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Home » Columns & Opinion » Savage Love

Category: Savage Love

Posted inColumns & Opinion

Did my ‘bonding hormone’ get stage fright?

by Dan Savage July 1, 2022July 6, 2022

Investigating one man’s failure to romantically attach to a vacation rando

Posted inColumns & Opinion

Pride, prejudice, and the ‘bamboo cage’

by Dan Savage June 24, 2022July 1, 2022

On giving thought to the cultural forces that may have shaped “preferences”

Posted inColumns & Opinion

Renegotiating limits during a scene is never OK

by Dan Savage June 17, 2022July 1, 2022

On bad Doms, fluid pronouns, and identifying as bisexual

Posted inColumns & Opinion

Listen to your friends and your therapist

by Dan Savage June 8, 2022June 8, 2022

Plus, why the logistics of a threesome matter

Posted inColumns & Opinion

Tugging does not mean yanking!

by Dan Savage June 8, 2022June 8, 2022

What happens when your laptop dies and your Instagram followers have questions

Posted inColumns & Opinion

Frayed nerves because of freysexual ‘lover’

by Dan Savage May 23, 2022May 23, 2022

A committed romantic partner can’t have sex with people they love

Posted inColumns & Opinion

Bewjeweled butt plugs and the war on abortion

by Dan Savage May 16, 2022May 16, 2022

This is a column about worries.

Posted inColumns & Opinion

My wife has ‘new relationship energy’ with her girlfriend

by Dan Savage May 13, 2022May 13, 2022

Agreeing to a one-sided open relationship is not the same as agreeing to one-sided polyamory.

Posted inColumns & Opinion

My wife wakes up at 3 AM to masturbate

by Dan Savage May 4, 2022May 6, 2022

Quickies on topping, whipped cream, and chastity cages

Posted inColumns & Opinion

I put my husband in a sleepsack and play video games

by Dan Savage April 22, 2022April 22, 2022

A kinky reader worries about accidental death on “storage nights”

Posted inColumns & Opinion

Turn that pelvic frown upside down

by Dan Savage April 5, 2022April 6, 2022

And why you shouldn’t give your money to Gertrude

Posted inColumns & Opinion

Forever vs. now

by Dan Savage March 30, 2022March 30, 2022

I’ve always thought of this column (and my podcast) as a conversation I’m having with friends about our love and/or sex lives after we’d had a few drinks. (Or, these days, shared an edible.)

Posted inColumns & Opinion

Searching for answers

by Dan Savage March 22, 2022March 22, 2022

I get a lotta unsolicited dick pics in my line of work—not complaining, just saying—and half the dicks I see in any given week have pubes. So, there are plenty of naturally hairy guys out there for you to choose from.

Posted inColumns & Opinion

Age-old problems

by Dan Savage March 17, 2022March 17, 2022

It’s important that you’re feeling aroused—not feeling dread—when your lover is on his way over.

Posted inColumns & Opinion

Lay Misérables

by Dan Savage March 7, 2022March 7, 2022

The world is on fire. Let this pig come see you.

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