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Hey, this is Dan Savage, and you've managed to successfully download the Savage Love Podcast,

which comes to you every week from the offices of these tech-sevy at-risk youth who compel

me to do this program against my will week after week after week. The phone number here at the

Savage Love podcast if you'd like to call and record a question for a future podcast, 206, 201,

2720. Now let's get to some of those calls. Hi, Dan. I'm a 21-year-old heterosexual male. I've had an

opportunity to have sex with a fair number of people, and I've turned it down because I generally

don't want to have sex outside of a relationship. I've had sex with a little over half a dozen

people, and I've had to keep that number relatively low in my lifetime. I've got to with a little over half dozen people, and I've looked to keep that number

relatively low in my lifetime, but what I'm wondering is do you think the regret of not

having taken advantage of these chances will be worse later in life than the regret of taking

advantage of them? So basically, to fuck or not to fuck, that is the question.

To fuck or not to fuck?

You're getting so Shakespearean on my ass today.

Regret late in life.

You're going to regret so much late in life.

Probably this too.

But I don't want to, you know, tell you to fuck people that you don't want to fuck.

I would advise you.

I would warn you that there is no the one.

If you're waiting around for the one to show up wearing a V1 t-shirt with a V-1 diamond tiara on

and an airplane pulling a V-1 banner over her head, you're

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