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Let's be honest.
Publishing articles about sex, like engaging in the act itself, doesn't happen as often as we'd like. When we published our first Willamette Week sex issue two years ago, we planned to make it an annual event. But 1996 was a big election year, and after hearing a bunch of paunchy politicians talk about the corporate kicker and property-tax exemptions, we weren't feeling very sexy.

Sex Marginalia:

Marsupial mice have sex for up to 12 hours at a time.

A circumcised heterosexual man is 1.33 times more likely to receive oral sex than an uncircumcised one.

In nine days, one man could produce enough sperm to fertilize all of the world's reproductively mature women--approximately two billion.

The blue whale has the largest penis, about 10 feet long.
Nelson Rockefeller died during sex.

Church is the most unlikely place to meet partners.
 

Marginalia Compiled by:
Ellen Dorr and
Christina Melander
Sources:
Glamour magazine, September 1997; Harpers Magazine, August 1997; The Kinsey Institute New Report on Sex, June M.Reinisch, PhD with Ruth Beasley, MLS; Sex in America, Robert T. Michael, John H. Gagnon, Edward O. Laumann and Gina Kolata; The Social Organization of Sexuality, Edward O. Laumann, John H. Gagnon, Robert Michael and Stuart Michaels; Why Is Sex Fun?  by Jared Diamond.

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This summer, our brains are back on the erotic track as we present our second (almost) annual sex issue. It comes just in time to take advantage of the lingering sultry nights and prepare for those long rainy days. Besides, since the kids haven't yet started school, they're more likely to see this paper lying around and read about lingerie models, women's sex fantasies, erotic books and virtual sex. Which will be a great opener for that discussion you've been meaning to have with them.

So enjoy our second sex issue, and be assured that we won't let another two years go by before we publish a third.

Here are the results of our efforts:

Private Dancer
A lingerie model’s lessons in fantasy fulfillment

Love Potion No. 9
Can bottled pheromones take a noted love cynic from curmudgeonly to cuddly? You’d be surprised.
by Marty Smith

That Porno Book I’m not writing
A Portland journalist bemuses friends and family when she helps write a book about women’s sexual fantasies.
by Suzie Boss

The Gardener of Desire
Sex therapist Wendy Maltz helps women understand, and even shape, their sexual fantasies.
An interview with Wendy Maltz by Suzie Boss

Extraordinary Appetites
The way to a woman’s heart--or at least her bed--may be through her stomach.
by Audrey van Buskirk

Bright Lights, Rip City
If you want to be a Portland sex symbol, you’ve got to learn the moves.
by Jacquelin McCarthy

Is it Real or is it Netsex?
Sex on the Internet, like in real life, has its ups and downs.
by Richard Martin

Sex Effects
Two books study the changes wrought in various forms of sexuality during recent years.
by Steffen Silvis