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Even though playing with Barbie is old hat for Susie, in this week's Front Page, she delights a recent ruling making it okay, finally, for Barbie to pose nude. Her Media Whore sites are set on the Consumer Reports for the world of porn: www.janesguide.com. And, in her Try This at Home Mailbag, Susie answers two listener questions.

Susie proclaims Viagra is the best thing to happen to birth control. Then, Susie interviews prostitute Matt Bernstein Sycamore. Matt is also the editor of Tricks and Treats and the upcoming Dangerous Families . Matt talks about what tricks want, how they ask for it, and what you learn about yourself when you're making a living as a "treat." In the mailbag, a woman wonders if a generational difference is the hallmark of incest and a man wonders if his wife is completely losing her sex drive.

Susie's history lesson this week is all about the dildo. The dildo's heyday came in the '80s, when a man from Brooklyn named Gosnell Duncan started making silicon ones. He even named one The Susie! The revolution stuck. Then, Susie reads a story from BAE 2004 called "Old Tengo's Penis" by Geoffrey A. Landis. In her mailbag, Susie offers some make up tips to keep your lipstick on during oral sex.

A few shows back, Susie talked about porn star turned B-actress Traci Lords' new best selling memoir, Underneath it All. Now, Traci's sister has written to say there's another side to this seedy story. Then, what's the difference between an 18 and a 19-year-old stripper? Only Kansas City knows! In her mailbag, Susie gets the bottom of an age-old question - does condom size matter? Don't forget, you can send your sexual ponderings and confidential questions to susie@audible.com.

In this week's Front Page, Susie reviews NYC Mayor Rudy Guiliani's new rules that might close even more sex shops in the Big Apple. In a special Media Whore, Susie interviews her first guest - her dad. An anthropologist and longtime fan of erotica, Bill Bright talks about his early discovery of erotica and shares some Native American erotic stories and songs. In her Try this at Home mailbag, Susie answers a question from a man who wants to be a big baby in the bedroom - diapers and all.

The Bush administration recently sponsored National Protection from Porn Week. Susie says the people who used to need protecting from porn were women. Now the focus is on children and Susie says that logic's just a bit flawed. Then, Susie responds to a recent article by Naomi Wolf called the "Porn Myth" where Wolf says the problem with porn is that it turns men off from the real thing. In her Try This at Home mailbag, Susie's been flooded with great feedback about BAE.

While Susie was enjoying her New York City interviews, the Try This at Home mailbag was filling up. This week, she catches up on your correspondence. Susie answers letters from a man who is worried that his orgasm isn't as strong as it once was and from a woman who finds that her new job is ruining her sex drive. Don't forget, you too can send your confidential questions and feedback about the show to susie@audible.com. (Episode 167)

Susie tackles two biggies in her Try this at Home Mailbag. She offers her list of helpful hints to a woman who would like to know what an orgasm is. Then, she answers a man whose wife says she loves him but is not "in love" with him. In her Front Page, Susie weighs in on the case of an Ohio man busted for writing fictional stories of child abuse in his dairy, and mines her experience of bedding powerful men to ponder what might have driven Chandra Levy to find Rep. Gary Condit attractive.

It's Thanksgiving and Susie wants to thank you for being such a great audience. Susie then talks about the Traditional Values Coalition, a group fighting Federal funding for HIV and AIDS research by circulating the names of prominent health researchers working on sex related research. Then, Susie reads some great responses to two recent topics: Pay Pal's sex doesn't sell policy and religious themes in porn.

In honor of Susie's almost-here-but-not-quite-yet upcoming birthday, this week's Front Page offers a remembrance of birthdays past - her Story of O birthday party, her "Saturn returns" party, the "First Year as a Mom" party, even the "Meet me in New Orleans" party - it's all here! In this week's Media Whore section, Susie discusses Betty Dodson's impressions of Eve Ensler's hit play, The Vagina Monologues - more info about sex for pleasure, and more!

Like most people, Susie gets a lot of e-mail spam promising weight loss, great fortune and outstanding sexual capabilities. In this week's Front Page, Susie reads a recent spam email that takes the cake. Susie herself is the Media Whore this week as she reads to you from her new e-book, How to Read/Write a Dirty Story. And, in her Try this at Home mailbag, Susie answers a question from a young man whose doctor won't take his sexual problems seriously.

In Susie's Front Page, she offers her own hard-won knowledge of finding the erotic and joyful during the holiday season. She peruses the panoply of erotic self-help best selling books (and audiobooks!) and makes her recommendations for what goes into the most helpful types of sex books. Finally, from her Try this at Home mailbag, Susie answers a letter from a "sex-toy slut" who wants the real scoop on fingertip vibrators.

With the start of the New Year, Susie takes a look back at the sex of 2003. The biggest story? The death of porn. Sure, it's still out there - more than ever, in fact - but Susie wants to know where's the love when multinational corporations are jumping on the porn bandwagon left and right? Then, Susie wants you to visit her new "Clits Up!" boutique. And, in her mailbag: the real address of traditional values, (finally) a doctor's good advice, and how can anyone get turned on by sex that's cruel?

Susie's favorite anti-war protest took place recently in Ashland, Oregon, when a group of peace-minded streakers held a "Buns, not Bombs" rally. And, when one small Georgia town decides to display empty picture frames in public places next to the 10 Commandments and the Lord's Prayer, Susie gives her list of things she'd put in those frames. In her Try this at Home Mailbag, Susie hears a tale of two women, thousands of miles apart, who really hate having sex. What's a sexpert to do?

This Front Page looks at the nation's first official whose role is solely to fight pornography - Utah's new porn czar, Paula Houston. In her Media Whore section, Susie leaks the top-secret list of activities you won't see in porn films while President Bush is in office. And, in her Try this at Home mailbag, Susie's got advice on meeting women for a man who finds hairy legs and underarms attractive.

Think Larry Flint sells the most porn in the country? On this week's Front Page Susie Bright says think again - some of the biggest and best-known companies are beaming porn into a hotel room near you. In her What's New in Books and Movies about Sex, Susie critiques porn director Andrew Blake's movies while watching them with the director himself. And, from her Try this at Home mailbag, Susie answers a question from a woman who wonders if her rape fantasies are abnormal.

Since Susie became pregnant with her now 10-year-old daughter, people asked what she would tell the girl about her job. Susie answers that question in this week's Front Page by reading her touching story, "My Mommy's Job." In her Media Whore segment, Susie looks at one of the hottest self-help books around, Laura Doyle's The Surrendered Wife. And, in her Try this at Home mailbag, Susie answers a man who wonders what he has to do to "earn" a kiss on a first date.

In this week's Front Page, Susie navigates the treacherous waters of office romances, offering her advice on what to do and not to do when you've got eyes for the cutie at the water cooler. In her Media Whore scopes, she zeros in on a CD called Gynomite, featuring work from two women talking about sex, Teresa Mendoza's "Amor" and Pam Ward's "Sex Scene." In her Try this at Home Mailbag, Susie hears from a woman about the effects of Prozac on her sex life and emotions in general.

Susie's delighted that California residents can get the "morning-after pill" directly from their pharmacy without a prescription. This week's guest is journalist Jack Boulware, the author of Sex American Style and San Francisco Bizzaro. Susie asks about Jack's recent visit to the world's largest porn collection and they reminisce about playing tennis naked. In the Try this at Home mailbag, Susie answers a woman who loves sex but finds that no amount of desire make her juices flow.

Curious about open relationships? It's Susie's non-monogamy blow out! Susie knows first-hand the ins and outs of maintaining an open relationship. She starts by defining some commonly used relationship terms, including monogamy, cheating, adultery, marriage, and the phrase de jour, polyamory. Then, she answers a letter from a listener who says he might want a divorce unless he can convince his wife an open relationship won't ruin their marriage. Plus, Susie casts her vote for the hottest summer movie.