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Due to overwhelming demand, the Mercury is pleased to extend the deadline for our crowd-pleasing and nethers-wetting SEX SURVEY for another week! Hilariously composed by Blogtown sex columnist Bri Pruett, the Mercury Sex Survey is a great way to learn how other people in Portland "do it"—and maybe get inspired to "do it" better yourself! Here's a letter we just received from a happy sex survey submitter.

I want to thank you for the Portland Mercury Sex Survey 2014! It started out as a stilted but playful interrogation of each other's sexual habits: laughing at how absurdly inapplicable some survey answers were; guessing what the other's answer would be; smirking after guessing right and loving it even more when we guessed wrong because that meant we learned a little more about each other.

But soon after my boyfriend of 3 years and I were prying the secret, deep down kink genres and tastes in porn out of each other that we had never talked about—I had even promised myself I'd never tell him about my secret "-phelia." We played sexy rounds of Hangman to coerce the kinks and -phelias out of each other that were too hard to say out loud at first.

After telling all, an astounding weight was lifted from my shoulders that I had never even realized was there and—as if by osmosis or some tricked-out kind of alchemy—quickly morphed into a raging boner on his end. Since then, sex has been so much more fun and just-plain sexier because we can both pull from each other's interests much more than before.

Anyway, I just wanted to say thanks. It was a great survey and really breached a divide between us that I never knew was there.

You've got a fan for life ;)

Lex

Want to "sex up" your life more? Whip off your pants (with a loved one or not) and fill out the MERCURY SEX SURVEY HERE! Deadline now extended to FRIDAY, OCT 31 AT MIDNIGHT!