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Savage Lovecast

Savage Love Episode 399

Savage Lovecast

Dan Savage

Relationships, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Sexuality

4.66.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2014

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

A woman battling cancer wishes to marry her boyfriend. But he's not quite ready. Maybe a sex-advice podcaster can convince him?  Another woman doesn't understand why her married male friends keep kitting on her. What signal is she sending out and how can she make it stop?  On the Magnum, Dan chats with the trans-man filmmaker Buck Angel about the changes in sexual desire that can accompany transitioning.  And, the next time you orgasm, check out your toes.  206-201-2720 This podcast is brought to you by ExtremeRestraints.com. Go buy something, and be sure to enter SAVAGE2014 at checkout. This episode is also brought to you by Audible. Download a free audiobook of your choice today at   This episode is also brought to you by GoToMeeting. Start a 30 day free trial with the promo code SAVAGE.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:06.5

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 ask on the Savage Lovecast.

0:25.1

So, happy belated Father's Day to all the fathers out there who listen to the Savage

0:29.3

Lovecast, a happy belated Father's Day to my own father, who I believe has just begun

0:33.0

listening to the Savage Lovecast, which freaks me the fuck out, dad.

0:37.1

Happy Father's Day,

0:38.1

turn it off, all right? And happy Father's Day belatedly to my husband, Terry, the other father

0:45.4

of our son. And to me, we don't make a big deal about Father's Day at our house. We don't

0:50.5

make a big deal about Valentine's Day. We don't make big deals about anniversaries. We're just not big dealmakers.

0:56.5

We have a little dinner party maybe for a birthday. And every once in a while, about two or three weeks after our anniversary, we look at each other and go, oh, fuck, it was our anniversary, wasn't it? Happy anniversary. And that's about as big a deal as we make. somebody's trying to make a big deal out of Father's Day though

1:10.4

anti-choice activists

1:13.1

we're always trying to make a big deal out of Father's Day, though,

1:16.6

anti-choice activists. We're always trying to make a big deal out of everything. They could find an anti-choice campaign to tie to Arbor Day, but they're tying an anti-choice campaign now to

1:22.4

Father's Day because when it comes to choice, when it comes to abortion, we have to remember

1:26.5

the real victims, the men's.

1:30.5

They're trying to frame Father's Day as a day of mourning for men who have lost children, children to which they were entitled because they had an orgasm, to abortion,

1:42.0

the women choosing whether or not to terminate a pregnancy.

1:45.6

And this was blowing up on Twitter in the week before Father's Day, trying desperately

1:50.0

to get this off the ground, including at the same time a campaign called the pill kills

1:54.0

that they're trying to get off the ground when actually the pill, hormonal birth control,

1:58.1

saves lives.

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