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Dildo alert! Are you at risk because of the materials used to make dildos? Susie reads from an article by Cory Silverberg who thinks this warning about the chemical phthalates used in dildos is overblown.

[Contains explicit content] Susie has a show from 2008 for you to enjoy. The show starts with a shocking idea: a married couple decides to have sex every night for a year! Susie reveals the details behind a very special birthday gift. Next, Susie delves into the world of chemical engineering to find out what makes Hell tick. That's right, as all of us heathens want to know, what exactly is Hell made of - and what are we in for? Finally, from the mailbag, Susie responds to a letter from a lesbian fisting devotee who gets reduced to tears by a demon cup.

On this week's In Bed, Susie pulls on her thigh-high boots to wade into the cesspool at the bottom of the Oakland Police Department. The scandal includes cops pimping teenage hookers and a murder-suicide that spilled all the beans. One prostitute is not holding back. What does her story tell us? Then, a married math professor has fathered 22 children through unofficial sperm donations, sometimes delivered in a Target men's room.

In 1976, a porn film called Snuff hit the theaters. It was rumored that a woman was killed in the movie and anti-porn feminists roared. This week, Susie is in the studio with porn and exploitation film scholars Eithne Johnson and Eric Schaeffer. Eithne and Eric talk about the history of the snuff film, the role of red-light districts, specifically Boston's "Combat Zone," and Eithne maps out the female porn equivalent to the money shot. In the mailbag, a listener searches for cocoa buttery goodness.

Susie begins today's show with a tribute to the late author and journalist Christopher Hitchens. Over a long career he was a regular columnist for Vanity Fair, The Atlantic, and Slate. Susie found his writing and views on bisexuality to be unparalleled.

Susie Bright, one of America's best-known sexperts, addresses the sexual politics of the day's news, reviews recent movies and erotic books, answers your sex and relationship questions, and more in this exclusive AudibleOriginal®.

Susie looks into to a story from The New York Times about friends who become lovers. Can friends go from being buddies to lovers without stress? Research says this phenomenon is called "friends with benefits", and it has many risks.

[Contains explicit content] Susie takes a look at what it's really like to be bisexual and notes that bisexuality isn't all it's cracked up to be. Imagine being shunned by both straights and gays because you just don't fit in. Susie reads from her story "Blind Sexual", which is not a happy story, but it does have some sexy twists and turns. And surprisingly, you'll hear from Roland Barthes, the French grand master of theoretical criticism, as Susie quotes from his classic book A Lover's Discourse to make sense of her suffering through rejection from both sexes.

Susie Bright is a sexual liberationist of the highest order. The Sexual State of the Union includes essays about dirty pictures and porn, lesbian marriage and lesbian murder, lesbian men and switching genders, vibrators, and the longevity of feminism. The writing is crisp, intelligent, and provocative; there is sure to be something that will make you cheer as well as something that will deeply offend you.

Pull down the shades and settle in for pleasure with this trio of erotic novellas - handpicked by Susie Bright - showcasing stories that are hot and masterful. Susie Bright, hailed by The New York Times as "the avatar of American erotica", is the undisputed grandmaster of the genre. Now she has handpicked three rising stars - new masters - whose stories will delight, arouse, and captivate you. Connected by a central theme - the idea that one sexual moment can change a person forever - each story is wildly different from anything you have read or heard before.

Hailed by Utne Reader as ""a visionary"" and the San Francisco Chronicle as ""the X-rated intellectual,"" Susie Bright is indisputably the sexpert of our times. Now, in a frank and intimate look at our own erotic experience, she delves into the most personal aspects of sex and shows us how our...

Susie Bright interviews Jillian Lauren, author of Some Girls: My Life in a Harem. Lauren talks about her incredible real-life experience “auditioning” for the harem of Prince Jefri of Brunei.

Susie's in the studio this week with one of her oldest friends and feminist mentors, Barbara Winslow. Barbara is the head of the women's studies department at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. She is also the author of Sylvia Pankhurst: Sexual Politics and Political Activism. In a fun romp through more than a century of feminist thought, Susie and Barbara discuss history of free love, focusing on religious communitarians during the Reform period.

Campus rape prevention and prosecution are in the news again, and some say it's a crisis. Others say it's a panic. Susie sees a chasm between ideal behavior and an informed understanding of human sexuality. She reads from an article by Sara Lipka in The Chronicle of Higher Education that lays out the real dilemma here: Many college students lack education about sexuality and are unprepared and insecure about sex.

Today, Susie has an interview with Eric Schaefer, author of Sex Scene: Media and the Sexual Revolution. Professor Schaefer teaches at Emerson College in the Visual and Media Arts Department. His new book looks at exploitation and sexploitation within films, tabloids, novels, and audio recordings. Chapters include "Wet Dreams", "Porn Goes to College", "Beefcake to Hardcore", and "33 1/3 Sexual Revolutions Per Minute", to name a few. Susie and Eric discuss the origins of X ratings, Jane Fonda's movie orgasms, Swedish erotica, Russ Myer's nudies, and more.

Why is a new AIDS preventative pill under attack? Truvada has been dubbed a party drug by conservatives, who see it as an aid to continuing risky sex, rather than something to help people with HIV. Susie reads from Out magazine's article "Why I Am a Truvada Whore". This tongue-in-cheek story shows how mixed up the debate is and likens the fear of HIV protection to the 1960s-era fear of giving birth-control pills to unmarried couples.

Susie starts off today's show with a sexy topic: European accounting! Okay, if that doesn't turn you on, you're not alone - but Bloombergview.com reports that the European Union wants to cash in on prostitution, drugs, and other illicit businesses to help boost GDP. These "shadow economies" are being scrutinized and may be forced to join national statistical accounting systems. Susie looks at how the underground world, although illegal, may help these countries' overall numbers to look good on the books.

Susie asked listeners to send in ideas for topics she should cover as she writes a story about sex for AARP. What is important to talk about regarding sex for the over-50 crowd? The response was overwhelming; you all had much to say, and Susie highlights one listener's letter.

There's a Republican state legislator from South Dakota who wants to warn everyone about the dangers of anal sex. "Gay sex is not good for the mind or the body," he says. And he's looking for doctors to back him up. Ha! says Susie. Our lawmaker goes on to say that doctors are discouraged and intimated when it comes to telling the truth about anal sex. This makes Susie wonder if everyone has been intimated into silence when it comes to this issue.

Today, Susie spends the entire show speaking with legendary porn star Howie Gordon, aka Richard Pacheco. Over his career, Howie appeared in more than 100 X-rated films and videos. Susie and Howie talk about the business of making sex movies. How is your acting affected when getting an erection becomes difficult? They talk about open marriages, first loves, and the sexual liberation of the sixties.