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Savage Lovecast

Savage Love Episode 401

Savage Lovecast

Dan Savage

Relationships, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Sexuality

4.66.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2014

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

A gay man appears to be a straight man magnet. Straight men declare their love for him more than gay men do. Why? And how can he make it stop?!  Meanwhile, in the mountains of Alaska, a couple have reached the divide where one of them wants kids and the other doesn't. One of them will win. One will lose.  On the Magnum, it's our second Second Opinion! This time, with "Ask Amy's" Amy Dickinson who braves some raunchy territory with naughty Dan Savage.  Also, Alice Dreger on talking to your kid about pornography.  206-201-2720 This episode is brought to you by AdamandEve.com. Get 10 free gifts, plus free shipping when you enter offer code "Savage".

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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,

0:16.1

while there's nothing you can't ask on Savage Lovecast.

0:24.9

It doesn't take much digging online to find articles written by social conservatives and right-wing fundamentalist evangelical bat-shit Christians attacking me for the threat that I allegedly pose to the institution

0:38.7

of marriage.

0:39.9

And all married gay people also pose the institution of marriage because we are less likely

0:44.2

we gay couples to be strictly monogamous, less successfully monogamous.

0:48.7

They often say, I would say we are more successfully non-monogamous, particularly when we

0:53.0

are non-monogamous in our long-term relationships, and they work and we stay together and we are non-monogamous, particularly when we are non-monogamous in our long-term

0:54.2

relationships and they work and we stay together and we are non-monogamous.

0:58.2

But I'm a big threat to the sacred institution of marriage because I sometimes talk about

1:03.5

non-monogamy because you can listen to the show and hear from people who are not necessarily

1:07.8

monogamous and their relationships are working for them.

1:10.5

But also frequently I am attacked by religious conservatives, social conservatives, because of kink.

1:16.0

Because I will write about non-normative, non-penes and vagina desires, even in the context of a committed relationship.

1:24.4

And encourage people, say it with me, if you're a long-term listener to the show, encourage people to be GGG, to be understanding, maybe to step outside their comfort zones to accommodate and indulge a partner, not to step into a trauma zone to accommodate or indulge a partner, but to, you know, maybe go there, maybe expand your sexual repertoire.

1:43.7

And the science eventually caught up

1:45.0

with me and showed that people who went on sexual journeys and were G, G, G, G, actually reported

1:50.9

greater levels of relationship satisfaction over the long term, not just the person being

1:54.2

indulged in whatever it was that turned them on, but the person who was doing the indulging.

2:00.2

They reported higher levels of relationship satisfaction, sexual the person who was doing the indulging, they reported higher levels of relationship

2:02.5

satisfaction, sexual transformations. That was what the study was up. People who had transformed

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