Simone Paget
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SEX FILES: Coming clean about your partner’s hygiene
If you’ve ever suffered through a bout of chin acne following a steamy hookup or awoken at a lover’s house with a mane that felt like it had been dipped in a grease trap, you may have experienced what the internet is calling “boyfriend air.”

SEX FILES: Canadian daters are prioritizing mental health
When I first started dating after ending a long-term relationship, I kept the fact that I have an anxiety disorder to myself – at least for the first few dates. I saw it as privileged information that only trusted people were privy to. That was a decade ago. Somewhere around the 2016 United States Presidential election and the advent of folks hoarding toilet paper during “unprecedented times” all pretenses fell away.

PAGET: Vacation sex will improve intimate relationships
When I lived with my ex-partner, we’d regularly spend a weekend in a local hotel, just because. We lived in downtown Toronto and both had demanding careers that kept us distracted during the week. As a result, our sex life suffered. I’d look forward to those weekends when we’d steal away to the suburbs, stay in a hotel and reconnect. Without the noise of the city, ever-present reminders of work and the tedious stresses of daily life (think: unfolded laundry and dirty dishes in the kitchen sink), we were able to relax and have better sex than we did at home.
