Dan Savage in this week's Savage Love, tackles one of my favorite activities - Pegging. He teams up with blogger and sex educator extraordinaries Violet Blue to answer people's questions about this misunderstood activity.What is pegging you ask? Here, I'll let Dan tell you:

But first, a few words about pegging?a/k/a strap-on sex?for recent high-school graduates and other new readers of this column. Once upon a time, women were doing guys in their asses with strap-on dildos, and it was good. But when a guy wanted to ask for it, or a girl wanted to propose it, they had to say, "Hey, would you be willing to do me/would you let me do you in the ass with a strap-on dildo?" Annoyed by this mouthful, a Savage Love reader suggested that I harness the collective wisdom of my freaky readers and come up with a name for girls fucking guys' butts, and "pegging" won. It's crisp, clean, and easily conjugated: He asked her to peg him; she loves pegging him; they pegged all night long.

If you're not already reading Savage Love on a weekly basis, I would highly recommend it. Although I can't say that I always agree with Dan's advice, it's always interesting to hear his take on someone's question and the questions themselves are illuminating. If you get nothing else from this column, you will realize that we all have amazingly different tastes and desires and yet we all seem to be insecure about them. In Dan's world (and mine) almost everyone is normal and his widely read sex positive column helps out more people than just those who write in.The other great thing about Savage Love is the writing. Having read other sex columns out there, I feel confident in saying that Savage Love is the funniest, wittiest and most knowledgeable sex column out there.Thanks Dan, and thanks for taking on Pegging. Whenever a straight couple walks into one of our stores looking for a harness and a dildo, I get a little fluttery inside. Hopefully your column will inspire even more boy/girl couples to take the plunge (no pun intended) into male anal play.Photo credit: Joe Newton