Savage Love: Straight Answers from America's Most Popular Sex Columnist

by Dan Savage

Paperback, 1998

Status

Available

Call number

HQ21 .S264

Genres

Collection

Your library

Publication

Penguin Books (1998), Edition: First Printing, 368 pages

Description

Welcome to the hot new wave of writing about sex: Savage Love. Columnist Dan Savage has hand-picked over 300 letters from six years worth of "Savage Love," a no-holds-barred syndicated sex-advice column which runs in 16 papers in the United States and Canada, including The Village Voice and the San Francisco Weekly. An original and funny thinker, thrashing around in the playground of human sexuality, Savage advises on a wide range of titillating topics:* What is the best seduction music?* How do I come out to my fundamentalist parents?* What is so wonderful about intercourse, anyway?Forget Anka Radakovich and Isadora Altman. Tune in to Dan Savage as he answers these questions and much more in his own uniquely irreverent and sexually spunky style.… (more)

User reviews

LibraryThing member bookwormteri
Entertaining. What else is there to say?
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LibraryThing member MiaCulpa
Early work by Dan Savage, before he became a behemoth of publishing. It's a collection of Savage's "Savage Love" advice column (as well as its predecessor "Hey Faggot"), answering questions on such a range of sexuality (or perverseness, depending on your point of view) with a level of frankness not
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 seen in other advice columns.

There are some eye-opening questions and answers but quite a few come off a bit ho-hum. And I'm sure that the questions and answers from the mid-90s start to sound dated.
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LibraryThing member adzebill
Great argumentative sex advice. Interestingly dated: "polyamory" is mentioned in just one reply, with the implication it's a new and unfamiliar term.

Subjects

Love Miscellanea
Man-woman relationships Miscellanea
Sex Miscellanea

Awards

Lambda Literary Award (Nominee — Humor — 1998)

Language

English

Original language

English

Physical description

368 p.; 5.3 inches

ISBN

0452278155 / 9780452278158

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