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Savage Lovecast

Savage Love Episode 379

Savage Lovecast

Dan Savage

Relationships, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Sexuality

4.66.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2014

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

A first-time unicorn finds herself alone and naked on the bed, while her couple argue. Should she give them another chance?  A woman has lost 180 lbs. If her new lovers knew she used to be so heavy, would they still want her? And how can she forgive them if the answer is no?  On the Magnum, Dan and his brother Billy talking about sports? Pinch us, we're dreamin'!  A man in the music industry works with a rising star. But, the singer is deeply closeted. Should the man urge his client to come out for the sake of his career?  And more.  206-201-2720 Tickets to the Seattle Valentine's Day show with Dan and guests are at www.stgpresents.org This episode is also brought to you by AdamandEve.com. Get 10 free gifts, plus free shipping when you enter offer code "Savage". This episode is also brought to you by Squarespace.com. They make it easy to build a website or blog. Give it a whirl, and if you want to buy it, use the code Savage1 for a 10% discount and free web domain registration.

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0:00.0

You're listening to the micro version of the Savage Lovecast, www.com.

0:06.7

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

0:16.2

well, there's nothing you can't pass on the Savage Muckcast.

0:24.6

I'm mystified constantly by the debate in the country about birth control because it's always framed as a women's issue or a woman's issue.

0:32.5

Birth control, birth control, access to birth control, whether the Affordable Care Act is going to cover birth control,

0:38.4

whether private employers should be able to deny birth control coverage in their health care

0:43.3

packages to their employees because for moral reasons or religious reasons, they disapprove

0:48.8

of birth control, which is a real Pandora's box, because what happens then if that's okayed

0:53.3

by the Supreme Court? And then you have a

0:54.5

private employer who, for religious reasons, disapproves of cohabitation, disapproves of premarital

1:00.2

sex, disapproves of masturbation. At what point do you, anyway, where does that end? But anyway,

1:05.5

we always talk about access to birth control, birth control issues, as if it is something that impacts

1:10.3

women alone, as if birth control is something lesbians need when they have sex to stop them from reproducing somehow.

1:19.4

Birth control is something straight dudes need.

1:22.1

Their wives and girlfriends to have access to if straight dudes want to be able to have sex with women, straight and by dudes,

1:29.3

want to be able to have sex with straight and by women without making fucking babies that they do not want

1:34.7

and cannot take care of at this stage of their lives.

1:37.7

And that's not just youth and childhood premarital.

1:41.1

77% of married women use birth control to plan their families and to control

1:49.2

the rate at which they pop out children because not everybody wants to be a douger when they

1:55.5

grow up or should be, nor could the planet sustain that kind of quiverful bullshit nonsense

2:00.6

if it caught on more

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