This program contains course language, mature themes, and the strong opinions of Dan Savage.
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I'm Dan Savage, I'm a true defender of marriage,
and I am about to stand up for an anti-gay 
adulterous republican governor.
I think a marriage
is more important, and perhaps something more valuable, 
than sexually exclusivity flawlessly executed over many decades. 
Maybe you've heard of Arnold Schwarzenegger: movie star, Governor of California for a little while,
cheater of/on Maria Shriver. 
Rumor has it, it's bubbling up through the blogs, that they may get back together. 
And people are freaking out about this.
Because, "Oh, Maria, shouldn't get back together with him, he's a cad and a womanizer."
You tell a story about meeting her mother 
at this event.
Do you remember what you said to her about Maria? 
I said, "Your daughter has a great ass."
And I think people don't really realize what attracts a woman 
like Maria Shriver to a guy live Arnold Schwarzenegger in the first place. 
They think they can change them. They think, "for me, he'll settle down, my ass is enough."
"all the other asses in all the world weren't enough for him but"
"my ass is so spectacular"
"that once he's got access to mine he will want no other asses."
This is always not true. 
Right? As everyone always discovers in the end. 
Always not true. Someone who likes a lot of ass will always like a lot of ass. 
The same thing has kind of played out with Katy Perry's divorce. 
She married Russell Brand, who was a bad boy, and a drug user, and a  womanizer...
Why would she married him if monogamy
and faithfulness was so important to her?
Why didn't she marry a nice guy who didn't use drugs and 
go through pussy like the dumpster behind a vet's office, right?
Maria chose Arnold. 
Katy Perry chose Rusell Brand. They knew who they were. 
going in
They either felt they could change them. 
Or the womanizing, and the catishness, and the bad boy thing 
was attractive.
I think it's better that Maria get back together with Arnold. 
If she could admit that part of what I like about him is that 
He's into ass. He's into a lot of ass. 
And he's a womanizer, part of what draws me to him 
is his appetite for pussy and mine is 
maybe not enough but it's mostly enough.
Right? Mine is the one he chooses to have regular access to.
Yours he might fuck around with every once in a while
just cause
but I'm the ass he married!
We tell people who've been cheated on that they have to get divorced. 
People were angry at Hilary in the wake, the immediate wake, of the Monica Lewinsky scandal that
she didn't leave Bill right away. That she should divorce him, that she had no other choice.
Why? Why couldn't she make another choice? No one says that to Hilary now. 
We all recognize now that Hilary did the right thing. 
I am trying to save and conserve marriages by encouraging people to be realistic about cheating. 
Not that it isn't a betrayal-- if you have a monogamous commitment 
and your partner cheats on you. 
But it is almost inevitable that in every long term, multi-decade marriage 
one, or the other, or both partners will cheat. And then what?
And what we say now is, "well, then divorce."
Why not then Bill and Hilary? Why not then the Spitzers?  Why not then Maria and Arnold, 
if they can work it out? Why can't that be our model? 
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Do you know that the human male penis looks like? 
And how it functions in the vaginal canal? As a plunger!
