Savage Love

koan · Post by **koan** » Mon Jan 01, 2007 3:42 pm

There is a local newspaper in Vancouver called The Georgia Straight, which is a great paper and almost deserves its own thread. It's a free paper and I used to grab it every week to read this one column; Savage Love. It's written by Dan Savage, carried by a few other papers in Canada and the US and is nothing else I've ever read in a paper. You want to hear about bizarre relationship problems? Go here: Savage Love - Archives.

As horrifying as some of these stories are... some are just outright absurd some are quite serious, it's hard to stop reading. Warning: Nothing is sacred in these articles. Expect to read things that will mess up your mind.

koan · Post by **koan** » Mon Jan 01, 2007 3:53 pm

Some people live it. All those letters are legitimate.

I thought it might satisify the recent surge of sex topics on FG. The columns are published in public newspapers of good standing. The warning is on the OP for those that don't want to read that sort of thing.

CARLA · Post by **CARLA** » Mon Jan 01, 2007 3:58 pm

Oh Boy I didn't expect that...

Savage Love sounds kinda of good..:-3

koan · Post by **koan** » Mon Jan 01, 2007 4:01 pm

CARLA;502535 wrote: Oh Boy I didn't expect that...

Savage Love sounds kinda of good..:-3

ok. warning wasn't strong enough.

this is an advice column for people with the most bizarre sexual problems.

if you go there to read expect the worst.

Patsy Warnick · Post by **Patsy Warnick** » Mon Jan 01, 2007 4:31 pm

I have never in my life ever thought someone/write/publish this?? I'm like dumb founded..

Why in the world would anyone write in to be published like this? This is a Dear ABBEY FOR SEX

This newspaper is out of Seattle - go figure. Well this can be a education if nothing else. Very different.

Patsy

koan · Post by **koan** » Mon Jan 01, 2007 4:34 pm

Patsy Warnick;502588 wrote: I have never in my life ever thought someone/write/publish this?? I'm like dumb founded..

Why in the world would anyone write in to be published like this? This is a Dear ABBEY FOR SEX

This newspaper is out of Seattle - go figure. Well this can be a education if nothing else. Very different.

Patsy

From Wikipedia

Savage Love is a syndicated sex-advice column by Dan Savage, appearing weekly in several dozen newspapers, mainly free city papers in the U.S. and Canada, but also newspapers in Europe and Asia. It started in 1991 with the first issue of the Seattle weekly newspaper The Stranger. It can also be found in the Stranger's sister publication, Oregon's Portland Mercury. Other venues include: The Onion AV Club [1], the LA Weekly, The Chicago Reader[2] and its affiliated paper Reader's Guide to Arts & Entertainment, the Twin Cities' City Pages, Halifax's The Coast [3], The Orlando Weekly, Boston's Weekly Dig[4], Hamilton Ontario's View Magazine[5], and Vancouver's Georgia Straight[6].

The openly gay author uses the column as a forum for his strong opinions that often flout "family values"; he often encourages advice-seekers to pursue their fetishes. The tone of the column is humorous, and Savage does not shy away from using profanity. He is strongly opposed to both bestiality and incest. Though Savage encourages sexual experimentation, he does not encourage carelessness. He frequently makes use of his position — that of a columnist with a large and loyal audience — to spread AIDS awareness and to promote safe sex. In political matters, Savage occasionally shows a libertarian bent. He does however vote Democratic because he believes that voting for minority parties gives votes to the Republicans.

koan · Post by **koan** » Mon Jan 01, 2007 5:02 pm

Just to show you how funny this column can be:

Moving on, I was all set to do a really kick-ass column this week on cuckolding—wherein a straight man watches, or is told about, another man having sex with his wife or girlfriend—when one of my coworkers walked in with a pan of pumpkin pot cake. She told us that the cake was a complete failure as a drug; she had eaten two pieces the night before and didn't get high at all. It was, however, pretty tasty cake, so she brought it in to work to share with everybody.

Well, it seems that my coworker's tolerance for THC is lots higher than mine. I had one little sliver of cake—maybe two—and now I'm so ********** baked I can hardly see my laptop. I shouldn't be writing a column in this condition—goodness, what if someone were to actually take my advice?—but deadlines are deadlines and no editor will accept performance de-hancing drugs as an excuse for missing one. So I set aside the contentious cuckolding issue until next week and scrounged up a few questions that, even stoned, I can't screw up. Or can I?

:yh_rotfl

Patsy Warnick · Post by **Patsy Warnick** » Mon Jan 01, 2007 5:14 pm

Sometimes you can think better stoned. thorough - and inspires other avenues to research/write about.

Good Luck Patsy