Savage Love Episode 685

Savage Lovecast

Dan Savage

Relationships, Sexuality, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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0:00.0	You're listening to the micro version of the Savage Lovecast, www.com.
0:06.7	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 Savage Lovecast.
0:24.8	Gallup released their annual values and beliefs poll this week.
0:28.2	They asked Americans to weigh in on 21 different personal behaviors and rate them as either morally acceptable or morally unacceptable.
0:35.0	Don't know why Gallup didn't just go with immoral, immoral, three syllables,
0:38.8	morally acceptable, seven syllables means the same thing. Anyway, using birth control, drinking alcohol,
0:45.2	getting a divorce, remain the most broadly accepted personal moral behaviors in the United States.
0:49.7	Megan Brennan wrote in a summary of the results at Gallup's website. Let's take a deep dive into
0:54.3	these numbers. 92% of Americans think birth control, morally acceptable. Seventy-nine percent of
0:59.7	Americans think booze is morally acceptable. Pot, not far behind, with 65% of Americans deeming
1:05.2	recreational pot use morally acceptable. And 77% of Americans think divorce is morally acceptable, up from 59% in 2001,
1:14.0	which was the first year Gallup conducted its values and beliefs poll. Pre-marital sex, gambling,
1:19.2	stem cell research, same-sex relationships, having babies outside a wedlock, the death penalty,
1:24.0	all seen as morally acceptable by 71, 68, 64, 63, and 60% of Americans, respectively.
1:30.8	Americans, Brennan, writes, have increasingly taken a more liberal view on basically all issues since 2001.
1:38.0	We don't even get into negative territory with majorities of Americans regarding something as morally unacceptable, aka immoral.
1:44.4	Until we get to, can you guess, send deep sigh abortion,
1:48.9	which 50% of Americans regard is morally unacceptable and 40% regard is morally acceptable.
1:54.4	But 78% of Americans, according to another Gallup poll,
1:57.6	still think abortion should be legal in some or all circumstances.
2:01.5	Oh, and porn, also in the negative territory. Oh, my God, porn. Nearly 70% of Americans think porn is morally
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