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It's the most wonderful time of the year.

It was a couple of days ago.

Merry Christmas, happy Hanukkah, correctly pronounced for a change.

Kwanza, what-abs, you're doing?

Happy solstice.

This is the Savage Lovecast, and I am Dan Savage.

Usually this is a call-in sex advice podcast,

but this week we invited our listeners to call and share

their stories of holiday-related sex humiliation.

Because sex in the holidays don't mix too well.

First of all, you're packed full of food and sex is just uncomfortable,

usually off the menu.

But also, the holidays are a very non-erotic moment, I feel, in the year.

You know, you go online and you look at personal ads.

I really have a beat. And I only look at them for, you know, professional reasons to keep up with

the lingo and the sex practices of the folks that I'm advising. But you go on and you look at

the personal ads, gay and straight. And oftentimes you'll see this particular genre of half-naked, dirty online personal ad photo

that I find very disturbing, which is the naked dude with a hard on standing next to the

Christmas tree wearing a Santa hat, or the girl on all fours giving us the full roadkill bent

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