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Hey, this is Dan Savage, and you're listening to the Savage Lovecast, the once-a-week, out-loud version of my sex advice column, Savage Love, that runs hopefully in an alternative weekly newspaper near you.

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201, 2720. We're now entering week three of the Larry Craig scandal fallout. And on behalf of all gay

Americans everywhere, I just want to say that by and large, we're not the ones, the homos, the

facts, we're not the ones having sex in airport restrooms. It's usually straight identified,

closeted guys who, you know, maybe they're a little bit by, maybe they're 100% gay and closeted all their lives, but they usually have wives and children in home who are very distressed to learn that daddy is giving blowjobs in airport toilets. Of course, there are some gay guys who do like to trawl bathrooms and give sex and, you know, give blow jobs in airport toilets. But they are to the gays, what Civil War reenactors are to the straits.

They're kind of living in the past.

They're a little bit, regarded as a little bit weird and off.

And they have this weird nostalgia for a very ugly time in the life of the nation.

The gay guys who are blowing people in airport bathrooms have really weird nostalgia

for a time when the only place you could have sex if you were gay was toilets or bathhouses.

And we, you know, most gay people sort of regard them as charming anachronisms and slightly

off and freaky. And also lucky occasionally because sometimes they get to blow very good looking closeted college students in college bathrooms.

Anyway, moving on, let's get to a call.

Hi, Dan. I'm a 21-year-old straight male, and I have a question about distance and relationships.

I have been seeing a girl for about 10 months. We started dating 10 months ago.

We have been living together for eight months and have a very healthy sexual relationship, have sex all the time, are really attracted to each other, have just started getting interested in sex toys and talking about various kinks,

and we listen to your podcast all the time together and talk about it.

But she is going abroad for this semester in college,

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