Simone Paget
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SEX FILES: Ready, set - wait!
As of last Friday I am officially a double vaxxed single, ready to mingle. I celebrated the occasion with a night of utter debauchery – and by “debauchery” I mean I went to the new tiki bar in town with my one friend I’ve consistently seen during the pandemic and openly slathered myself in Purell immediately after – not one but TWO – people shook my hand (so, we’re shaking hands again? Really?)

SEX FILES: Pandemic has many thinking of getting back with the ex
The summer’s hottest dating trend is recycling your exes. I say this after spending an hour this morning trawling the internet for new photos of Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez. The Hollywood couple, who have rekindled their romance after almost 20 years, recently made their relationship Instagram official after Lopez posted photos of her and Ben celebrating her 52nd birthday aboard a yacht.

SEX FILES: When a good friendship leads to falling in love with each other
Hollywood has trained us to think of romance as a chemical reaction that happens when two strangers meet. While I’m a sucker for a good “meet cute” (in my fantasy, I bump into my future love in the lineup at my favourite taco truck and we strike up a conversation after we notice we’re both wearing similar vintage Prince T-shirts), a new study published in Social Psychological and Personality Science reveals that two-thirds of romantic relationships begin platonically.

SEX FILES: Sir, that's a vibrator
I’ll never forget the moment in the Toronto Pearson Airport security line when the gruff, male agent standing on the other side of the conveyor belt reached into my leopard print cosmetic case, pulled out my lipstick sized vibrator, held it between his gloved fingers and asked with what sounded like genuine curiosity, “What’s this?”

SEX FILES: Hot vaxx summer still in defrost mode
Summer of love. The return of sex. The Roaring Twenties. These are all phrases that have been used to describe our current moment in 2021. But for those of us who have experienced body changes during the pandemic, it can feel like our “Hot Vaxx Summer” is still in defrost mode.
