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For the book by the same author, see Savage Love (book). For other uses, see Savage Love (disambiguation).

Dan Savage (2005)

Savage Love is a syndicated sex-advice column by Dan Savage. The column appears weekly in several dozen newspapers, mainly free newspapers in the US and Canada, but also newspapers in Europe and Asia. It started in 1991 with the first issue of the Seattle weekly newspaper The Stranger.

Since October 2006, Savage has also recorded the Savage Lovecast, a weekly podcast version of the column, featuring telephone advice sessions.[1] Podcasts are released every Tuesday.

History

In 1991, Savage was living in Madison, Wisconsin, and working as a manager at a local video store that specialized in independent film titles.[2] There, he befriended Tim Keck, co-founder of The Onion, who announced that he was moving to Seattle to help start an alternative weekly newspaper titled The Stranger.[2] Savage "made the offhand comment that forever altered [his] life: 'Make sure your paper has an advice column – everybody claims to hate 'em, but everybody seems to read 'em'."[3] He typed up a sample column, and to his surprise Keck offered him the job.[4][5]

Since 2002, he has written the column at Eppie Lederer's desk, which he, a "lifelong fan" of her Ann Landers column, bought at auction after the noted advice columnist died.[6]

Savage stated in a February 2006 interview in The Onion's A.V. Club (which publishes his column) that he began the column with the express purpose of providing mocking advice to heterosexuals, since most straight advice columnists were "clueless" when responding to letters from gay people.[4]

Language

During the run of Savage Love, Savage has popularized several neologisms and initialisms.

GGG

Savage coined "GGG",[7][8] "good, giving, and game", and it means one should strive to be good in bed, giving "equal time and equal pleasure" to one's partner, and game "for anything – within reason".[8] The term inspired the "How GGG Are You? Test" on dating site OkCupid, and the invention of a cocktail.[7]

Pegging

Main article: Pegging (sexual practice)

In 2001, Savage challenged readers of his column to coin a name for the sex act in which a woman uses a strap-on dildo to perform anal sex on her male partner. After multiple nominations and a reader vote, the verb "peg" was chosen, with a 43% plurality over runners-up "bob" and "punt".[9]

Santorum

Main articles: Campaign for the neologism "santorum" and Rick Santorum's views on homosexuality

Savage reacted strongly to statements made about homosexuality by former United States Senator Rick Santorum in an April 2003 interview with the Associated Press.[10] Santorum included gay sex as a form of deviant sexual behavior, along with incest, polygamy, and bestiality, that he said threatens society and the family; he said that he believed consenting adults do not have a constitutional right to privacy with respect to sexual acts.[11] Savage invited his readers to create a sex-related definition for "santorum" to "memorialize the Santorum scandal [...] by attaching his name to a sex act that would make his big, white teeth fall out of his big, empty head."[12] The winning definition was "the frothy mixture of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex."[13] Savage set up a website to spread the term, inviting bloggers and others to link to it, which caused it to rise to the top of a Google search for Santorum's name.[14]

References

  1. ^ "Dan Savage". Podcasts.thestranger.com. Archived from the original on December 6, 2010. Retrieved March 19, 2011.
  2. ^ a b "GLBTQ Literature: Dan Savage". GLBTQ.com. Archived from the original on June 4, 2011.
  3. ^ Dan Savage, Introduction, Savage Love: Straight Answers from America's Most Popular Sex Columnist (New York: Plume, 1998), p. 2.
  4. ^ a b Dan Savage interviewed by Tasha Robinson, The A.V. Club, February 8, 2006.
  5. ^ Dan Savage, Introduction, Savage Love: Straight Answers from America's Most Popular Sex Columnist, op. cit., pp. 1–5.
  6. ^ Savage, Dan (December 5, 2002). "Ann Advises On". The Stranger. Retrieved September 20, 2008.
  7. ^ a b Ken Walczak, "The GGG Cocktail", www.good.is, May 9, 2012 (accessed December 26, 2012) ("Dan is best known for two things: his advice that partners in any relationship strive to be Good, Giving, and Game (GGG) and ...").
  8. ^ a b DebHerbenick. "Science proves it: Dan Savage is right". Salon.
  9. ^ Dan Savage, We Have a Winner!. The Stranger, June 21, 2001. Accessed April 7, 2013.
  10. ^ "Excerpt from Santorum interview". USA Today. April 23, 2003. ISSN 0734-7456.
  11. ^ Excerpt from Santorum in an interview: "...if the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, ... [y]ou have the right to anything. Does that undermine the fabric of our society? I would argue yes, it does.", USA Today, April 23, 2003
  12. ^ Savage, Dan. "Bill, Ashton, Rick", The Stranger, May 15, 2003.
  13. ^ Savage, Dan. "Gas Huffer", The Stranger, June 12, 2003.
  14. ^ Mencimer, Stephanie. "Rick Santorum's Anal Sex Problem", Mother Jones, September/October 2010.

External links

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