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Dan Savage Looks At What Has Changed In The 30 Years He's Been Giving Sex Advice

Savage has a new book celebrating 30 years writing his sex advice column "Savage Love." He talked with NPR about where he's been wrong, what's changed, and why gay people know more about sex.
Dan Savage, pictured in 2016, has a new book of essays. He talked with NPR about what he's learned over 30 years of writing sex advice.

It's been 30 years since Dan Savage started his column "Savage Love," where he answers questions about sex, love and relationships.

He's celebrating the anniversary with a new book, Savage Love from A to Z, which is an illustrated collection of essays with one for each letter of the alphabet.

Things have changed a lot from when he started writing about sex in The Stranger, Seattle's alternative weekly newspaper, in 1991.

For one, the way he got questions from readers: He got letters in the mail.

"I got to look at people's handwriting, which was always really interesting and revealing," Savage tells NPR's Ari Shapiro on . "You know, if somebody wrote me on a legal pad with

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