Savage Lovecast Episode 976

Savage Lovecast

Dan Savage

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Sexuality, Relationships

4.7 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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The woman in a married couple that does not want children accidentally got pregnant. This happened once before, and she learned that her husband is against abortion on religious grounds. Should she tell him she will end this pregnancy, or keep it secret from him? Do accidents happen in BDSM? They sure do! Hear the harrowing tale of one man's consequential mistake. Dan brings on Australian kink educator "The Funny Dom" to talk this one through. On the Magnum, a woman's husband is recovering from an accident that left him wheelchair-bound. Now they are wondering how to develop a sex life when he can't feel below the waist. Dan brings on queer disability activist/writer Andrew Gurza, to talk about disability grief, sex with disabilities and how the queer community has work to do in supporting access rights. And, a man in an open relationship is miffed that his wife hates to give him oral sex, but LOVES to give it to her boyfriend. What is going on here? [email protected] 206-302-2064 This episode is brought to you by Squarespace. They make it easy to build a website or blog. Give it a whirl at Squarespace.com/Savage and if you want to buy it, use the code Savage for a 10% off your first purchase. This episode is brought to you by Hims, providing affordable access to ED treatment, online. Start your free online visit today at Hims.com/Savage Dan Savage is a sex-advice columnist, podcaster, author, and creator of the It Gets Better Project. From anal sex to asexuality, weddings to webcamming and with a dose of progressive politics, Dan Savage is a cultural force for sex positivity, when we most need it.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Savage Lovecast, Dan Savage's Sex and Relationship Show for grownups.
0:05.1	If you're under 18, get out of here, young and...
0:08.0	If you're stuck in a relationship quandary,
0:12.4	or if you're looking for sexual harmony,
0:18.1	while there's nothing you can't ask on the Savage Lovecast.
0:26.6	Hiking the Appalachian Trail.
0:29.1	I thought it would stick.
0:31.6	In the summer of 2009, Mark Sanford, then the Republican governor of South Carolina,
0:36.9	a family values conservative Christian,
0:39.6	a married man, four kids, disappeared for a week during hurricane season. No one knew where the
0:46.5	governor of South Carolina was, including his staff. But his staff had to tell the media something.
0:53.1	So his staff said the governor was,
0:55.9	quote unquote, hiking the Appalachian Trail. What the governor was actually doing was fucking his
1:02.5	Argentinian mistress. It was huge news. And hiking the Appalachian Trail instantly became a
1:09.5	euphemism for sneaking out to get some.
1:12.7	In the summer of 2009, if you slipped out of a party to go fuck someone and you said,
1:17.2	hey, I'm going to go hike the Appalachian Trail.
1:19.9	Everyone knew what you meant.
1:22.1	If you said it now, you would sound like a hallucinating AI chatbot.
1:30.5	Hiking the Appalachian Trail had its moment,
1:37.0	didn't stick. Lift my luggage. I was sure that one would stick. I thought that gays would make sure it stuck, if only out of spite. George Allen Rekers, co-founder in 1981 of the rabidly anti-gay family research council,
1:47.3	a neuropsychologist who worked with NARTH, the National Association for Research and Therapy of
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