Opinion

How I almost ruined Christmas with a vibrating egg

Who doesn’t masturbate with a new sexy toy in their mother’s basement on Christmas Eve?

By David Benjamin Tomlinson

Opinion

When sex work is unsexy (Part 4)

He stares at me, his mouth hanging open

By Devon Delacroix

Opinion

What happens when your pseudonym gets in the way of your sex life?

Some people think that I’m always down for sex because of my column. But I’m not Mike Miksche

By Mike Miksche

Opinion

How my love of an ’80s musical made me the ultimate Xanadude

Seeing Xanadu again 37 years later brought back fond memories of my gay adolescence

By Tony Correia

Opinion

When sex work is unsexy (Part 3)

The clock can be your best friend — or your worst enemy

By Devon Delacroix

Opinion

How piss play helped me get over childhood shame

My relationship with piss has always been fraught with negative associations. Now it’s one of my greatest forms of intimacy

By Katie Sly

Opinion

Earning my red hankie — two fists at a time

How ‘riding the chariot’ taught me to love fisting

By Kevin Moroso

Opinion

When sex work is unsexy (Part 2)

Once the water is warm, he pushes me roughly under the shower and begins soaping me up

By Devon Delacroix

Opinion

Japanese rope bondage taught me that kink bonds last forever

A kink partnership never really ends — you take the skills you learned into new relationships

By Katie Sly

Opinion

Same-sex love in the saddle: the homosexual world of the American frontier

Men in the 19th-century frontier had wild dances, found love and took part in bachelor marriages

By Michael Lyons

Hard Labour

When sex work is unsexy (Part 1)

He roughly grabs my ass. His mouth is open wide, like he’s trying to take a bite out of my face

By Devon Delacroix

Power

LGBT Canadians now eligible for current and retroactive tax break on reproductive treatments

People who had fertility treatments as far back as 2007 can ask for a re-assessment by the end of 2017

By Dylan C Robertson

Opinion

Why it may be time for me to kill Mike Miksche (Part 2)

I’ve often felt I needed to choose between my ethnicity and my sexuality

By Mike Miksche

Arts

Is love born or taught? Maybe both

A UBC philosopher’s new book tackles biology, society and the future of love

By Niko Bell

Opinion

Why it may be time for me to kill Mike Miksche (Part 1)

I chose to use a pseudonym for “Hole and Corner” because I worried about my Lebanese-Muslim family reading about my sex life. Maybe I was wrong

By Mike Miksche

Opinion

Why do we stigmatize STIs like syphilis, but accept other illnesses as normal?

The flu is a pain. Aunt Phyllis is just an inconvenience

By Kevin Moroso

Opinion

A client wanted me to hold a knife to his throat (Part 2)

He’s given me more details for this role-play than any of my other clients, but the more precisely laid out the scene, the more ways it can go wrong

By Devon Delacroix

Love & Sex

Will my Latin American mother cry tears of joy at my queer wedding?

My mother had no problem with other people’s fluid sexualities, but she had absolutely no desire for her daughter to be anything but straight

By Ludmila Leiva