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[Contains explicit content] Susie looks at the way that the system of sex offender registries has run amok. Next, Star Trek boldly goes where many, many TV and movie franchises have gone before and includes an openly gay couple. Finally, it's "New on Audible": Saleema Nawaz's Bone and Bread is a heart-breaking look at sisterhood and regret.

[Contains explicit content] Susie looks at a revolution in French sexual education. Next, she shares Cecilia Tan's timeless erotic story "Pearl Diver". Then, it's "What's on Audible": Haruki Murakami's 1Q84.

[Contains explicit content] Susie explores the Christian community's pro-life contradictions. Does a mother deserve respect for choosing not to abort? Next, Anthony Scaramucci only spent 10 days as the White House comm director but Susie can already tell you all about his sex life. And in "New on Audible", online porn gets the This American Life treatment.

[Contains explicit content] Susie has a provocative interview with Jesse Bering, author of PERV: The Sexual Deviant in All of Us. They take a candid look at why we all have some perversion - and why it isn't as bad as we think. Then, from the listener mailbag: "My wife is certain my interest in anal sex makes me gay - now what can I do?"

[Contains explicit content] Susie presents a show from 2014, when she spoke with legendary author Walter Mosley. His book Debbie Doesn't Do It Anymore is about a woman who has had it with the porn industry. Mosley is well known for his best-selling mystery series featuring Easy Rawlins.

Today's show is a primer for spicing up your sex life. Susie takes us from how to participate in a kinky, successful three-way to the opposite extreme of achieving orgasm in the missionary position. Then, Susie responds to a listener who really, really wants help with having an orgasm.

[Contains explicit content] Today's show was first presented in 2011, and it is all about joysticks for Jacks and Jills. Susie interviews video gamer and erotic author Shanna Germain. And, surprise, many gamers are regular people, including plenty of female devotees. Shanna and Susie talk about how sex finds its way into some popular programs and "Do they make queer and bisexually themed games?"

[Contains explicit content] Susie presents Who Killed Hunter S. Thompson?, the gonzo art-memoir-history of our dearly departed. Next, The Mitchell Brothers' O'Farrell Theater is no more; the night manager locked up and the building has been sold.

Susie looks at a new study showing why Americans are having less sex then ever. Next, a map that shows all the names given to syphilis before it was "syphilis" doubles as a guide to national prejudice. And finally, it's "New on Audible": a very special edition of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale.

[Contains explicit content] James Elroy's The Black Dahlia sheds light on "trafficking" in 1940s Los Angles. Next, have we found the holy grail of birth control? And then it's "New on Audible": Love and Trouble: A Midlife Reckoning is the new memoir from Claire Dederer.

Susie looks at the sex abuse scandal in the world of competitive gymnastics. Next, we all know our social media lives are curated to project an image, but Melania Trump's Twitter feed reveals an awful lot about her secret wishes. And finally, it's "New on Audible": San Francisco Noir.

Susie catches up with Tristan Taormino about extreme tickling, how to fix a leather contest, and "WTF happened to the porn business?"

[Contains explicit content] Susie looks at the changes in the ways people consume porn - is it changing our sex lives? Next, it's the great pole debate. Amateur pole dancers want to express themselves erotically, but don't call them strippers! And finally, from the mailbag: "My boyfriend refuses to have good old-fashioned penis vagina sex. What's up?"

[Contains explicit content] Susie remembers those who lost their lives in the Pulse nightclub. Next, the tale of Ada Menken, the 19th-century stage ingenue who lived fast, died young, and was both lusted after and shamed for it. And finally, it's "What's on Audible": Perhaps it’s time to revisit King Lear.

[Contains explicit content] Susie talks about taboos and fantasies, and what to do when race is part of the equation. Then it's "New on Audible": Minka Kent's The Memory Watcher is the sexy, whiplash-inducing thriller that's now topping the Bright List.

Susie talks to Rachel Kramer Bussel about resistance porn, Monica Lewinsky, and her favorite buttercream for cupcakes and breasts.

[Contains explicit content] Susie looks at what's behind the torture camps for accused "sexual deviants" in Chechnya. Next, what exactly were those guys behind the doomed Frye Festival selling? And finally, it's "New on Audible": Startup: A Novel by Doree Shafrir, takes a look at sexual insanity in the tech world.

Susie talks to author and scholar Laura Kipnis about her new book Unwanted Advances, which looks at Title IX in higher education and its effect on sexual paranoia and free speech.

Susie finds herself in the magazine she's always dreamed of.... Next, straight girls have fewer orgasms than anyone else on earth - and why that's funny, tragic, and infuriating. And finally, from the mailbag: A listener asks why all the abortion arguments focus on life and death situations and not elective abortions.

Susie talks to novelist James Grainger. His book Harmless explores sex and masculinity in the aging Gen-X crowd. How do you write one sex scene to thrill and another to horrify? Titillation and sexual reality; threading the needle.