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Susie's guest this week 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. Susie and Lavada worked together on an erotic collection called Between the Sheets, which is available at audible.com®.

This week, Susie continues part 2 of her conversation with sexpert Tristan Taormino. A few years ago, Tristan made the leap into big-time porn when she convinced John Stagliano, a.k.a Buttman, to produce the movie of her book The Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Women. Tristan and Buttman argued over details, but what they ended up with is one of the best selling porn movies about anal sex on the market. Tristan and Susie also talk about the real life sex of sexperts.

Susie meets her match this week in this first of a two-part interview with sexpert Tristan Taormino. Tristan is a writer, editor, sex educator, and sometimes fetish model, performer, and porn producer. She's written three books: The Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Women, True Lust: Adventures in Sex, Porn and Perversion, and Pucker Up: A Hands-On Guide to Ecstatic Sex. She's a regular a regular columnist for The Village Voice, Taboo and On Our Backs.

Susie is in the studio this week with John Vollmer, the curator of a new exhibit at the Museum of Sex in New York City. The exhibit is called "Sex Among the Lotus: 2500 Years of Chinese Erotic Obsession". In this fascinating discussion, Susie and John Vollmer talk about erotic images in Chinese art and culture, starting with the Lotus and the sexual charged practice of foot binding all the way through the current trends in Chinese pornography.

Susie's NYC interviews are here! Susie kicks off the series by talking with Robin Adams and Micole Taggart, the women behind Sweet Action Magazine (www.sweetactionmag.com). Sweet Action is one of the rarest of porn mags, created by straight women for straight women. It features lots of nude pictures of hunky men and some tips-and-tricks articles to help straight women improve their game.

Before Susie launches into her NYC interview series, she's talks to a more local guest, her dad. In his second appearance on In Bed, linguist Bill Bright talks about his new book Native American Place Names in the United States. He explains why you shouldn't call either a Native American woman or mountain top squaw and gives the fascinating secret sex history of many common place names. Then, in her Try This at Home mailbag, Susie explains the giggles and guffaws of tickling fetishes.

Susie's has an even more scandalous update for those of you following her fight against Pay Pal. It turns out Pay Pal's new policy against selling "indecent" material is just the tip of the iceberg of a much bigger scam. Also in the news, Susie has an update on the Bush administration's recent efforts to reduce funding of NIH programs researching sexual behavior. Then, in her mailbag, Susie gets a letter from a woman who's just starting to explore her sexual feelings and a man who'd like to tone his down.

Susie weighs in on some pressing pop culture issues this week. First, she has her review of Showtime's new series about LA lesbians called The L Word. Plus, she reads a letter from a listener who still wonders what all that fuss was about seeing Janet Jackson's breast on national TV. Then, in her mailbag, Susie has some tips for a woman who feels beleaguered by her friend's new love for bondage.

Please note: Susie is away this week conducting interviews in NYC for future episodes of In Bed with Susie Bright. In the meantime, we offer you this program from her archives.
Susie's finally read the book everyone's been talking about, Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex by Judith Levine. Levine argues that sexuality is "a part of life for everybody, starting from the earliest ages." In that vein, Susie offers her six basic tips for helping your children develop positive, sexual images of themselves. Then, in the second part of her interview with...

Please note: Susie is away this week conducting interviews in NYC for future episodes of In Bed with Susie Bright. In the meantime, we offer you this program from her archives.
Scanning the recent sex news, Susie finds "family-friendly" editions of Titanic are hitting the video store shelves. Then, Susie invites one of her favorite sex radicals into the studio this week 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 facinating dicussion, Susie talks with...

Happy Valentine's Day In Bed Listeners! Susie gets rolling with a pre-Janet-Jackson-"wardrobe malfunction" look at the FCC's recent crackdown on obscenity. More to come on this topic in the next few weeks. Then, Susie reads the tingling climax of Dominic Santi's erotic short story, "The Audit" from Best American Erotica 2004. In her mailbag, Susie answers a listener's letter about what it really takes to keep sex hot over the long haul with some personal stories.

Susie's friend has anorexia and she's struggling to stay alive. This reminds Susie that anorexia is more than just depriving yourself of food; it's about focusing all of your energy - sexual and otherwise - on one task: abstaining. Then, Susie's doing her taxes this week and to keep her excited, she's found the perfect revenge-fantasy erotic story, "The Audit" by Dominic Santi, from BAE 2004. In this week's mailbag, Susie offers tips on selling your erotic stories.

As Susie gets ready to for her book tour for Mommy's Little Girl and Best American Erotica 2004, she's soliciting from you, dear listeners, suggestions for people she should interview for In Bed during her trip to NYC. To give some guidance, Susie spills the dirt on what kind of guest makes for a great sex interview. Then, Paypal's new indecency policy has put an end to one of the first Web pioneers - Jennicam, and more

Susie's recent experience as a Macworld Expo booth babe gave her a chance to meet some In Bed listeners. She heard tales of heart disease and distant libidos, seventy-year-olds burning up the sheets, and even bumped into some wayward Baptists. Then, Susie jumps for joy at NY Governor George Pataki's recent pardon of comedian Lenny Bruce and celebrates by reading excerpts of Paul Krassner's interviews with Bruce. In her mailbag, Susie explains Kegel exercises.

After two years of fighting terrorism, the Feds are getting busy busting porn. A federal grand jury recently indicted the adult video company Extreme Associates and its owners for distributing porn via the mail and Internet. Susie says in these days of corporate owned porn, it's worth noting the scope of the bust and what it might mean to the rest of the industry. Then, Susie responds to a Best American Erotica 2003 listener who says the violence in some of the stories turned off his hard-on. Susie teases out the ethical considerations of what turns you on, whether it's in your...

Susie says with Christmas in the air, it's the perfect time to tell her favorite Christmas story, the one about the time she played Santa. Then, with lots of listeners asking questions about polyamory, Susie offers a unique look at the day-to-day conversations she has with her lover in the story, "The Best She Ever Had". In this month's mailbag, Susie helps one listener define fidelity and gets an update from a man who tried polyamory, but couldn't swing it.

To celebrate the last of the lazy, hazy days of summer, Susie wants you to put pen to paper and think about what really turns you on. It's all part of her tips on how to write sexy, fun, dirty, and readable sex scenes. Susie reads "The Final Climax" from her book How to Write a Dirty Story to give you a very specific idea of what works and what doesn't. Then, in her mailbag, Susie helps a listener who thinks men are getting the short end of the vibrator.

Susie is a long time reader of Adult Video News, the insiders' guide to the porn industry. Recently, she was surprised by a cover story about the spread of STDs in the porn industry.. Susie also shares other juicy tidbits from inside porn valley. Then, Susie wants to share some of her erotic dreams with you and hear about what turns you on when the lights are out. Finally, in her mailbag, naughty Christian girls wanted.

Susie's just finished The Big Book of Masturbation by Martha Cornog and she's ready to celebrate self-love! She'll regale you with the best slang terms for jacking or jilling off. She'll list the pros and cons of masturbation. She'll quote Mark Twain! You'll learn more about masturbation than you expect! Then, in her mailbag, Susie gets a letter from a woman who is disappointed her new lover lasts all night.

Susie's has some updates for you this week. First, hold on to your vibrators, Best American Erotica 2003 is coming soon to audible.com. Susie's already figured out a way to autograph your copy! Then, Susie asked and you answered - hear what she's decided about going on The Ricki Lake Show. Susie reads one of her favorite quicky erotic stories called "Five Dimes." And, in her mailbag, a happily married man fears his wife isn't enjoying sex as much after the birth of their children.