Oregon is rain and evergreens, coffee shops and trailheads, a big city on the Willamette and a whole other world east of the Cascades. It's an easy place to love and a tricky place to date — the pool in any one town is never very big, and the disclosure conversation is the same hurdle it is everywhere. The Heeps removes it. Everyone here is living with herpes, so you start from understanding instead of explaining.
Join The Heeps freePortland gets most of the attention, but Oregon is bigger than one city: the Willamette Valley's college towns, the coast's small harbor towns, and the high desert east of the mountains each have their own pace. In Portland the apps are crowded and a little performative; in the smaller towns, the pool is thin and everybody seems to know everybody. Either way, telling a new person about your status is the part nobody looks forward to. The Heeps exists so that the disclosure conversation stops deciding your love life.
Instead of swiping through apps where you have to decide when — and whether — to tell someone, you join a community where that question is already answered. Your profile is visible only to other logged-in members. Search engines never see it. Your status is yours to share, on your terms, when you're ready.
The state's largest city, on the Willamette River under Mount Hood's shadow. Portland members are varied and independent — coffee-shop regulars, cyclists, food-cart fans, and people who moved here for the rain and stayed for the weird. The city's neighborhoods make first dates easy: a coffee, a food cart, a walk along the river.
Home to the University of Oregon, with a laid-back, outdoorsy, track-town soul. Eugene is smaller and friendlier than Portland, and its members skew toward students, teachers, and folks who like their weekends on a trail or a river. A farmers-market morning makes a good first date.
The capital, in the middle of the Willamette Valley between Portland and Eugene. Salem is steadier and more affordable, with a real community feel — a good middle ground, and a good meeting point for the whole valley.
East of the Cascades, in the high desert, with sunshine, breweries, and a mountain-town pace. Bend has grown fast, and its members skew outdoorsy — skiing, rafting, hiking — with a downtown that's easy to meet in.
Outside the big four, members are in Corvallis, Medford, Beaverton, Ashland, Hillsboro, and towns along the coast and out in eastern Oregon. Distance search lets you set how far you're willing to look.
Oregon's smaller towns are warm, but everybody knowing everybody else's business is the flip side — and in a state where college towns and tight-knit communities overlap, word travels fast. The Heeps was built around one idea: your health information is yours.
1. Join free at theheeps.com — pick a username, add a photo if you like, and say a little about yourself. 2. Browse Oregon members — search by city or distance. 3. Say hello — message anyone, free. 4. Meet on your terms — coffee, a walk, a hike. You decide the pace.
There is no algorithm deciding who you're allowed to talk to and no paywall between you and a reply.
Yes. No paywalls to read or send messages. The site runs on a trust and privacy rank system instead of charging members.
Yes. Your profile is only visible to logged-in members, and you control what you share. The Heeps never sells your data and never shows your profile to search engines.
Yes. Oregon members are across Portland, Eugene, Salem and Bend. Search by city and distance to find people near you.
Everyone on The Heeps is living with herpes, so the disclosure conversation that is stressful everywhere else is already understood here. You share details on your own terms.
Plenty of members are outside Portland — Eugene, Salem, Bend, Corvallis, Medford, and the coast and eastern Oregon too. Search by your city and set your distance to what you're comfortable with; the rest-of-Oregon community is bigger than it looks from the outside.
You don't have to explain yourself here. You just have to show up.
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