Savage Lovecast Episode 1024
6/23/202657 min
A woman discovers her recently deceased father had a foot-tickling fetish and doesn't know how to process this new view of her dad.
Speaking of kinks, a man with a diaper fetish is feeling resentful that his kink so severely limits his dating prospects.
On the Magnum, Dan chats with hunky clinical psychologist Dr. Thomas Whitfield about dating closet cases, sex education, masc for masc and why the common use of therapy terms like "narcissist" and "avoidant" is so annoying.
And, a man and his girlfriend need a comfortable but effective gag option.
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First 90 secondsNancy Hartunian0:00
You're listening to the Savage Lovecast, Dan Savage's sex and relationship show for grownups. If you're under 18, get outta here, youngin'.
Speaker 20:07
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Dan Savage· Host0:26
Terry took me out to the ballgame for Father's Day, the Seattle Mariners versus the Boston Red Sox. The Mariners won, so that was nice. But the day was not without conflict. Terry and I got into an argument on the way to the stadium. That is not out of the ordinary for us. Arguing is our love language. Some people have anxious attachment styles. We have argumentative attachment styles. [laughs] Way back when we were a brand-new couple, we had two friends, another gay couple, who never fought. They called us the Bickersons. We wanted to be more like them and never argue. And then they had an argument, their very first argument after almost 10 years together, and immediately broke up, and we were like, "Oh, maybe we're doing something right." Maybe in the same way it's good for your body's immune system to have some exposure to pathogens, it's good for your relationship's immune system to have some exposure to conflict. So what were we fighting about on Father's Day on the way to the game? The San Francisco Giants, which is another baseball team somewhere, had a Pride night at their stadium