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SAVAGE LOVE: Cleaning House

A queer housecleaner wants to offer discounts to other queer folks. Is that illegal, or what?

Bisexual AFAB non-binary here. (And a Magnum sub!) I have a legal query Iโ€™m hoping you or perhaps one of your guest experts might be able to help with? Iโ€™m a self-employed cleaner in Portland, Oregon, who offers a discount for LGBTQ+ folks on first cleans. The discount attracts the kinds of clients I want, queer […]

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SAVAGE LOVE: Red Wedding

Her parents are aggressive MAGA assholes who can’t keep their ignorant mouths shut. Should she disinvite them to her wedding?

I am planning my wedding, which is happening this summer. My partner and I are trying to plan an event thatโ€™s casual, fun, and full of love. Unfortunately, my parents are MAGA. And they relish trolling me. The other day on a very rare phone call they started going on about wearing MAGA gear at the […]

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SAVAGE LOVE: Gone Girl

He’s good looking, but terrible in bed. She craves sexual fulfillment… so what are her options here?

My husband and I (cis male and cis female) never had much sexual chemistry. In the beginning he said not to worry, we have a lot of time, and it could only get better. But nothing has changed. When I express my frustration with the lack of sex usually after going months without an orgasm or […]

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SAVAGE LOVE: Quickies

Get your most pressing sexual questions answered lickety-split in this edition of Quickies!

1. Iโ€™m a woman living with a supportive, caring man. Weโ€™ve been together โ€” on and off โ€” for twenty years. The sex is always hot when we get back together. Then, after a year, the sex fades to nothingness. I believe the problem is that hot โ€œreunitedโ€ sex only turns me on for a while and […]

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SAVAGE LOVE: Doom and Groom

She thinks her hubby was groomed by a former babysitter… that’s weird, right?

Should I feel weird about my husbandโ€™s grooming situation when he was young with a family friend if he doesnโ€™t feel weird about it? Heโ€™s mid-thirties. Heโ€™s known this woman since he was seven and she used to babysit for him. She was a family friend. Once she returned to England, my husband went to visit her […]

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SAVAGE LOVE: Borders Crossed

Featuring “passport bro” ethics, a bisexual whose coworker is making her pants explode, and more!

How do you feel about the rise of โ€œpassport brosโ€? A friend of mine rearranged his life after his divorce and now spends about half the year overseas dating. He insists itโ€™s not exploitation or colonialism โ€” just a life hack โ€” since his income goes three times as far abroad. Heโ€™s basically able to live […]

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SAVAGE LOVE: Straight Up

Penises: You like ’em or you don’t, right? Turns out it’s a bit more complicated than that.

Dear Readers: Iโ€™m off this week. So, letโ€™s enjoy โ€” and perhaps relitigate โ€” this column from July 12, 2022. โ€” Dan Iโ€™m a cis woman in her 30s who lives on the East Coast. Iโ€™ve been in an LTR with the same cis man for 12 years. No issues there at all! But we are […]

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SAVAGE LOVE: Quickies

Sex starvation, flirtatious cheating, and left vs. right: which is better for masturbation?

1. My spouse and I havenโ€™t had sex for almost two years. No kids, jobs arenโ€™t stressful, and we still enjoy each otherโ€™s company. (At least I enjoy theirs.) The subject of sex never comes up. I donโ€™t miss it, honestly, and I suspect they donโ€™t either. But I donโ€™t know. Itโ€™s possible your spouse doesnโ€™t miss […]

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SAVAGE LOVE: Hurdles

The old saying goes, “There’s someone out there for everyone”โ€”but is it true?

Am I wrong to think a relationship isnโ€™t realistic for me? I think Iโ€™ve been sold an idea of love that doesnโ€™t apply to my life, and I want to know if Iโ€™m wrong. I am straight and 34-year-old male. I have a rare progressive disability. Iโ€™m blind, I have severe hearing loss (I canโ€™t follow […]

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SAVAGE LOVE: The Reveal

Exposing a cheating ex on social media: DO or DON’T DO?

Are there rules to revealing a cheating ex on social media? Three weeks ago, I confronted my boyfriend about his repeated requests that we โ€œfind a time to talk.โ€ These requests were never followed by any actual talk. Weโ€™d been together for three years by then. After his third futile attempt (โ€œWe still need to have […]

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SAVAGE LOVE: Outward Bound

He wants to be tied up, his partner thinks it’s “a chore.” Can this relationship be saved?

Iโ€™m a 26-year-old cis gay boy. I met my 28-year-old boyfriend in an actual bar and not an app โ€” like it was 1978 or something โ€” so we didnโ€™t share our sexual interests before we met. We hooked up that night and things got serious pretty quick. He was the first guy I met in […]

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SAVAGE LOVE: Show and Tell

To confess (a sexual dalliance) or not to confess: That is (as usual) the question.

Iโ€™ve been married to my wife for nine years and we share a beautiful life together with our two young children. I came out to her as bi late last year after working through some major intimacy issues that are still ongoing. She accepts me and the issues are getting better. We are monogamous and I […]

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