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SAVAGE LOVE: Fear Factors

Her 17-year-old son is hooking up with older men, and she’s terrified.

My wife and I are a lesbian married couple in Chicago. We are also proud moms to our wonderful, dynamic 17-year-old trans son. โ€œMichaelโ€ is a great kid, and we have always enjoyed a close relationship. It has recently come to light that he is engaging in penetrative sex with men he meets on a […]

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SAVAGE LOVE: Quickies

Get your sex advice quick with this edition of Savage Love quickies!

1) Would you be willing to share my list of proposed gender-free pronouns with your readers, listeners, and followers? Iโ€™ve enclosed a graph listing them that details how they should be used. They are very liberating. Sorry, but Iโ€™m unwilling to share your list of new pronouns with my readers, listeners, and followers, as there […]

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SAVAGE LOVE: Damaged Goods

A sudden onset of premature ejaculation has her wondering, “Will I ever be able to enjoyably ride my husband again?”

My husband and I have been together fifteen years and been through pretty much all of the ups and downs sexually that a monogamous relationship offers. Two years ago, my husband was in an accident and broke his back. The accident resulted in some mild-to-moderate nerve damage to his legs and a newfound case of […]

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SAVAGE LOVE: Crop Top

“My boobs won’t stop growing, so I’m undergoing top surgery—and my husband is distressed.”

My boobs began to get bigger โ€” apropos of nothing โ€” in my early thirties. A lot bigger. No weight gain, they just started growing and didnโ€™t stop. I hated it. Iโ€™m very active, and they were heavy and miserable and got in the way. So, I had a breast reduction and had never been […]

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SAVAGE LOVE: Out and About

At 45, a married woman discovers she’s a lesbian—but wants to stay married to her man, AND keep her girlfriend, AND be accepted by her family. Can she have it all?

Iโ€™m a 45-year-old cis woman. Iโ€™ve been married to a cis man for almost twenty years. About a year and a half ago, I made out with a woman at a party, and everything clicked. I realized something was missing in my life, and I started exploring my attraction to women with my husbandโ€™s blessing. […]

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SAVAGE LOVE: Quickies

Holiday kinks, sneaky sex, anal etiquette, and more in this edition of Savage Love: Quickies!

Whatโ€™s the sexiest holiday food to eat off someoneโ€™s body? While food can be sensuous, you donโ€™t eat food off someoneโ€™s body unless youโ€™re fucking or about to fuckโ€ฆ and fucking on a full stomach is uncomfortable, which is why Iโ€™m always urging people to #FuckFirstโ€ on Valentineโ€™s Day (and their wedding days, birthdays, anniversaries), […]

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SAVAGE LOVE: Turkey Run

When he says “eat me,” he means it literally.

Dear Readers: Iโ€™m off for Thanksgiving. I was to tempted to re-run this column again โ€” which has the single best Thanksgiving-related question that has ever appeared in an advice column โ€” but I re-ran that column last year. So, instead Iโ€™m re-upping a column that appeared just before Thanksgiving in 2016. โ€” Dan Iโ€™m […]

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SAVAGE LOVE: Twinning

“I might be falling in love with my husband’s identical twin brother.” ๐Ÿ‘ฏ‍โ™‚๏ธ

I might be falling in love with my husbandโ€™s identical twin brother. My husband and I have been in a traditional monogamous cishet straight marriage for twelve years. It wasnโ€™t until the last few years that I started catching feelings for my brother-in-law, who is also married. I first started to notice my BIL in […]

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SAVAGE LOVE: Mourning in America

Advice for those who feel like democracy has abandoned them.

Dear Readers: Well, fuck. Reading a sex-advice column at a time like this โ€” to say nothing of writing a sex-advice column at a time like this โ€” might seem a little pointless. But Iโ€™ve lived long enough to know that seemingly pointless distractions, small comforts, and guilty pleasures have the power to sustain us […]

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SAVAGE LOVE: Quickies

Get your advice lickety-split with the latest edition of Savage Love quickies!

1. This debate is raging again, Dan, and we need you to issue a ruling: Do straight women belong in gay bars? Some (straight women, gay bars), not all (straight women, gay bars). ย 2. Why do men keep ghosting me after sex? Iโ€™m a 25-year-old woman. No clue. You couldโ€™ve had a string of bad […]

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