Jezebel: Savage Love

Is Dan Savage Our Ann Landers?

Sadie Stein — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 16:00:00 EST

Is Dan Savage our generation's Ann Landers? And is that a good thing? More »

Savage To Take Chastity Belts To TV?

Anna North — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:30:00 EDT

Dan Savage is in talks with HBO about a possible show based on Savage Love. Savage says the show would be "my sex-advice column—but on the teevee!" Potential pilot topic: chastity belts. [Editor & Publisher, SeattlePI] More »

Advice On Advice: Rating Internet Advice Columns

Anna North — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:00:00 EDT

Advice columns are a little like cats: they may not actually do much, but they're fun to look at. Also like cats, not all advice columns are created equal. After the jump, we grade a few of the major players. More »

Savage Love Commenters Don't Know Assault When They See It

Anna North — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:30:00 EST

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In his newest column, Dan Savage gets it mostly right in his response to DREAD, who was raped by her ex-boyfriend. Some commenters on his site, however, get it oh-so-wrong. More »

Savage Hate

Anna Holmes — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:45:00 EDT

All week, readers have been writing in about advice-giver Dan Savage's latest column, in which Jezebel — specifically our response to that awful 'Dear Abby' feature from last week — gets a negative mention. Personally, I didn't care one way or another about Savage's slam, but Moe sure did! With every email from a reader that came in, she shot off a response to the entire staff. Click on Savage's picture to read her increasingly-irate responses! More »

"Edgy" New New York Press Sex Columnist Stole Incest Question From Dan Savage

Moe — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:30:41 EST

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Yesterday a brand-new sex advice column debuted in the New York Press, and an editor at the paper sent me a pitch, wondering if I would link to it. And because it not only featured answers to questions about the sanitary properties of urine and whether it's "gay" to fuck a tranny, but "I came home to find my live-in girlfriend GIVING HER BROTHER A GIANT BONER", I wrote a post wondering just how Claudia Lonow, a former child star best known for her work in Knots Landing, went about the process of finding such shocking, edgy questions without, you know, having an established stream of pervs like Dan Savage. Well, it turned out she just stole them from Dan Savage. After the jump, the evidence — and my rant about what this means. More »