It’s a savage world out there. Not to mention a Savage Universe, a Savage Nation teeming with Savage Truth and Savage Love.  It may seem that just about anybody with last name Savage offers up an advice column, website or book, covering a broad spectrum of subject matter ranging from the financial world to brash and biting conservative commentaries. The final Savage on our list covers: the more colorful side of sex kinks and relationship woes.  Perhaps the name brings out the animal instincts required for columnists. or so it is the case with a man named Dan.

He's not just an openly gay American, but an author, former theatre director, editor of the Seattle weekly The Stranger, "pop culture guru", though he doesn't particularly approve of that title, and creator of the internationally syndicated sex advice column aptly titled Savage Love. He can tackle just about any intrepid, insipid, or appallingly bizarre question. He wades in strange and sometimes treacherous waters where any average God-fearing working class human wouldn’t dare to tread, providing sound advice about things that most people fight hard to keep behind closed doors. When I asked him if there is anything that he wouldn't dare publish he replied, "No in fact, at this point the weirder the question the likelier I am to publish it. I try not to publish things I know are baloney. But the column has always entertained questions about very esoteric things, and I approach them with a sort of level-headed affection for people whose sexual desires are far, far, far, from the mainstream. So yeah, I will write about anything… I won’t do anything. One of the burdens of writing a column like that is I meet people and they think that because I have written about jerking off parakeets that I myself enjoy jerking off parakeets- and that is not the case."
The Kid: What Happened After My Boyfriend and I Decided to Get Pregnant. (An Adoption Story), and Skipping Towards Gomorrah: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Pursuit of Happiness in America are only two of the novels to which he can lay claim. Both novels would be unnervingly diabolical is if they weren’t delivered in such a chipper, lighthearted voice.
His newest book, The Commitment: Love, Sex, Marriage, and My Family, dives into the spine of a most controversial issue: gay marriage. It is a fiercely cinematic memoir that follows the arch of an interesting contingency of key players. Terry the boyfriend of 10 years doesn't "want to act like straight people, and marriage would be  pretty straight of us." He'd just as well get matching "Property Of…" tattoos. Ironically, DJ the adopted six-year-old son pretty much carries the mantra "boys don't marry boys." The mother, a Catholic woman who believes marriage should be a formal commitment, wants them to get married.
There is also Eddie, the brother with the ominous Jenny tattoo. The one who is caught and dragged though the eye of this onslaught is the protagonist himself: Dan Savage. His sly, satirical and sometimes even biting humor bears a tone that reads "It can only happen to me." Sometimes even striking superstition, the Old Testament and the election in a few fell sentences. "Good Catholics don't presume. The moment you start to expect things to continue going along nicely for you-- the moment you begin to believe that you're worthy of the good things in your life- God gets all Old Testament on your ass and does something viscous, something insane, something totally uncalled for. He gives you lupus or he allows Satan to slaughter your children and cattle, or He delivers Ohio to George W. Bush."
Though our plot thickens and twists, draws to the climax and crashes to the ending-- or perhaps it is the false ending. He’s a Savage man, using humor as a vehicle to drive the meaning, owning the ability to have others laugh at his own expense.  Perhaps he is the embodiment of controversy, stemming the tide of the incessantly preached, side-stepping the politically correct. Instead of suppressing, why not, embrace your fetishes, he decrees.