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Savage Lovecast

Savage Love Episode 575

Savage Lovecast

Dan Savage

Society & Culture, Relationships, Health & Fitness, Sexuality

4.66.4K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2017

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

A woman from the UK wonders why Americans are so quick to commit to each other after just a little bit of sex. Dan's history lesson explains it all. A woman and her husband are into hot-spousing. It's been super-fun and brought them closer together as a couple. But her husband gets racked with guilt each time, and runs to tell his priest ALL ABOUT IT.  What's his damage? On the Magnum, Dan chats with Mayor Betsy Hodges of Minneapolis about being on the vanguard of urban resistance. Keep fightin' Betsy! And, are you into having women burp in your mouth? This guy is... 206-302-2064 This podcast is also brought to you by Stamps.com. Click on the microphone and enter "Savage" for postage and a digital scale. This episode of the Lovecast is brought to you by Zeel- the best way to find top local, licensed and pre-screened massage therapists, to come to your home, anytime. Go to Zeel.com and get $25 off your first massage by using the promo code SAVAGE at checkout. This episode is brought to you by Blinkist: over 2,000 of the best-selling nonfiction books, transformed into powerful packs you can read or listen to in just 15 minutes. Go to Blinkist.com/SAVAGE to start your free trial today.

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0:00.0

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

0:06.4

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

0:15.6

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

0:24.8

Nothing makes me happier, as all of you regular listeners know, than science catching up with me.

0:30.9

It's something I've said.

0:31.9

Like for years how I talked about how we should be G, G, G, G, G, G, G, G.

0:36.1

I'm still talking about G, G. I'm going to talk about it right now, in fact talk about it right now, in fact. Gigi is what we should all be for our partners. Gigi is what our partners should be for us. For new listeners, those Gs stand for good in bed, giving pleasure at times without the expectation of an immediate payback and gain for anything within reason. For years, I told people that being GGG would be

0:56.1

good for their relationships. It's particularly good, I think, and helpful if you're in a sexually

1:01.0

exclusive long-term relationship. You know, the kind of relationship some people out there think

1:04.7

I'm trying to destroy. No, just trying to help. Two different sets of researchers. Amy Mews

1:09.1

at the University of Toronto and Valerie Young and Tricia Burke at Hanover College

1:12.4

studied folks who are GGG, after hearing me rant about it for so many years.

1:16.7

Mews looked at partners who demonstrated a willingness to meet each other's needs,

1:20.8

which she terms sexual communal strength.

1:23.6

And Young and Burke studied people who've undergone what they call sexual transformations to

1:28.1

meet a partner's needs. Mews found that couples who were GGGG reported higher levels of daily

1:33.6

sexual desire and were more likely to maintain their desire over time. And Young and Burke

1:38.1

found that couples who were GGG reported higher levels of relationship satisfaction overall.

1:42.8

So hey, thank you, science for catching up to me,

1:46.1

proving me right? I appreciate that. So you can imagine my delight when I saw this headline

1:50.4

in The Guardian last week. Cannabis smokers have 20% more sex researchers find. Quoting from the

1:57.2

Guardian, Stanford University School of Medicine researchers found that women who were daily pot users had sex an average of 7.1 times in the previous four weeks compared with 6.0 times reported by those who denied using marijuana in the past year.

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