Savage Love Episode 578

Savage Lovecast

Dan Savage

Society & Culture, Relationships, Health & Fitness, Sexuality

4.6 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2017

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

A married man is deliciously conflicted as his wife sleeps with women. It turns him on at first, but then jealousy and resentment settle in. How to reconcile? A woman newly broken up with her boyfriend has some recent boudoir photos kicking around. Should she send them to him? On the Magnum, listen in on our live show in Vancouver with Esther Perel, author of "Mating in Captivity." Dan and Esther take long hard look at the history of human relationships and our culture's obsession with monogamy. YOUR DAYS ARE NUMBERED, MONOGAMY. 206-302-2064 This episode is brought to you by . Get 50% off just about any item, plus free shipping when you enter the offer code "Savage". The Savage Lovecast is also sponsored by , an online retailer of premium mattresses for a fraction of the price -- because everyone deserves a great night’s sleep. Get $50 off any mattress purchase by visiting and enter the promo code savagelove. Today’s episode is also brought to you by Blue Apron- the delivery service that sends you fresh ingredients and incredible recipes so you can make fabulous meals at home. Check out this week’s menu and get $30 off your first order by going to .

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0:00.0	You're listening to the micro version of the Savage Lovecast, www.com.
0:06.6	If you're stuck in a relationship quandary, or if you're looking for sexual harmony,
0:13.7	while there's nothing you can last on the Savage Lovecast.
0:25.2	It Gets Better Project was launched on this program in 2010.
0:29.3	Sometimes it's funny.
0:29.9	People will write me and say, oh my God, have you ever heard of this It Gets Better
0:32.9	Project thing?
0:34.0	Yeah, I've heard of it.
0:35.2	Terry and I, my husband and I, we launched that.
0:37.3	We created that. And it was first rolled out here on the Savage Lovecast. And the idea behind it was getting LGBT adults to share their wisdom, how they made it better for themselves, what they did, you know, what they said to their parents, what they said to their friends, what they did if they were being bullied to survive and get through that with LGBT youths.
0:56.5	You know, when you think about it, a kid who's bullied because of his race or faith or her class, go home to parents of the same faith, same race, same class that they can turn to for advice.
1:03.9	The queer kid doesn't go home to that.
1:06.3	All too often that queer kid goes home to parents who are also bullying them, which is often the case
1:12.1	with conservative, religious, fundamentalist, evangelical shitbag parents. The It Gets Better Project
1:18.5	out of the gate was attacked by religious conservatives and leading the attack Tony Perkins,
1:24.7	head of the Family Research Council, perhaps, the most powerful evangelical conservative Christian in the country.
1:33.0	In August of 2011, Perkins sent a fundraising letter to the Family Research Council dupes out there that reads in part,
1:39.9	the videos are titled, It Gets Better, they are aimed at persuading kids that although they'll face
1:44.3	struggles and perhaps bullying for coming out as homosexual or transgendered or some other
1:49.2	perversion, life will get better. It is disgusting. It is part of a concerted effort to persuade
1:55.9	kids that homosexuality is okay and actually to recruit them into that lifestyle.
2:02.6	The Family Research Council, which again, Tony Perkins' heads, declared an anti-gay
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