Savage Lovecast Episode 997

Savage Lovecast

Dan Savage

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Sexuality, Relationships

4.7 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Gift a Magnum subscription to a friend or enemy for 1/2 off! That’s just $24 from Dec 1-31. A recent widow grapples with a surge in her libido. A gay man has been a top for all of his sexual life. Now that's he's a dating a man who wants to top him every now and again, can he learn to like it? On the Magnum, Dan chats with Kelly Foster Lundquist, Author of "Beard." 20 years after her divorce from her closeted gay husband, Lundquist writes about her experience as a "beard." She and Dan discuss how unfair and damaging the closet can be. After 10 glorious days, a straight man got dumped and then ghosted. Which hurts more? Ouch [email protected]. 206-302-2064 This episode is brought to you by Beducated, the leading platform for pleasure-based sex education for adults. Go to Beducated.com and use the code SAVAGE for 65% a yearly pass. 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. 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. Dan Savage is a sex-advice columnist, podcaster, author, and creator of the It Gets Better Project. From beards to bondage to bisexuality, and with a dose of progressive politics, Dan Savage is a cultural force for sex positivity, in these darkest of dark times.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody really quick. For the month of December, when you give a magnum subscription as a gift,
0:05.2	you'll get it for half off. That's one year for $24. Don't buy a scarf or a gadget. Give them
0:11.6	something sexy and smart at savage dot love. We appreciate it and happy holidays. You're listening to
0:18.5	the Savage Love cast, Dan Savage's Sex and Relationship Show for grownups.
0:23.0	If you're under 18, get out of here, young.
0:26.5	If you're stuck in a relationship quandary, or if you're looking for sexual harmony,
0:35.9	while there's nothing you can't ask on the saddish lovecasts.
0:44.2	The news cycle we're in, the news cycle we have all been trapped in together since Trump
0:48.4	came down that golden escalator is nuts.
0:52.2	Stories that would have been huge a decade ago barely registered today.
0:55.8	They don't make the front pages.
0:57.1	They don't come up on the Sunday news shows.
0:59.0	They don't break through on social media.
1:01.0	And then you're at a party.
1:03.2	I was at a party, guys.
1:04.4	Yes, me, Dan Savage, at a party.
1:06.1	It happens.
1:07.1	And someone casually mentions a news story and assumes I must have heard about it because I'm an informed person.
1:14.1	I read the New Yorker, the Atlantic, the New York Times.
1:17.0	I doomscrow myself to sleep every night and wake up doomsgrowing every morning.
1:22.3	So I'm at a party, which is unlike me.
1:24.6	I'm an introvert, but I am at a party. And this person, the science person,
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