Simone Paget

LATEST STORIES BY SIMONE PAGET

SEX FILES: What it's really like to join the Mile High Club

Sex on an airplane. Some of us have tried it. Some of us have merely fantasized about it. But is joining the Mile High Club really all it’s cracked to be?

December 2, 2019 Sex Files

SEX FILES: How to talk kink with your partner

Recently, I was having an after-work drink with a female friend when the conversation turned to our respective love lives. My friend leaned in a little closer and said, “I need your advice on something.”

November 25, 2019 Sex Files

How compatible are you with your partner?

When it comes to compatibility in a relationship, a new book suggests that we’ve been getting it all wrong.

November 18, 2019 Sex Files

When it comes to our sexual health, laughter just may be the best medicine

As George Bernard Shaw once said, “If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.”

November 11, 2019 Sex Files

Sex columnist Simone Paget learned more about sexual health from drag queens Trixie and Katya than she ever did from her high school sex ed teacher, Mrs. McMurtry

Chuffed for cuffing season

Now that the air has begun to cool and Halloween is behind us, it’s safe to say that we’re officially in the throes of cuffing season — the period of autumn and winter when perfectly happy singletons find themselves desiring to be “cuffed” or tied down by a serious relationship. Well, at least until spring rolls around.

November 4, 2019 Sex Files

GASLIGHTING: Is he playing with your mind?

It’s the year 2000. I’m 19 years old and I’m dating my boyfriend of the day.

October 28, 2019 Sex Files

Charles Boyer and Ingrid Bergman in the classic 1944 thriller, Gaslight. The movie shows all the classic tricks of gaslighting.

The LAT relationship: Living apart, but together

It’s been said before that the secret to a happy relationship is square footage. But what about completely separate dwellings?

October 21, 2019 Sex Files

The secret life of infidelity

A late night sext. A nude photo. Suspiciously excessive screen time. Whenever I hear real life stories of relationships torn apart by cheating (which, as a sex and relationship columnist is often), they usually have one thing in common: an indiscretion discovered via a smartphone.

October 15, 2019 Sex Files

Pubic hair: Life lessons about the bush

Wax it. Shave it. Love it. Hate it. Let it be. If I’ve learned anything over the past decade of dissecting modern relationships and sexuality, it’s that we spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about pubic hair. Considering it’s a personal choice that affects such a small piece of real estate, it’s absurd how nearly everyone has an opinion when it comes to hair down there.

October 7, 2019 Sex Files

CONDOM CRISIS: Where the rubber meets the road

With classes back in session, Canadian university students might want to consider brushing up on their safer sex knowledge.

September 30, 2019 Sex Files