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Susie Bright, founder of Best American Erotica, presents a classic, taboo-breaking collection of men’s erotic fiction - featuring the most unrepentant gay literary heroes of our generation. Legendary writers like John Preston, Samuel Delany, Steven Saylor/Aaron Travis, Lars Eighner, Dennis Cooper - who can imagine men’s intimate and transgressive lives without them?

After Andrea Dworkin, the famous feminist philosopher and activist, passed away, her chief critic, Susie Bright, who many perceived as Dworkin's opposite, published a stirring obituary and series of essays in which she described the ways that Dworkin was a catalyst for the sex-positive movement in contemporary feminism.

Susie Bright is the first and reigning queen of contemporary erotica. In How to Write a Dirty Story she reveals her tricks of the trade and shows you how to heat up sex scenes in everything from traditional novels and romances to science fiction and humor. Easing the aspiring writer into the creative process, she tells you how to write the steamy plots and sensual characters that publishers and readers (and listeners) are looking for.

Susie is off this week, but wants you to enjoy an episode from 2007. In this show Susie was reading a midwife's blog (observantmidwife.blogspot.com), and she came across a topic you don't hear much about: How being obese changes a woman's vagina and sexual response. The post generated lots of comments, ranging from obese women who say their partners love their soft feel to others who offer practical tips for common obstacles.

On today's show, Susie interviews one of today's most popular porn stars: Asa Akira. Asa has been working in the adult-entertainment business for six years and has garnered many awards for her work in over 400 adult films. At the AVN awards show, sponsored by Adult Video News, she's won for best anal scene, best double-penetration scene, and best all-girl three-way sex scene. She's also been named best porn star of the year. Susie and Asa talk about how to stay healthy in the business, why being dominated can be so hot, and how to write smutty haikus.

Susie's guest is Veronica Vera, founder and dean of "Miss Vera's Finishing School for Boys Who Want to be Girls" and the author of Miss Vera's Cross-Dress for Success. Susie met Miss Vera years ago and Susie's first glimpse into Miss Vera's copious collection of lacy underthings was a true introduction to Miss V's dedication to all things womanly. At her cross-dressing academy, men (and some women) sign up for classes to learn the fine arts of being a woman.

A new, sexy e-book entitled Shades of Grey has taken over the publishing world. This has Susie thinking, "What are some of the other erotic romance books that paved the way for Shades that we all need to read or read again?" Susie has a list, including: Carrie's Story, Story of O, and Nine and a Half Weeks, to name a few. She's also working hard to get these important titles into audiobook form. Stay tuned!

Pulitzer Prize-winner Jane Smiley details a beautiful erotic interlude in an otherwise sordid real estate deal; Mary Gaitskill celebrates the unexpected ardor of one middle-aged couple; Steve Almond reminisces about the best one-man/three-girl Ecstasy party ever; Nelson George recounts the erotic escapades that befall a young man who accompanies a celebrity athlete when he picks up a gaggle of girls; and Carol Queen explores the joys of making love with summer fruit.

Susie starts us off with a look at electoral politics at a strip club in Florida. That's right - people in the sex industry are talking about which presidential candidate they might vote for next month. A recent article in The Huffington Post stated that both political parties have a lot to prove to workers at this bar, as well as its patrons. Seems like both Romney and Obama have a long way to go to please some working-class people and earn their votes.

Susie Bright, “The Pauline Kael of Porn” (SF Chronicle), rips open the history of erotic cinema before the internet— from the Golden Age of lavish 35mm hardcore, to the video-inspired “Porno Spring”, initiated by none other than punk, feminist, and lesbian video-makers.

This beautifully produced book contains the landmark work of the most influential lesbian photographers in the world, including Morgan Gwenwald, Della Grace, Diana Blok, Tee Corrine, Jill Posener, and Honey Lee Cottrell. Beyond the impact of the individual photographers, Bright writes about the themes that have fueled lesbian photography, including the feminist approach to the body and the lesbian relationship to popular culture.

Susie Bright brings together love's darkest arrows in this shiver-inducing collection of 15 gothic erotic short stories, with original stories from legends such as author Francesca Lia Block and Supernatural screenwriter Sera Gamble. Listen alone or share with a lover and devour the mystical characters, forbidden sexual relationships, and private pleasures.

Susie is outraged to hear that a middle school in Illinois has banned hugging, and she reviews a new book, 101 Nights of Grrreat Sex. She tried some of the secret seductions offered to perk up your sex life, and after the first game, her partner gave this book a big thumbs up.

Susie Bright's groundbreaking anthology of women's erotic fiction "reflects up our skirts (and jeans) like a patent leather shoe." Witty, thoughtful, and incisive, the ten stories in this multi-voice recording offer a banquet of non-stop sexual delight.

Susie Bright uncovers the intimate side to pornography, in these candid talks with famous stars, producers, directors, and retailers. Susie's interviews get to the heart of what it's like to have sex in front of the camera, the surprising details of how porn movies are made and marketed, and what Hollywood learned from "Deep Throat."

[Contains explicit content] From 2009: Susie is ready to scream. A recent study once again showed that women are not reaching orgasm nearly as often as men. It's not fair! Susie looks at the role oral sex has with this unfortunate gap between men's and women's pleasure. Seems like there's a lot more giving head and less eating pussy happening these days. An article by Hannah Seligson in the The Daily Beast says orgasm inequity is as serious as the pay gap. Next, Susie reveals a secret passion of hers. She's into fast, sporty and muscular…cars! 

Susie is all about the porn women enjoy this week. First, a recent article in The New York Times explained what types of porn movies are getting rave reviews on the new Playgirl channel. Then, Susie offers up her list of favorite porn movies, from the very pretty to the Victorian to the very raunchy Then, in the mailbag, Susie offers advice to a man who suspects his wife has been cheating on him for years.

Ever wondered why theres no female voice as bold, erotic, unflinching, and revealing as Norman Mailer, Henry Miller, or Philip Roth? There is. It belongs to Susie Bright. Big Sex Little Death is an explosive yet intimate memoir that's pure Susie: bold, free-spirited, unpredictable, larger than life, yet utterly true to life.

In The Best American Erotica 2002, Maggie Estep relates the surprising sexual happenings in a detox clinic, Francesca Lia Block explores the aquatic fantasies haunting a surfer, and Ernie Conrick introduces a tennis star and sex symbol who surrenders to an unusual coach. In these 23 stories you will also find cutting-edge work from other luminaries and from the Internet, where the next wave of erotica has matured into some of the most enticing writing around.

In The Best American Erotica, Volume 11, we learn about the very first penis in science-fiction hotshot Geoffrey Landis's bawdy fairy tale; Touré's breathless prose poem sets us up with an evening's worth of erotic visitors; and in Jerry Stahl's story, a man recalls his boyhood fascination with his mother's friends and their elaborate undergarments.