Savage Love Episode 1022

Savage Lovecast

Dan Savage

Sexuality, Society & Culture, Relationships, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2026

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

A trans woman's friend is married to a Russian-born MAGA creep-o. But, plot twist! The Trump/Putin-lover is transitioning! It's hard for the caller to gin up sympathy for someone who supports anti-gay/trans autocrats. How should she interact with these bizarre people? A gay man's new boyfriend wants to get dominated. But the caller has always been vanilla. Dan welcomes Master R, who specializes in shibari bondage to offer this newbie some tips. On the Magnum, Dan once asked if there were ANY poly-under-duress memoirs written by men. There is, and we got him! Adam Darrow, author of Seek the Risk: One Man's Journey into Non-Monogamy is on to talk about his initial reluctance in dating a woman with a various sexual appetite. He compares his experience to participating in extreme sports. Listen in. A woman is about to meet a new paramour, who will be visiting her for the first time. In their remote conversations, he has made it crystal clear that he enjoys jizzing all over his ladies. She hates the taste of come. It makes her wretch. How can they square their opposing desires? YOU KNOW YOU HAVE A QUESTION. Here's how to ask it. Record it and send it to Q@Savage.Love Or call 206-302-2064 and leave us a message. Foria is an all natural health & sexual wellness company with product lines using the power of plant actives & CBD to effectively enhance intimacy, sexual pleasure, daily wellbeing, and relief from discomfort. Get 20% off your first order by visiting ⁠ForiaWellness.com/Savage⁠ This episode is brought to you by VB Health, Doctor-formulated supplements that work . To learn more about Load Boost, Drive Boost and Soaking Wet and to get 10% off, visit ⁠VB.Health⁠ when you use the code Savage. Dan Savage is a sex-advice columnist, podcaster, author, and creator of the It Gets Better Project. From bondage to bisexuality, cuckolding to crossdressing and with a dose of progressive politics, Dan Savage is a cultural force for sex positivity, when we most need it.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Savage Lovecast, Dan Savage's Sex and Relationship Show for grownups.
0:05.1	If you're under 18, get out of here, young and...
0:08.0	If you're stuck in a relationship quandary,
0:12.2	or if you're looking for sexual harmony,
0:17.5	while there's nothing you can't ask on the Savage Lovecast.
0:25.6	The burst of activism and visibility that followed the Stonewall riots in 1969
0:31.9	led to the passage of laws protecting gays and lesbians from discrimination in a handful of cities
0:36.9	around the country by the mid-1970s.
0:39.8	One law that passed in Dade County, Florida, prohibited discrimination against gays and lesbians in housing, employment, and public accommodation.
0:48.2	Religious conservatives launched the quote-unquote, Save Our Children campaign to repeal that law.
0:54.5	They are always launching campaigns to save their children from people who aren't actually
0:58.0	menacing their children, always worried about the drag queens, never worried about the
1:01.9	youth pastors.
1:03.5	Anyway, the backlash in the late 70s had arrived, and it arrived in Dade County, Florida.
1:10.4	The Save Our Children campaign was fronted
1:12.2	by a former beauty queen turned orange juice pitch woman named Anita Bryant, and it was successful.
1:18.4	The Dade County gay rights law was repealed at the ballot box with 70% of Dade County residents
1:24.1	voting in favor of the repeal. The success of the Sabar Children
1:27.8	campaign in Dade County would lead to the repeal of gay rights laws using similar tactics
1:32.6	in St. Paul, Minnesota, and Eugene Oregon, and other cities. That backlash quickly went national.
1:40.8	There was a backlash when the AIDS crisis began when it was called gay cancer, grid, gay related
1:45.6	immunodeficiency.
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