Everyone who loves sugar knows that chocolate on Valentine’s Day makes for a great gift. But if you’re really trying to impress your favourite chocolate-lover on February 14, you can’t just pick up the first bar or box of sweets (or any, to be quite honest) that you find on the grocery store shelf. Instead, […]
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Dine Around brings people out to local restaurants (and restaurants home to people)
Wednesday morning in Nova Scotia, Shubenacadie Sam saw her shadow, meaning another six weeks of winter. There are also another couple weeks of COVID restrictions, which will last until February 14 at the earliest. It’s not great news in an already-slow time for restaurateurs. “January, February and even March to some degree is a slow […]
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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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SHOP THIS: The Valentine’s Edition
First you were running late on all of your Valentine’s Day gestures, then the snow storm hit and you didn’t leave your blanket fort for the entirety of Wednesday. Now you need physical proof you love your loved one, and it’s down to the wire. Lucky for you, Inkwell Modern Handmade Boutique (2011 Brunswick Street) […]
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Dating while trans
I’m transgender, which is to say I’ve had my sex misidentified at birth. There are a lot of stereotypes about trans people, especially trans women and girls. People will say we’re “a male that becomes female,” or a “crossdressing male,” which makes dating a bit difficult. Trans women are often seen in the dating world […]
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Snow storm cleanup dicking over Valentine’s Day plans
Getting dumped on Valentine’s Day sucks, but getting dumped on by the blizzard that shut down Atlantic Canada this week is making it difficult for couples that do want to celebrate their love. Brian George and his fiance had booked Halifax Transit’s Access-A-Bus for their dinner reservations tonight at enVie in the north end. But […]
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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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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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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 […]