Savage Love Episode 659

Savage Lovecast

Dan Savage

Relationships, Sexuality, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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With the ever-charming and fearsome Mistress Matisse. She came to our studio to help Dan answer questions about bruises (wanted and unwanted,) gang bangs, the nasty kind of doms you'll meet on Reddit, rough sex when you're pregnant and the proper care and washing of your ball-gag. And more! And, on the Magnum, Dan chats with historian and author Peter Tupper on his new book A Lover's Pinch: A Cultural History of Sadomasochism. Yowwwwch! 206-302-2064 This episode is brought to you by Talkspace- online therapy that makes it easy to get extra mental health support. For $45 off your first month, go to and use the offer code Savage. This episode of the Savage Lovecast is sponsored by OMGyes.com: a website dedicated to getting scientific truths out about women's sexual pleasure. Savage Lovecast listeners can get a discount if they go to . This episode is brought to you by Squarespace. They make it easy to build a website or blog. Give it a whirl at and if you want to buy it, use the code Savage for a 10% off your first purchase.

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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,
0:16.2	well, there's nothing you can't ask on the Savage Lovecast.
0:24.8	The big news out of Boston kind of puts me in an awkward position.
0:28.4	Seems someone, some asshole or assholes, is holding a straight pride parade.
0:33.3	The news about the straight pride parade was so big.
0:35.1	Bill Maher actually talked about it at the top of his show on Friday. and he did a really good job, Bill Maher did, of explaining why straight pride parades aren't actually a thing.
0:44.7	This is true. In Boston, a group of guys got together and they want to have a straight pride parade. This is coming from a group called Super Happy Fun America.
0:57.2	I cannot think of a gayer name.
1:00.7	That's true.
1:02.5	But, you know, I always want to say to people like this,
1:04.5	you know, gay pride is, you know, a response to being shamed.
1:07.6	How can you really have a straight pride because no one has ever shamed you?
1:12.6	You know, it's like wanting a welcome home party when you've never left the couch.
1:17.9	People don't march in queer pride parades because being queer all by itself is an accomplishment.
1:23.8	Queerness is pretty much randomly distributed through populations.
1:27.6	No, what matters, what people take pride in is what they've managed to do with their
1:32.2	queerness or about their queerness despite the shame, the hostility, the violence, the judgment,
1:36.7	the religious condemnation.
1:38.8	Real violence is done to queers by our families, by our churches, by our governments.
1:43.8	We're told this neutral fact about us is sick and wrong and not something we should ever
1:48.9	tell anyone about ever.
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