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Love/Sex 2025 ❤️🍆🍑

Whoopee-doo, it’s the Mercury‘s LOVE/SEX Issue (available in more than 500 spots around town)! Including the Mercury‘s Sex Survey results, your reader valentines, hot ‘n’ horny food, and MORE.
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Submit a FREE Mercury Reader’s Valentine for Your Sweetie!

Or friend, or sex pal, or pet… that’s up to you!
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Are you in love? In lust? In a complicated situationship that started because of a drunken and convenient New Year’s Eve kiss, but now you’re ready to take things to the next level by publicly declaring your adoration in the permanency of newsprint? Good news, the Mercury‘s reader Valentines are back, and you still have […]

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THE TRASH REPORT: All’s Fair In Love and Trash

Ready to believe in love? Then don’t read this compendium of recent celebrity breakups!
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[Read all of the articles in our Love/Sex issue HERE! Looking for a print copy? Look at this handy-dandy map!—eds.] What’s happening, hot stuffs? Welcome to this very special Trash Report for our LOVE/SEX issue. Some may say that love is a many-splendored thing. Others may say: love is a bitch. If you’re down and out […]

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Calling All Lovebirds: It’s the Mercury’s LOVE/SEX Issue!

It’s the most romantic (and horny!) time of the year.
Avatar photo Wm. Steven Humphrey

[Read all of the articles in our Love/Sex issue HERE! Looking for a print copy? Look at this handy-dandy map!—eds.] Get ready for the most UN-shocking revelation of your life: I think about sex… A LOT. And I think about love, too… also A LOT. However, it’s not just for the obvious reasons. While I […]

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The Mercury’s 2025 SEX SURVEY Results!

The numbers don’t lie: Portland is having A LOT of sexy, fun time!
Avatar photo Wm. Steven Humphrey

[Read all of the articles in our Love/Sex issue HERE! Looking for a print copy? Look at this handy-dandy map!—eds.] Let’s begin with one absolutely accurate and irrefutable fact: Portland is home to the sexiest people in the woooooorld! Why am I so confident in the above statement? Because I’ve been studying the results of the […]

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Demystifying Sex Work with Elle Stanger

The Portland sex educator schools us on the definition of sex work as well as its misconceptions.
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[Read all of the articles in our Love/Sex issue HERE! Looking for a print copy? Look at this handy-dandy map!—eds.] Elle Stanger is a certified sex educator, stripper, writer, podcaster, and sex worker. She’s spent the last 20 years in the adult entertainment industry and is now certified through the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors, […]

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STREET VIEW: Love and Bicycles

How Portland’s bike scene facilitates romance in the age of dating apps and loneliness. 
Avatar photo Taylor Griggs

[Read all of the articles in our Love/Sex issue HERE! Looking for a print copy? Look at this handy-dandy map!—eds.] When Carey Booth and Jack Coleman met in the spring of 2023, neither of them had any inkling of their future together. Both were in their mid-60s, retired, and single, but they were in different […]

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A Cozy Season (S)lowdown

Self-care tips for wintering (beyond switching on your SAD lamp).
Avatar photo Janey Wong

[Read all of the articles in our Love/Sex issue HERE! Looking for a print copy? Look at this handy-dandy map!—eds.] It’s winter in the Pacific Northwest, which, let’s face it, is a rough time for many of us. The glitz of the holidays has faded into the annals of yesteryear. This time of year, many of […]

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Reading the Waves Fucks

Lidia Yuknavitch’s newest nonfiction celebrates the body, in all its slippery, squishy glory.
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[Read all of the articles in our Love/Sex issue HERE! Looking for a print copy? Look at this handy-dandy map!—eds.] The writer Garth Greenwell once wrote about attending a lecture at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and hearing a writer say that an ideal sex scene would be a single sentence “they sat down on the sofa…” […]

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Food: Horny vs Not Horny

The ultimate list of horny and un-horny things to eat—and where to find them locally!
Avatar photo Andrea Damewood

[Read all of the articles in our Love/Sex issue HERE! Looking for a print copy? Look at this handy-dandy map!—eds.] Horniness (horny) is like Newton’s Third Law of Motion (not horny): For every thing that’s horny, there’s an equal and opposite thing that isn’t.  Food is not my kink—particularly after my fateful attendance at the 2006 […]

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