miss the signs and sounds your partner makes. That’s […]
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Halifax’s weirdest sex dreams
You all have terribly dirty minds and we love you for it. Here’s what readers of our Sex+Dating survey told us were their weirdest sex dreams. No judgement here. OK—maybe a little judgement, but we still love you. ——— “I was having sex with my roommate/best friend’s new boyfriend while she watched. I do not […]
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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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What’s the best gift a partner has ever given you?
If you’re still looking for a Valentine’s Day gift for your partner, you can always steal an idea from one of these folks. Asked to share your favourite gifts from lovers, readers of our Sex+Dating survey wrote in about both tangible and intangible presents. Judging from the answers, it looks like Haligonians are pretty good […]
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How did you meet your current partner?
Does it come down to fate, Tinder or a combination of the two? When we asked readers “What’s the best way to meet people?” 41 percent of Sex+Dating survey respondents said “through friends,” followed by mutual hobbies/interests and dating apps/sites. In true Halifax fashion, some of you found love at a bar or a music festival. […]
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When did you know it was over?
Relationships sometimes last forever, but, let’s be honest, they usually do not. How does one tell if it’s time to move on? “Every single time my bf starts fucking other girls is a good sign it’s over,” advises one Coast reader. When they cheated was a very common answer for when this year’s Sex + […]