Category: Lifestyle

Rainbow Counsellor Elijah Luke Michel is here to help with your problems. I’m finding things tough at the moment. I am 18 years old and have just come out as lesbian to my parents. My dad doesn’t seem too worried, but my mum has retreated into her room and I often hear her crying. I […]

It’s a lonely winter’s night and you are bored with what’s on TV. You have an ache; a desire. You need the touch of another man. What can you do? express knows how you feel, and we’ve got the answer. Get cruising! There are quite a few cruising options around New Zealand – Bodyworks in […]

Intimate relationships can be tricky to navigate let alone when you’re transgender and your body doesn’t match your identity. Elijah Michel set out to find trans men and women who have experienced intimacy within relationships and those who are still looking for love. We become vulnerable when we enter a physically intimate relationship. Along with […]

This month we are taking a close look at the bane of some men’s lives, and an ailment that younger people believe will never happen to them, Erectile Dysfunction (ED).  The problem with this particular health issue is that men don’t talk about it in the hope that the problem will just go away. It […]

Steven Oates scrutinises the prevalence of heteronormative labels in homosexual relationships and askes the question: Why are bottoms considered more feminine than tops? I once heard a straight guy say “you’re only queer if you take it.” Of course what he was really saying was that as long as you give it, then you’ll retain […]

Gone are the days of porn star spit tactics; express thinks finding the right lubricant for you is the most important step you can take in improving your sex life. Lube connoisseur Amy Jane Bedwell demystifies the slippery world of this revolutionary sex aid in the Insider’s Guide to Lube!   Water Based Lubricants Pro: […]

We have a lot of people contact us to ask questions about their health, be it for weight loss, healthier hair, skin or nails, cramps, mental focus or stress. This month I wanted to pick on an increasingly worrying topic: sleep. Every year I hear more and more people talking about not being able to […]

Growing up at the bottom of the world, I didn’t experience the true pleasures of champagne until I spent a summer in France’s Côte des Blancs, mere miles from the sumptuous offerings of the Grand Cru village of Avize. I’d spent my adult life pretending to enjoy the acrid effervescence of New Zealand’s liquor store […]