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Dan Savage’s latest Savage Love<\/a><\/em> column has letters from readers detailing childhood misconceptions about sex<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Troubled, I asked my dad how I was born. “Well, your mother and I decided to have you and then . . . ” He stopped. “I’ll tell you when you’re 14.” Fourteen?! Unwilling to wait that long, I found a book in the children’s section of the library about human reproduction and got my answer. The penis-in-vagina model was still disturbing to me at seven, but it was better than the my-mom-guzzles-pee model. So I was able to feel OK about being kissed by my mother again . . . until I learned about oral sex.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

This is the column that defined santorum<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dan Savage’s latest Savage Love column has letters from readers detailing childhood misconceptions about sex. Troubled, I asked my dad how I was born. “Well, your mother and I decided to have you and then . . . ” He stopped. “I’ll tell you when you’re 14.” Fourteen?! Unwilling to wait that long, I found […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","_bluesky_dont_syndicate":"1","_bluesky_syndication_accounts":"","_bluesky_syndication_text":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-virtu"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":51,"url":"https:\/\/shadowfoot.com\/footprint\/2004\/09\/01\/school_days\/","url_meta":{"origin":38,"position":0},"title":"School days","author":"Brian","date":"1 September 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"I know US schools are portrayed in a bad light in the media, a lot worse than NZ schools, but I didn't expect it to be this extreme. I'm glad I didn't go to Friendswood. I was very introverted at school. I didn't fit in with the other nerds, knowing\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Background"","block_context":{"text":"Background","link":"https:\/\/shadowfoot.com\/footprint\/category\/background\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":99,"url":"https:\/\/shadowfoot.com\/footprint\/2004\/09\/28\/psycho_boss\/","url_meta":{"origin":38,"position":1},"title":"Psycho Boss","author":"Brian","date":"28 September 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"I can't find an online link to it, but I've been reading an article from Sunday, the supplement to the Sunday Star Times. (I didn't buy it; my flatmate left it lying around.) The article is about the psycho boss. I had one of them, followed by the greatest boss\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Background"","block_context":{"text":"Background","link":"https:\/\/shadowfoot.com\/footprint\/category\/background\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":89,"url":"https:\/\/shadowfoot.com\/footprint\/2004\/09\/22\/family\/","url_meta":{"origin":38,"position":2},"title":"Family","author":"Brian","date":"22 September 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"I tuned in halfway through to TV One's News Debate: The State of The New Zealand Family. The debate needed to be about parenting, not families. I grew up in a loving family. It wasn't a nuclear family, not after my father died when I was six. My mother raised\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Family"","block_context":{"text":"Family","link":"https:\/\/shadowfoot.com\/footprint\/category\/family\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":76,"url":"https:\/\/shadowfoot.com\/footprint\/2004\/09\/15\/my-left-foot\/","url_meta":{"origin":38,"position":3},"title":"My Left Foot","author":"Brian","date":"15 September 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"That title will screw up people's expectations in the search engines. I'm already making the title of each entry a permalink to the individual post, and as a

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