Savage Love Episode 654

Savage Lovecast

Dan Savage

Relationships, Sexuality, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2019

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

A woman keeps getting told to go home after she hooks up in the middle of the night. Don't any of these gentleman know how to make breakfast? A woman has learned that her beloved aunt has been having a lesbian affair for decades. Some but not all of her family knows. Should the caller tell everyone? At family gatherings? Because she just can't keep her mouth shut? Will she heed Dan's stern advice? On the Magnum, a woman wonders if the best orgasm of her life, way back when she was 16, was due to her lover's tongue ring. Or was it the newness of teen lovin'? And, oh oh! It's time for a Second Opinion, with Lori Gottlieb- psychotherapist and author of the New York Times bestseller, . She also writes the "Dear Therapist" advice column for The Atlantic, and thus is eligible to give advice alongside Dan. Together they give counsel to a woman who is trying to get her shit together in order to win back her man, and also to a woman who gets to enjoy the spectacle of her new neighbor rigorously masturbating in front of his window. 206-302-2064 This episode is brought toy by Tushy- the modern bidet attachment that washes your ass completely. Go to and get 10% off your order with promo code SAVAGE. Stop wiping and start washing with TUSHY. Support for this show is brought to you by the new Audible Original "Heads Will Roll" from Saturday Night Live’s Kate McKinnon and co-creator Emily Lynne. It’s a royally raunchy, scripted audio comedy. Listen free with a 30-day trial. Just go to or text SAVAGEHEADS to 500 500 Thanks to Leesa for supporting the Savage Lovecast. Leesa makes high quality, comfortable, well-designed mattresses. For 15% off, a 100 night risk-free trial and free shipping, go to and use promo code "Savage."

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0:00.0	You're listening to the micro version of the Savage Lovecast, www.com.
0:06.8	If you're stuck in a relationship quandary, or if you're looking for sexual harmony,
0:16.3	well, there's nothing you can't ask on the Savage Lovecast.
0:24.9	It's the news that should have been bigger.
0:27.1	It's certainly news that would have had people dancing in the streets in San Francisco, New York City, Chicago,
0:32.1	basically every city with a big Gaberhood.
0:34.7	End to AIDS in sight as huge study finds drugs stop HIV transmission.
0:39.9	That was the headline in The Guardian. The report is about a new study. Researchers in Europe
0:44.3	followed 1,000 male couples where one partner was HIV positive and one was HIV-negative,
0:49.5	and the HIV-positive partner was taking antiretroviral drugs and had an undetectable viral load. That is, no virus detectable in the HIV-positive partner was taking antiretroviral drugs and had an undetectable viral load.
0:55.2	That is, no virus detectable in the HIV-positive partner's blood at all.
0:59.6	There were no cases of transmission of the infection to the HIV-negative partner during sex without a condom.
1:05.6	The report on the Guardian continued, although 15 men were infected with HIV during the eight-year study.
1:12.0	DNA testing proved that those men who did get infected, it was because of sex with someone
1:16.3	other than their partner who was not on treatment.
1:20.4	This study confirmed something that other studies pointed to in mountains of anecdotal evidence
1:25.0	also pointed to undetectable equals uninfectious.
1:29.1	As Professor Alison Roger of the University of College London, who co-led the study, which
1:33.2	was published in the Lancet Medical Journal, told The Guardian, this very much puts the issue
1:38.5	to bed.
1:39.4	Our finding provides conclusive evidence for gay men that the risk of HIV transmission with suppressive
1:44.9	art, antiretroviral therapy, is zero.
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