501 - Are you having sex or is sex having you? A conversation with Dan Savage

Multiamory: Rethinking Modern Relationships

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Sexuality, Self-improvement, Relationships, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Education

4.9 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2024

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Dan Savage joins us today to talk about love, sex, non-monogamy, commitment, and much, much more! Dan Savage is a sex-advice columnist, a podcaster, an author, and has appeared on numerous television shows.“Savage Love,” Dan’s sex-advice column, first appeared in The Stranger, Seattle’s alternative weekly, in 1991. The column is now syndicated worldwide. Dan has published seven books.In 2006, Dan launched the Savage Lovecast, a weekly, call-in, sex advice podcast. It has 600,000 unique monthly downloads and 20,000 paying subscribers for premium “Magnum” content. It ranks consistently in the top ten Sexuality podcasts on Apple Podcasts.He created and curates the HUMP! Film Festival, a sex-positive showcase of dirty short films, now in its 18th year. HUMP! has become a national phenomenon selling tens of thousands of tickets, screening in over 50 cities across the United States and Canada and streaming worldwide.In 2010 Dan and his husband Terry Miller founded the It Gets Better Project. The IGBP has gathered tens of thousands of videos from people all over the world offering hope to LGBT kids. The book—It Gets Better: Coming Out, Overcoming Bullying, and Creating a Life Worth Living—was a New York Times best seller. In 2012 the It Gets Better Project was awarded an Emmy.Dan’s graphic, pragmatic, and humorous advice has changed the cultural conversation about sex, monogamy, gay rights, religiosity, and politics. Join our amazing community of listeners at multiamory.supercast.com. We offer sliding scale subscriptions so everyone can also get access to ad-free episodes, group video discussions, and our amazing Discord community.This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/multi and get 10% off your first month.Quality lube is essential for good sexual experiences. Try our absolute favorite, Uberlube and get 10% off plus free shipping with promo code MULTIAMORY Multiamory was created by Dedeker Winston, Jase Lindgren, and Emily Matlack.Our theme music is Forms I Know I Did by Josh and Anand.Follow us on Instagram @Multiamory_Podcast and visit our website Multiamory.com. We are a proud member of the Pleasure Podcasts network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	We're told when we're kids that we will grow up one day and have sex and the
0:06.7	reality is we grow up one day and sex has us. What is sex doing with us? Sex is
0:12.3	500 million years old? It built everything that lives. It built
0:17.9	us. It's building whatever comes after us. And we pretend like it's something that we
0:22.4	control and that we're in charge it's something that we control and that we're in charge of.
0:25.0	You're to limit the drama and chaos in our lives
0:27.0	or to keep it to a reasonable roar,
0:30.0	we need to find out how to channel it,
0:32.0	we need to figure out how to ride that beast.
0:34.4	Or it's riding us, really. Having a series of short-term relationships over the
0:38.3	course of your life that enrich it and create a network of friends and former lovers and occasional buckbodies and the current
0:45.5	like main squeeze that you're passionate about, that seems to me a very beautiful way to live.
0:56.0	Welcome to the multi-amory podcast. I'm Jace.
0:57.0	I'm Emily.
0:58.0	And I'm Denaker.
0:59.0	We believe in looking to the future of relationships,
1:02.0	not maintaining the status quo of the past.
1:05.0	Whether you're monogamous, polyamorous, swinging, casually dating, or if you just do
1:10.9	relationships differently, we see you and we're here for you.
1:15.0	Fongs I know I did.
1:20.0	Force we made a form. On this episode of the multi-ammery podcast we're talking to the one and only Dan Savage.
1:35.7	Dan Savage is a renowned sex-advised columnist, podcaster, and author.
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