…is finally out at the 150-plus dropofff points around Seattle. Subscribers should get their copies any day now.

The Humid Summer Sex Issue is our hottest-yet collection of essays, reviews, memoirs, and other delightful entertainments. Among them:

• Can orgasms save the world?
• The memoir of someone who used to be judgmental about strippers, then became one.
• A more upbeat version of the Sex-Role Mystery Date game, previously posted on this site.
• Some Midsummer Nights’ Sex Comedies, video recommendations from a time when on-screen skin was actually fun.
• Interviews with the operators of two DIY web-porn sites.
• “I Was Corrupted by the Monastery,” a teenage memoir of sex, drugs, and disco circa 1983.
• “Naked Croquet,” a fictional gay self-discovery saga.
• Our pal Donna Barr’s strategy for post-corporate survival: Become a Hunter-Gatherer.
• Some reasons why this down doesn’t suck, dammit!
• Strategies on embracing your inner devil.

Those in other locales or who don’t get out much can always subscribe, by following the instructions at this link.