

Dear Readers: It’s my birthday this week — thank you very much — and I’ve retreated to a secret, undisclosed location (without Internet access!) to ignore, er, celebrate the occasion. So, in place of a regular column (you ask, I answer) below you’ll find some questions I posted to Struggle Session, a weekly bonus column where I respond to comments from my readers and listeners. “Never read the comments” is standard advice for anyone who goes online — and it’s damn good advice —but Savage.Love is the exception to that rule: it’s the one and only place online where you should read the comments, thanks to the wonderful community there. So, here are some letters that I posted to Struggle Session and invited Savage Love commenters to respond to. Oh, and as a little gift to regular readers, there’s no paywall on the last third of this week’s...