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Life After Speed Dating

It is Saturday evening, two weeks after you conquered the butterflies and tried speed dating. You are snazzing yourself up for your date with Peter, Speed Date #8. And asking yourself how on earth you managed to get yourself into this position, wondering what to do next, because, let’s be honest, these are unusual circumstances. You are about to go out with a guy whom you hardly know, except what you can learn in three to ten minutes – that he is Speed Dater #8, likes the colour red, has two brothers and one sister, and is an accountant. Breathe… The Read More →

Speed Dating Talk

by Camilla Lloyd Have you ever been played the dating game where the other person answers only in one word answers? It is not that much fun. “So, how are you?” you ask, a little nervously, because the beginning of a date is always the most awkward. “Fine.” “Great…So, what do you do?” “Accountant.” By the end of the evening, you are either staring suicidally into your cup of coffee or engaged in a monologue with yourself about the weather, the venue, and a niggling pain in your toe. Speed dating, fortunately, means that the pain is distributed evenly, and so no one person has to be Read More →

Meeting and Dating Positive People Online

Ben Sassman The Positive Connection website hiv positive people ownerby Linda Kunene Ben Sassman What if you had a secret? A secret so big that, when revealed, it would make your girlfriend/boyfriend pull away from you in fear of contamination. This would be a hurtful experience. However, this is what faces many HIV positive people. To help HIV positive people find an ideal partner who shares or accepts their positive status, Ben Sassman launched The Positive Connection in September 2002, a website dedicated to online Read More →