Love
We Went To An Outback Love Hunt
With 89 percent of Australians living in cities, we’re the most urbanised country in the world. But with most of our population crammed into cities, you have to feel for the other 11 percent. That’s where B&S or bachelors and spinsters balls come in...
An Open Letter to the Guy I Went on Two Dates with and Blew Off
The first time we met, for two seconds at a party, I already suspected I wouldn’t be attracted to you. I remember thinking, His head looks really, really heavy. You have a large head. Also, you suck at boobplay.
Watch the Trailer for the New Spike Jonze Film, 'Her'
Our buddy Spike Jonze has a new film coming out, and it looks weird, beautiful, heartbreaking, and any other adjectives you would use to describe a movie about a sad man's romantic relationship with a piece of female artificial intelligence. Judging...
I Have Dated Several Crack Dealers
Crack dealers approach me. I'm not chasing them down. It's not like I said to myself, “I'm going to date crack dealers now!” But when you meet one, you meet a lot of others. And then you start dating. It's kind of boring. They always want to chill at...
I Went to a Gay Rodeo, and Now I Want to Bone Cowboys
I never liked rodeos, because I had never experienced the rugged masculinity of the true rural cowboy. But after a day of chatting with some gay horse riders at the Alberta Rockies Gay Rodeo Association's rodeo, the sex appeal of the cowboy became...
Love Tips with Donny Benét: Getting Serious
Funk master and world class lover Donny Benét continues his step-by-step guide to everlasting love this week by walking you through the tricky follow up to the perfect first date.
Reality TV and the Selling of Love
The love The Bachelorette constantly references isn’t recognizable because it’s love as panacea—the idea that love itself, not the thing you love, not the goodness love inspires in you, will set you free and save you from your shit job and...
Love Tips With Donny Benet: On the Date
Last week in Love Tips, Italo disco funk musician Donny Benet guided us from the delicate art of securing a date through to the even more delicate art of extracting said date from her mom and dad’s house. This week he shows us what a romantic night out...
Love Tips With Donny Benet: The First Date
Living a life of sophistication doesn’t come easy for everyone. Along the way I’ve been given a few tips on the art of sophistication by many wise Mediterranean men and have taken it upon myself to modernise them for the 21st century lover.
Nick Gazin's Comic Book Love-In #89
Dear Comic Lovers : My name is Nicholas Gazin, and I love comics. Approximately once a week I write a column in which I cover comics, art, illustration, and nerd interest and review some books. My last two columns for VICE were photo blogs about art...
Friends
Friendship is a constantly self-renewing frontier of human relationships, a Wild West of emotional and temporal adventure times. The stuff of great friendships applies to kindergarteners sharing a snack as much as it does to Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks...
Slow Porn: Cindy Gallop's Quest to Blow Up Internet Sex
With Make Love Not Porn, Cindy Gallop wants to create a porn counterpoint so people get the difference between real sex and artificial entertainment, to reprogram the porn industry to reflect real world sex, thereby incorporating women's desires and...