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People who choose abstinence, monogamy or sexual restraint are made to feel as though something is wrong with them. True sexual freedom should include the right not to participate.

Reflecting on relationships: Is it ‘just sex’?

True sexual freedom means having the right to not participate — without shame or judgment

When three is not a crowd

Polyamory is gaining traction as an ethical way to be romantically involved with more than one person.

Cupid’s flown the Tinder coop

Dating methods change – from matchmaking widows to app windows – but the reasons don’t.

At heart

Straight to the pimply point

Camilla Janse van Vuuren recalls her time at a speed dating event, which she describes as the modern version of a Jane Austen ball.

No country for young women

No country for young women

I’ve come to the conclusion that ours is not a country for young, single women, writes <b>Adriaan Basson</b>.

Love in a time of recession

What to do then if you are still semi-cash-strapped, single and sexless in the city?

Now you see him, now you don’t

My brother once told me that men will never break up with you because they are too terrified to see the snot en trane such rejection would surely elicit.

Where art thou, brother?

What happens when one does venture forth — bold, beautiful and determined to take on the big city?

Love hurts

Happily married Jabulani Mlotshwa envies the more relaxed dating rules of the younger generation.

The new currency of romance

Nigerians in their droves initiate love advances, set up meetings and search for soulmates — all by SMS, writes Adetokunbo Abiola.

Iraq has a new (but scorned) matchmaker

Young Iraqis in Baghdad are surfing the internet to search for life partners as violence takes its toll on traditional forms of socialising.