Domination Lessons
6/9/202649 min
A trans woman's friend is married to a Russian-born MAGA creep-o. But, plot twist! The Trump/Putin-lover is transitioning! It's hard for the caller to gin up sympathy for someone who supports anti-gay/trans autocrats. How should she interact with these bizarre people?
A gay man's new boyfriend wants to get dominated. But the caller has always been vanilla. Dan welcomes Master R, who specializes in shibari bondage to offer this newbie some tips.
On the Magnum, Dan once asked if there were ANY poly-under-duress memoirs written by men...
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 10:00
You're listening to the Savage Lovecast, Dan Savage's sex and relationship show for grownups. If you're under 18, get out of here, youngin'.
Master R· Guest0:07
[singing] If you're stuck in a relationship quandary, or if you're looking for sexual harmony. Well, there's nothing you can't ask on the Savage Lovecast.
Dan Savage· Host0:26
The burst of activism and visibility that followed the Stonewall riots in 1969 led to the passage of laws protecting gays and lesbians from discrimination in a handful of cities around the country by the mid-1970s. One law that passed in Dade County, Florida, prohibited discrimination against gays and lesbians in housing, employment, and public accommodation. Religious conservatives launched the, quote-unquote, "Save Our Children" campaign to repeal that law. They are always launching campaigns to save their children from people who aren't actually menacing their children. Always worried about the drag queens, never worried about the youth pastors. Anyway, the backlash in the late '70s had arrived, and it arrived in Dade County, Florida. The Save Our Children campaign was fronted by a former beauty queen turned orange juice pitchwoman named Anita Bryant, and it was successful. The Dade County gay rights law was repealed at the ballot box, with seventy percent of Dade County residents voting in favor of the repeal. The success of the Save Our Children campaign in Dade County would lead to the