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“Dan Savage is a fascinating guy whose career I was in a position to follow from his Madison days up til now. His work has, over all these years, had a real impact on the culture, mostly in good ways, I think. And it’s been interesting to watch him try, in fits and starts, to develop a working ethics to go along with his more technical advice (in fact I’d like to write an essay on this very topic some day). It’s easy enough to see why that became necessary, since sex more than most aspects of human life is inescapably entwined with relationships, emotion, and all the dangerous vectors of intimacy.
Along those lines, I thought Savage was off with this: “But if he wasn’t ready to resume his romantic and sexual life, ANB, he had no right to be out there dating anyone, least of all a man who looks exactly like his rapist.”
