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[Contains explicit content] Susie has a show from 2006 for you to enjoy. Her special guest that week was Gina Trapani, editor of one of Susie's favorite blogs for simultaneously wasting and saving time: Lifehacker.com. Susie and Gina explore the reasons why people aren't looking for more timesaving and geeky ways to improve their sex lives and much more.

Contains explicit content] Susie invites you to enjoy an interview from 2012 with one of her favorite authors. In Hanne Blank's Straight: The Surprisingly Short History of Heterosexuality she delves into the history of how hetero was created and marketed around the time of World War II. Susie and Hanne talk about heterosexuality as a middle-class notion, medical science, and understandings about sexuality. Is there really a gay brain versus a straight brain?

[Contains explicit content] Here at In Bed if someone describes you as having "a dirty mind", we call that a compliment. Susie's guest today, author Nicholson Baker, has been defined that way and in many more. The New York Times called him the "mad scientist of smut". Susie and Nicholson discuss his steamy book House of Holes - a book of raunch, filled with fantasy and wild pleasures. Among the outrageous scenes: what happens when want to exchange your right arm for a gigantic penis.

[Contains explicit content] It's the second part of Susie's rare interview with porn star Jamie Gillis from 2007. Jamie talks about how his family supported his work and what porn stars know about getting themselves off that other people don't. Then, from the mailbag, Susie is admonished by a listener whose son has autism and who wonders how she can support her son's sexuality.

[Contains explicit content] Please enjoy another show from 2007! Susie weighs in on the Georgia case of Genarlow Wilson who, at 17, was sentenced to 10 years for getting a blow job from a 15-year-old girl. Susie says it's just another example of how out of touch and hypocritical Georgia lawmakers are. Then, its Part 1 of a rare two-part interview with one of the most important figures in porn history, Jamie Gillis. Jamie's career began in the '70s as a starring stud, and by the '80s he was directing.

[Contains explicit content] Please enjoy this show from 2007! Susie is in the studio with Erica Jong, author of eight novels, but best known for her 1973 work, Fear of Flying. Susie asks Erica about how her sex life has changed as she's gotten older. Erica says she's gone from the "nurse or purse" scenario with older or much younger lovers, to seeing sex as a whole-body experience. Next, they talk about raising sexually strong girls and why Jane Austen would be chick-lit today.

[Contains explicit content] Susie reads one of her favorite stories from Best American Erotica 1999: "Three Obscene Phone Calls" by Marian Phillips. In each of the three calls, the callee relishes turning the tables on the caller. Then, Susie discusses a British documentary about jacking off elephants. And from the mailbag, Susie hears from a man who's starting to become sexually active and who's scared of what he desires.

[Contains explicit content] Susie would like you to enjoy a show from 2002. Susie finds "family friendly" editions of Titanic hitting the video store shelves. Next, Susie invites one of her favorite sex radicals into the studio for the first of a two-part interview. Staci Haines is the author of A Survivor's Guide to Sex: How to Have a Great Sex Life After Sexual Abuse. In a warm and fascinating discussion, Susie talks with Staci about the process of sexual healing for incest survivors.

[Contains explicit content] Susie would like you to enjoy a show from 2004. She hears a juicy sex dispatch from a listener in North Dakota regarding a sex columnist fired from the local student paper. Then, after years of debunking tantric sex, Susie's finally found a book that makes the practice seem down-right interesting, at least historically. It's called Tantra: Sex, Secrecy, Politics and Power in the Study of Religion by Hugh B. Urban. Finally, from the mailbag, Susie answers a personal question about juggling her open relationship and her family.

[Contains explicit content] Susie would like you to hear an interview from 2011 with Jennifer Palais on how to declutter more then just your old yearbooks and scrapbooks. Jennifer helps organize people's love lives. Not just where to put the lube and ropes, but how to bid adieu to the painful remnants of a broken love affair.

[Contains explicit content] Susie's wants you to enjoy a show from 2004. Her guest is former Penthouse editor Lavada Nahon. Lavada reveals the truth behind some of the magazine's best-known columns, including "Penthouse Letters". She also talks about some of her own sexual and personal awakenings while at Penthouse, including a sex scandal that hit a bit too close to home. Then, from the mailbag, Susie reads some sexy movie reviews.

[Contains explicit content] Susie's invites you to listen to a 2005 interview with Jen Sincero, author of the hilarious and wise how-to book The Straight Girl's Guide to Sleeping with Chicks. Jen and Susie share notes on the thrills of sleeping with women and offer tips on how you too can make your sexual fantasies a reality. Then, it's the "Try This at Home" mailbag,.Jen Sincero sticks around to help Susie with a letter from a man who says he'd do just about anything to help his wife get in touch with her sexual fantasies.

[Contains explicit content] Susie catches up with Tristan Taormino. They explore extreme tickling, how to fix a leather contest, and "WTF happened to the porn business?"

[Contains explicit content] Please enjoy this show from 2014. Susie interviews Eric Schaefer, author of Sex Scene: Media and the Sexual Revolution. Professor Schaefer teaches at Emerson College. His book looks at exploitation and sexploitation within films, tabloids, novels, and audio recordings. Then Susie introduces us to a sexy, must-listen audiobook: Lust in Latex: Rubber Sex Stories, edited by Rebecca Kramer Bussel. Susie loves this book because there are endless ways to combine sex and latex - some kinky, some fetish - and all of the stories are steamy hot.

[Contains explicit content] We're talking prostate massage and prostate milking today. What? You don't know about this? It's sometimes done by doctors for medical reasons. But it can also be a sexy, fun adventure done at home for your pleasure and health too. Next, it's "Tell Me Your Sex Story": Listeners tell Susie all kinds of personal intimate details about their sex lives as she invites these "regular folk" to enter her sexual confession booth.

[Contains explicit content] Susie wants to share a special show from 2004, with her special guest, her dad. In his second appearance on In Bed, linguist Bill Bright talks about his book Native American Place Names in the United States. He explains why you shouldn't call either a Native American woman or a mountain top "squaw" and gives the fascinating secret sex history of many common place names. Then, in her mailbag, Susie explains the giggles and guffaws of tickling fetishes.

[Contains explicit content] Susie has an inmate conversation with author Juan F. Thompson, son of gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson. Susie was a friend of Hunter's. Juan was the one person Hunter trusted completely. They discuss the nitty-gritty of Hunter's writing struggles, his sexual point of view, what being a man in full meant to him, and living up to a mythic, impossible reputation.

[Contains explicit content] Susie starts off by recalling the glory days of Good Vibrations, the revolutionary women's vibrator store. Next, an interview from 2007 with legendary women's masturbation teacher and author Betty Dodson. Susie and Betty discuss the G-Spot, intergenerational sex, and what it was like when Mom asked her about her clitoris. Then, Susie reads a letter from a young woman who describes her kinky road to coming of age.

[Contains explicit content] Susie talks to writer Steven Gaines. His memoir One of These Things First is about growing up gay in Brooklyn and his time in the Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic. And then, it's on Audible: The Cigar Factory, a story of two families in South Carolina during the world wars.

[Contains explicit content] For anyone that lived through the 1980s AIDS crisis, watching friends dying like it was the apocalypse, it seems unthinkable that today's students don't know about this recent history. And then, what's on Audible: Dryland by Sara Jaffe takes place in 1992 in Portland, Oregon. Young teenager Julie is unexcited about life until she meets the swim team captain, who is trying to recruit her. It's a dare and a flirtation with many twists and family intrigues.