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[Contains explicit content] Susie talks to Hallie Lieberman about her fun, surprising, and long history of sex toys "buzz".

[Contains explicit content] Susie asks why Amazon is stashing its sexy books under the mattress.

[Contains explicit content] An In Bed listener sends in her gun history, and Susie demands a major motion picture. Next, Susie shares a letter from a man in prison who found her through the Best American Erotica series. He expresses the needs of humanity behind bars and the gleam of hope and light shone by literature.

[Contains explicit content] Susie talks to journalist Liza Featherstone, author of Divining Desire: Focus Groups and the Culture of Consultation.

[Contains explicit content] Susie interviews one of today's most popular porn stars, Asa Akira. Asa has been working in the adult entertainment business and has accrued many awards for her film work. She's won for best anal scene, best double penetration scene, and best all-girl three-way sex scene, at the AVN award show. She's also been named best porn star of the year and has appeared in over 400 adult films.

[Contains explicit content] Susie looks at the ways the US Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) is using irrefutably legal sex behavior to facilitate linked deportations. Next, the return of the DIY abortion. Even in liberal California, economic and social divisions can make a home abortion look like the best option.

[Contains explicit content] Susie remembers David Hurles. The filmmaker and photographer behind Old Reliable was one of the great auteurs, ready to die for his art.

[Contains explicit content] Susie interviews the brilliant anthropologist author who cracked kink - Katharine Gates - on deviant desires, technology, and dead baby bunnies. Don't get her started! Ooops, too late.... Her seminal work on kink communities, Deviant Desires, has been released in a whole new edition that never fails to surprise.

[Contains explicit content] Susie talks guns, revolution, and sex. When Trump supporters start bandying about conspiracy theories that Parkland students are paid actors, Susie recalls being a teenage organizer sleeping with shotgun protection. Next, how can Florida declare porn a public health risk, while the state's gunned-down children are being buried?

[Contains explicit content] Susie asks, has sex for American women gotten so bad that orgasm isn’t even the issue anymore - that now it’s all about the pain threshold? Next, a woman in the Deep South knew who to call when her son came out to her - do you?

[Contains explicit content] Susie talks about the self worth and guts it takes to hire a prostitute when one is disabled. Next, have you ever heard of a mixed orientation marriage? And finally, it's "New on Audible": Jessica Graham's Good Sex: Getting Off Without Checking Out.

[Contains explicit content] Susie digs in to some of the issues needing to be addressed in the sex-work industry: health, labor, respect. First, the physical endurances of working in porn rival the NFL - only without the pension. Next, how a little something called "plaçage" informs the most fraught of interracial escort relationships.

[Contains explicit content] Susie talks with writer, editor, and professional pothead David Bienenstock about getting the most out of your legal weed in the bedroom.

[Contains explicit content] Susie hands out the Golden Duke awards for the most infamous news stories of 2017 - and in a year awash with scandal and scurrilous politicians, it was tough.

[Contains explicit content] Susie looks at the change in attitude law enforcement in Fresno is taking toward teenaged sex workers. Next, when your job is sex, is enthusiastic consent too much to ask?

[Contains explicit content] Susie takes you in the way-back machine to 1992. Sandra Bernhard was coming to national attention, based on a cheeky late night appearance with Madonna. She was starting to resent the focus on her sexuality, and who should the British Film Institute engage to publicly interview her? America's lesbian sex expert and pornographer Susie Bright. Tea was spilled, but no blood.

[Contains explicit content] Susie reviews this year's American Humanist Association conference in Charleston, South Carolina, and her award for Feminist Humanist of the Year. Next, a straight man who hates going down on women has his day in Social Media Court.

Contains explicit content] Susie introduces four new editions of Charles Bukowski's short fiction and memoirs to Audible. The patron saint of barflies and brawlers with tender souls wrote prolifically; each sentence a gem.

[Contains explicit content] Today's show features a lot about anal sex. Susie starts out looking at an erotic classic: The Marketplace by Laura Antoniou. Then, it's another edition of "Tell Me Your Sex Story". And finally, from our "Try This at Home" mailbag: "He wants to have anal sex, but only as the top."

[Contains explicit content] Susie talks about why consent is irrelevant if no one is allowed to say yes. The backlash to #metoo is here in reaction to outsized punishments for sexual transgressions and the infantilization of women.