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Columns & Opinion, Savage Love Aug 10, 2020
Why get married?

On commitment, ultimatums, and masturbating into your wife’s used panties
- By Dan Savage
- Tags: Savage Love, marriage, kink

News & Politics, Feature Jul 30, 2020
No complaints

Roosevelt Myles spent 28 years in prison, only to be released into a world in lockdown. He's happier than he’s been in a long time.
- By Mari Cohen
- Tags: Feature, Roosevelt Myles, Tonya Crowder, Criminal Justice, murder, incarceration, wrongful conviction, marriage, coronavirus, COVID-19, black lives matter

City Life, Community Mar 27, 2020
When 'I do' quickly becomes 'you can’t'

How engaged couples and wedding industry professionals are coping with corona-related cancellations.
- By Brianna Wellen
- Tags: Community, wedding, marriage, coronavirus, couples, Patryck Kowalick, Kane Quilos, Katie Hutches, Andy Horigan, AJ Abelman

News & Politics, Feature Nov 20, 2019
‘The big house and the picket fence’

Tonya Crowder still dreams that she and her fiance, Roosevelt Myles—who’s been in prison for decades fighting what he says is a wrongful conviction—will one day build a life together somewhere “nice, quiet, and simple.”
- By Mari Cohen
- Tags: Feature, Roosevelt Myles, Tonya Crowder, Criminal Justice, murder, incarceration, wrongful conviction, marriage, Laquan McDonald, Jennifer Bonjean, Dennis J. Porter, Reynaldo Guevara, Area 5, Anthony Wojcik, prison

Columns & Opinion, Savage Love Oct 10, 2018
‘Help, I'm a real-life 47-year-old virgin!’

Dan offers advice for losing it in middle age, handling potentially destructive secrets, and more.
- By Dan Savage
- Tags: Savage Love, marriage, monogamy, cross-dressing, explicit photos, Facebook, Instagram, virginity, personals ads, cheating, friends with benefits, FWB, open relationship, polyamory, open marriage

Arts & Culture, Book Review Jul 12, 2017
Recommended
Seams from Scott McClanahan’s marriage

The Sarah Book, the author’s latest, is a “fictional” account of his personal experiences.
- By Dmitry Samarov
- Tags: Book Review, Scott McClanahan, The Sarah Book, marriage, divorce, Recommended

Arts & Culture, Book Review May 14, 2015
Kate Bolick's new book surveys the past, present, and future of the unmarried woman

And, in the process, determines that "spinsters" should no longer be sad
- By Aimee Levitt
- Tags: Book Review, Kate Bolick, Spinster: Making a Life of One's Own, Laura Kipnis, marriage, Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own, Wendy Wasserstein, Atlantic, Fannie Hurst, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "The Yellow Wallpaper", Herland, Neith Boyce, "The Bachelor Girl", Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth, Maeve Brennan, New Yorker, Alison Lurie, The War Between the Tates

Columns & Opinion, Savage Love May 14, 2015
When your partner is 'one of those women'

Advice for a married man put out by the female anatomy. Plus: more on the price(s) of admission
- By Dan Savage
- Tags: Savage Love, Dan Savage, Savage Love, clitoris, orgasm, marriage, transgender, cisgender, online dating, ejaculation

Columns & Opinion, Savage Love Mar 19, 2015
A cuckold's dilemma

And Dan Savage's three questions to ask yourself should you be so inclined. Plus: romantic love and open relationships, married love and a 12-year diet of blow jobs
- By Dan Savage
- Tags: Savage Love, Dan Savage, Savage Love, cuckolding, marriage, blow jobs, sexting, kink-positive, open relationship, spanking, cheating

Columns & Opinion, Savage Love Feb 5, 2015
Does a lifetime of lousy sex legitimize cheating?

Plus: Whistle-blowing in regard to your wife's sexual history, and reigniting a sex life without killing your husband
- By Dan Savage
- Tags: Savage Love, Dan Savage, Savage Love, marriage, libido, vibrator, cheating, extramarital affair, consensual sex, rape

Columns & Opinion, Savage Love Jan 29, 2015
Uncle Dan's grab bag

Safe sex with a dildo, three-way sex with an odd man out, and more
- By Dan Savage
- Tags: Savage Love, Dan Savage, Savage Love, threeways, dildo, masturbation, ass play, Jeneen Doumitt, She Bop, Portland, Oregon, polyamory, asexual, smoking, marriage

Columns & Opinion, Savage Love Nov 13, 2014
I'm poly and happy—do I have to come out?

Plus: caregiver or emotional intruder, a three-way or bust?
- By Dan Savage
- Tags: Savage Love, Savage Love, Dan Savage, nonmonogamous, polyamory, closeted, Catholic guilt, long-distance relationship, cancer, threeways, marriage

Blogs, Bleader Aug 20, 2014
Married . . . with chagrin on USA network's Satisfaction

A show about life after marriage is really whole lot of male fantasy.
- By Danette Chavez
- Tags: Arts, Small Screen, Satisfaction, marriage, USA network, Matt Passmore, Stephanie Szostak, Katherine LaNasa

Best of Chicago, City Life Jun 25, 2014
Critics' Picks
Best Love Story

Vernita Gray and Pat Ewert
- By Jake Malooley
- Tags: City Life, Best of Chicago 2014, love, marriage, Vernita Gray, Pat Ewert, same-sex marriage, Lambda Legal, Thomas Durkin, Cook County, Critics' Picks

Columns & Opinion, Savage Love Jun 12, 2014
Take my virginity, please!

Plus: Selling well-worn boxer briefs online, and coming to accept that your girlfriend has no interest in fucking you.
- By Dan Savage
- Tags: Savage Love, Dan Savage, Savage Love, high school, virginity, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Guttmacher Institute, Duncan Black, marriage, open relationship, lesbians

Columns & Opinion, Savage Love Apr 10, 2014
Paying for sex as geezerdom looms

Plus: Leading on a fortysomething you don't want to fuck, and the etiquette of thrill seeking.
- By Dan Savage
- Tags: Savage Love, sex work, prostitutes, marriage, long-term relationships, Savage Love, Dan Savage, bisexuality, kinks, fantasy, secret thrill

Columns & Opinion, Savage Love Mar 13, 2014
Keeping the faith

Plus: Getting your kinks in without the sex, and taking precautions before embarking on a fantasy facial
- By Dan Savage
- Tags: Savage Love, terminal disease, marriage, therapy, infidelity, divorce, BDSM, Midwest, bondage, vanilla sex, D/s, spanking, kinks, facial, feminism, gonorrhea, syphilis, chlamydia

News & Politics, Feature Mar 3, 2014
Yes, there are black Republicans in Chicago

A south-side GOP committeeman makes his case.
- By Steve Bogira
- Tags: Feature, elections, Republican Party, GOP, 28th Ward, Republican ballots, 17th Ward, west side, south side, party preference, Darnell Macklin, Republicans, black Republicans, African American Republicans, SSA, Social Security Administration, DHHS, Department of Health and Human Services, Harold Washington, Commission on Human Relations, independent voters, Republican voters, Civil Rights Act of 1964, Everett Dirksen, Lyndon Johnson, John F. Kennedy, Second Amendment, school vouchers, marriage, civil unions, Fatimah Macklin, 34th legislative district, Chatham, Kankakee County, Mark Ekhoff, John McCain, Mitt Romney, Barack Obama, election judges, Bruce Rauner, Pat Quinn, ward committeemen, 6th Ward, Republican committeemen

Columns & Opinion, Savage Love Feb 20, 2014
What's in it for the cuckold?

Plus: To use or not to use a Go Fuck Someone Else card, and is deep-throating dangerous?
- By Dan Savage
- Tags: Savage Love, marriage, divorce, Coast, Halifax, cuckolding, David J. Ley, Insatiable Wives: Women Who Stray and the Men Who Love Them, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, masochism, ejaculate, sperm, Valentine's Day, Go Fuck Someone Else card, gender-neutral, deep throating, snowboarding

Arts & Culture, Feature Feb 12, 2014
V-Day Issue: A duo that met on the dance floor

Aay Preston-Myint and Colin Dickson's first date "didn't just have a third wheel, it had 20."
- By Kevin Warwick
- Tags: Feature, Aay Preston-Myint, Colin Dickson, Parlour, metal fabricators, woodworkers, artists, instructors, bartenders, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, SAIC, Chances Dances, The Charleston, Analogue, dance parties, DJ Swaguerrilla, OKCupid, couples, Claire Arctander, Latham Zearfoss, Tess Kisner, Kristen Kaza, Slo-Mo, Crimson Glow, Bastardgeist, records, music, talk radio, cooking, baking, pies, Fat Rice, Small Bar, trivia, Netflix, movies, television, John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Grace Jones, Dolph Lundgren, vacations, marriage, dancing

Columns & Opinion, Savage Love Jan 16, 2014
Bucking Mother Nature

Plus: A newly out nephew on the prowl and not-so-heavy petting sans the panting, writhing, and begging
- By Dan Savage
- Tags: Savage Love, marriage, mothers, hot steamy eye fuck, gay allies, verbal communication, gay man, erection, heavy petting, monogamish, threesome, performance anxiety

Columns & Opinion, Savage Love Dec 19, 2013
Straight-people problems

Women can propose marriage too! Plus: Can a gay guy fulfill his fantasies with a pro dom?
- By Dan Savage
- Tags: Savage Love, marriage, New York Times, Stephen Marche, housework, gender roles, Mahatma Gandhi, Hong Kong, femdom porn, BDSM, asexual, therapist

Columns & Opinion, Savage Love Dec 12, 2013
Sex drive over a cliff

Another story of mismatched libidos. Plus: Can poly people get in on the acronym game?
- By Dan Savage
- Tags: Savage Love, libido, condoms, sexually transmitted infections, marriage, Polyamorous, LGBT, David Jay, Asexual Visibility and Education Network, asexuality, leather fetish, intersex, queer, questioning, Washington State

Columns & Opinion, Savage Love Nov 7, 2013
Septuagenarian seeks submissive sex

Plus: Does marriage spell the end of adventuring?
- By Dan Savage
- Tags: Savage Love, marriage, kinks, vanilla sex, BDSM, Joan Price, Naked at Our Age: Talking Out Loud About Senior Sex, leather fetish, The Ultimate Guide to Kink: BDSM, Role Play and the Erotic Edge, Cleis Press, Tristan Taormino, Mollena Williams, Lee Harrington, Playing Well With Others: Your Field Guide to Discovering, Exploring and Navigating the Kink, Leather and BDSM Communities, children, parenting

Blogs, Bleader Sep 6, 2013
In praise of trash

A defense of the much-maligned romance novel.
- By Aimee Levitt
- Tags: Books, Arts, Women's Issues, romance novel, genre fiction, publishing, Chretien de Troyes, Harlequin, Jennifer Crusie, Fast Women, Diana Gabaldon, Outlander, comfort reading, marriage, Romance Writers of America

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