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Paperback
Publisher: Plume
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.
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| It's kinda OK... |
| Customer Rating: 3 out of 5 |
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According to the author, who is gay, he writes for straights in his column of which this book is a compilation. Personally, I didn't find it all that enlightening. Maybe he just picks the letters to which he can give a humorous response and the purpose of his columns isn't actually to instruct. The answers to his readers' questions were often flippant and dismissive. However, I did enjoy Dan Savage's other book "The Kid". If you're looking for humor of a sort, you might enjoy this book. If you're looking for answers about sex - keep looking.
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| Fun, yet helpful |
| Customer Rating: 4 out of 5 |
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I knew going in, that reading Savage Love was going to be fun and it was. But since this collection of advice columns was the actual advice, from time to time, because I could relate to what was being asked, the advice was helpful.
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| Too Smug says it all |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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Yep, he's harsh sometimes and not that big on empathy - but it isn't worth the trouble to empathize with everyone. And he gives good advice. Mostly though, empathy isn't all that funny, and he's the funniest advice columnist I've ever read, and he does it without giving bad advice. Word.
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| Funny, raunchy, and surprisingly moral |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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Dan Savage might hate to hear this, but he has a fairly conventional morality. Yes, that gay advocate of sexual pleasure, known from time to time to advocate infidelity, actually comes across as a person who, through hearing the whinings and self-deception of thousands of letter writers, has come to some general conclusions like: honesty is really a good idea in the long run, consideration will usually rebound in your favor, etc. No, nobody is going to read this book to hear from someone with a neoconservative ethics. You're going to read it to get some pointers on oral or anal sex, or for the laughs, or to learn about the best sex tip: talking to your partner about what you want.
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| Funny, raunchy, and surprisingly moral |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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Dan Savage might hate to hear this, but he has a fairly conventional morality. Yes, that gay advocate of sexual pleasure, known from time to time to advocate infidelity, actually comes across as a person who, through hearing the whinings and self-deception of thousands of letter writers, has come to some general conclusions like: honesty is really a good idea in the long run, consideration will usually rebound in your favor, etc. No, nobody is going to read this book to hear from someone with a neoconservative ethics. You're going to read it to get some pointers on oral or anal sex, or for the laughs, or to learn about the best sex tip: talking to your partner about what you want.
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