Savage Love
Choke hold
Dear Dan: I’ve recently discovered that being pinned down by my neck is a huge turn on for me. I love the feeling of...
Dumplings
Dear Dan I’ve been living with my boyfriend for a year. We met on FetLife and I was honest about being in an open...
What do I tell the stripper?; Bye reader
Dear Dan: My partner and I have been playing with male chastity devices. We’ve been considering going to a strip club while his cock...
Everybody hurts, everybody cries
Dear Dan: My ex-boyfriend and I were together for a year and a half. He is a silver fox who is significantly older than...
More feet; Understanding my attractions; Election blues
Dear Dan: I’m a 35-year-old man in a serious relationship — the best I’ve ever been in — with a girl I’ll likely marry....
Open ended
Dear Dan: I’m a mid-20s cis straight man. After my girlfriend and I finished college, she moved overseas to start her job. We’ve broken...
Sanitized meeting stories; Bad advice, Dan
Dear Dan: If I first met someone on a hookup site or at a sex party and then we start seeing each other, what’s...
Savage Love | Week of May 9, 2013
Dear Dan: I’m a 24-year-old straight, married female. I have been religiously reading your column in the Portland Mercury since I was 16. Thank you for explaining things that my parents wouldn’t and for helping me clear the hurdles of adolescence...
Savage Love | Week of November 28, 2013
Dear Dan: I recently ended a relationship that lasted a year and five months. While I loved this woman, for much of the relationship she was, to varying degrees, depressed. I tried to be as helpful and patient as possible with the hope and expectation that she would ...
Dan Savage fills in for Dan Savage
DEAR READERS: I’m on vacation for the next three weeks — but you won’t be reading old columns while I’m away. You’ll be getting...
The casserole
Dear Dan: Something is bothering me and I don’t know where else to turn. I’m a bisexual man. I’ve been married to a great...









