While reporting this week on the abstinence-only sex ed in Oregon’s schools, I slipped into a YouTube spiral watching a handful of the hundreds of music videos about the virtues of abstinence. YouTube is bursting with ballads made on home video cameras and titled things like “True Love Waits” and “Addicted to Abstinence.” But the […]
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Savage on Larry King: “Bristol Palin is the Wrong Messenger”
Dan Savage appeared on Larry King Live last night to debate Sarah Brown, the CEO of the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancies—especially in regards to Bristol Palin’s announcement that “sexual abstinence for teens is realistic.” Check it out over lunch. The ten minute conversation is unsurprisingly illuminating, smart, and it’s always a […]
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Finally, a Better Way to Cleanse my Anal Canal
OH, BOY! Look what I just ordered for the Mercury office! It’s called the “Pure Stream Lotus Seat Toilet,” and it’s the newest thing in anal cleansing toilet systems—but OH! It’s so much more! Please watch the following informative and EROTIC video to see how Pure Stream can robotically perform the same job our interns […]
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“I Never Chose To Do Anything I Didn’t Want To Do”
Wow. Today was the first morning I actually stopped what I was doing, sat down and listened with full attention to the discussion on Oregon Public Broadcasting’s Think Out Loud. This morning’s show featured two sex workers — a female prostitute and a male stripper — just talking frankly about their jobs. It was really […]
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The Miracle of Mannequin Childbirth
Now a lot of people are going to claim that this video is NSFW. However! I believe that mannequin childbirth is a beautiful, and more importantly, COMPLETELY NATURAL thing. However, don’t watch this if you are creeped out by actual human childbirth, childbirth simulators, rubber sex dolls, long awkward silences, medical procedures, and especially forceps […]
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Beau Breedlove. Fantasy Adult Video. Tomoz.
Your reminder: 5pm. West Burnside, up near PGE park. I’ll be getting my copy of Unzipped signed, in addition to getting myself sexually intimidated, I expect, by a man born on June 25, 1987. BREEDLOVE: WAS FREAKED OUT BY PEREZ HILTON… I’ve been listening to this morning’s Beau Breedlove interview on KUFO’s website. “He looks […]
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“Krabby Patty” is the new “Vagina”?
Red alert! Teens make sex jokes! Up in suburban Washington, a high school student body government is making headlines for printing t-shirts covered with ridiculous, possibly sexual innuendos. According to the Seattle Times, as part of a “Battle of the Sexes” week the student body printed up shirts with slogans for each class — Freshman […]
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Douchebaggery
I’m posting this under “SEX” as in “how to avoid it.” Oh yeah, and requisite advance apologies if you have already seen this elsewhere on the ‘nets. I don’t usually go looking for douchebags online, but occasionally they find me.
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Mercury Sex Survey Results 2009
Featuring… Sexy Ethics!
Pullout: Sex Survey Results 2009
Are you sexily ethical? Let’s find out!
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Things I Am Obsessed With (Part Three of a 758 Part Series)
The Girls Next Door season finale was last night, and for those of you who missed it (bless your hearts, your life is empty) I will recap it: Bridget left the mansion, for what she claims will only be four to five months, to host a Travel Channel show called Bridget’s Beaches. We all know […]
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SEXY
I know, you are pure sex. Just looking at you inspires inappropriate thoughts and desires in just about everyone you pass. Except for blind people. They just smell it. That’s why we here at the Mercury are having a little photo contest (details here) to find the sexiest boy and sexiest girl in town to […]
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Sexy Biscuits!
Don’t forget: As you embark on all your sexy weekend plans (like Battlestar Galactica at the Baghdad—total orgy), bring a dang camera!! That way you can enter all your sexy friends and crushes in our Sexy Portland contest! If your subject is chosen, they will be featured in a professional photo spread in the March […]