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Savage Lovecast

Savage Love Episode 170

Savage Lovecast

Dan Savage

Relationships, Sexuality, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.66.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2010

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Her cousin's boyfriend is locked away in prison. If the cousin slept with someone else while she waited it out, would that make her a skank-ass ho? A man who was abused as a child discovers that his lover wants to be the dominant in a BDSM relationship. Should he end it now? As a former waiter, Dan explains the proper etiquette for hitting on servers. And more. Call us at 206-302-2064. This episode was brought to you by Audible. Download a free audio book of your choice today: http://j.mp/savageaudible

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0:00.0

You're listening to a Stranger podcast, www.com.

0:05.7

If you're stuck in a relationship quandary, or if you're looking for sexual harmony,

0:15.4

while there's nothing you can't ask on the Savage Podcast. Last week you can't ask on the Savage Lovecast.

0:23.6

Last week, I started the show with a little rant about an Irish politician named Iris Robinson who has since made huge news all over the world for her dalliances, for her hypocrisy.

0:36.2

And it was a Savage Love listener, a lovecast listener in Great Britain,

0:40.7

who tipped us off. Thanks again, David. I think we were the first out there with some commentary

0:45.0

about Iris Robinson. Unfortunately, because I recorded those comments at the very beginning of the

0:49.4

scandal, it was before a lot of the really juicy shit had come out. So we're going to have to start again this week.

0:55.1

I'm sorry with the sad tale of Iris Robinson.

0:59.5

You may recall from last week that Iris famously is a rabidly anti-gay politician

1:05.1

who has said things like there can be no viler act apart from homosexuality than sexually abusing children.

1:13.7

And it turns out that 60-something Iris Robinson was having an affair with a 19-year-old.

1:19.9

Iris Robinson who said that homosexuality was an abomination and gay people were to be condemned

1:26.0

and that it was the government's job to enforce the word of God as written in the Bible,

1:31.1

which of course would now call for the stoning of Iris Robinson.

1:34.1

I would, I graciously am going to ask the Irish Northern Ireland's government not to have Iris Robinson stoned because I'm big-hearted that way.

1:43.8

But what's really amazing now is that it wasn't just the 19-year-old cafe owner

1:48.3

with the money she was raising and the kickbacks to her fucking church and all this

1:52.4

bat-shitness.

1:54.1

Listen to this.

1:55.4

Iris Robinson had an affair with a teenager she had known from the age of nine.

2:01.1

That's just wrong.

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