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[Contains explicit content] Susie recalls the life and work of one of her biggest intellectual influences - feminist writer, teacher, and activist Ann Snitow - and reads an excerpt from her paper, "Mass Market Romance: Pornography Is Different for Women". And then, "New on Audible": Margaret Atwood's Life Before Man, a sophisticated meditation on non-monogamy and marriage.

Herotica 3 is the third in the ground-breaking series of sensual stories written by, for, and about women. By helping women to "claim the erotic frontier," Susie Bright explores a territory where sexuality is limited only by the imagination. In Michelle Handelman's "Blood Past," things heat up when an American tourist in Spain has a surprising encounter with a male glass eater and a female sword swallower. In Carol Queen's "Sweating Profusely in Mérida," a woman fulfills a longtime fantasy of exploring the men's baths with her bisexual boyfriend. In "Something Special," by Aurora Light, one woman seduces her twin's lover, who has no clue that the woman he's sharing pleasure with is not his usual partner! Other stories include: "My Date with Marcie," "Erotoplasmic Orgasmic," "Sileni," "Hope," and "Look What the Cat Dragged In." Adult listening. For Adults Only: Explicit language. Must be 18 years of age to purchase.

Thanksgiving is a time for reflecting on our blessings, and Susie shares some of the many letters from In Bed listeners she's received listing what they were thankful for in their sex lives this past year. The responses are fun and range from a new mattress that offers many exciting adventures to being grateful for living in New Zealand, because it is such a sensible and open-minded society.

Impressionist art from one of the masters of all time has a really intriguing back story. Susie looks at the life of Edgar Degas and how his sexuality informed his famous ballet dancer paintings. Degas captures their grace and discipline, but a new book reveals the dancers real lives and how Degas captured their beauty and hid their pain. Ballerina: Sex, Scandal and Suffering Behind the Symbol of Perfection by Deirdre Kelly inspired Susie to think about Degas' own erotic identity. He was a masochist, femme and repressed....

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.

Happy Halloween, and as a ghoulish treat, Susie reads a story that is so scary, sexy, and suspenseful you may want to keep the lights on and be sure to lock the doors. The story is from Susie's newest book, X, The Erotic Treasury, and this dark, taboo piece is written by Vicki Hendricks.

In our ongoing "Tell Me Your Sex Story" segment, we meet a listener who became famous when she went head-to-head against a cantankerous Tea Party Republican. It was Melissa, a Post Office employee who kept her cool as Congressman Joe Walsh went berserk at a local "meet and greet". (Check it out on YouTube.) Susie and Melissa talk about sexual politics, government corruption, and just what happens to mail carriers when the homeowner wants more than just letters delivered.

What do naked toddlers, TV's reality show The Bachelorette and premature ejaculations all have in common? They are topics up for discussion on today's show. And in our featured story, Susie looks at an article by fellow sexpert Cory Silverberg called "Why I Love Premature Ejaculation". What?

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 week we present the birth of a blue-movie critic. It's a look into how Susie went from being what Roger Ebert called an "innocent lesbian virgin" to the Pauline Kael of porn. She tells us about being hired by Penthouse Forum to write a pocket-sized journal focusing on sexy words rather than sexy pictures as she reviewed X-rated films. Our young Susie got a first-hand look into the world of porn movies, and oh what stories she has to tell!

[Contains explicit content] Susie offers another listen to an interview from 2015 with author Shulem Deen. In All Who Do Not Return, he describes abandoning an Hasidic cult where, on his wedding night, he knew how to broker a real-estate deal in ancient Babylon - but didn’t know the fundamental basics of how babies get made. 

Susie has a beef with a story that claims that Iceland is the world's most feminist country. Why? Because they say they banning strip clubs is pro-feminist. And Susie says wait a minute!

On this week's In Bed, Susie looks at sex in space. Sorry Barbarella, it ain't that easy! Next, biologists have finally come up with a plausible theory for the evolution of female orgasm. And finally, it's "New on Audible". Chaos Monkeys both skewers Silicon Valley's work culture and gives a balanced assessment of how things work there.

Susie Bright digs into the meaning that's underneath people's actions, beliefs, and philosophies when it comes to sex. These interviews take a look at linguistics, "Penthouse Letters", gay pulp fiction and Victorian-Age erotica - to uncover the history of sexual evolution.

In this collection, Broadway superstar Alan Cumming tells of the deep knowing offered by one stranger to another after casual sex; in science-fiction hotshot Geoffrey Landis' bawdy fairy tale, we learn about the very first penis; 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.

A long-standing tradition in China of hiring strippers to perform at funerals is now illegal, but the shows continue to take place. Authorities want it to stop, but in mostly rural areas, it's still common to have scantily clad girls singing and dancing for the mourners. Susie reads from an interview with documentarian Marc Moskowitz, who has written about these funerals, as well as producing a film called Dancing for the Dead.

Susie is outraged about the Steubenville, Ohio, rape case - two boys raped a drunk and unconscious 16-year-old girl at a party while other partygoers tweeted and Instagrammed photos of the attack. Susie reached out to Traci Lords - the actress and musician who gained notoriety as a teenage porn star - to get the Stubenville natives' reaction to the rape. And her thoughts about it are chilling.

Foreign languages and words can sound so exotic. Do you know what yuanfen or forelskt mean? Hint: they both refer to different aspects of love and are untranslatable. But Susie's friend, linguist Geoffrey Pullum, finds ways to show the exquisite meaning from 10 international sex and love words. Susie reads his story, and it is touching.

Today, Susie takes a look at a recent study about monogamy and young heterosexual couples. Seems that 40% of the pairs had a problem with straight talk on exclusivity. While one partner said he or she hadn't agreed to be sexually exclusive, the other partner thought they had. Wow! That's a lot of miscommunication and misunderstanding in some intimate relationships. Susie wonders if taking a different approach to talking about commitment, love, and trust may help these couples find agreement.

Susie speaks with author Jen Sincero about her new book You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life. It's about how to stop wallowing in your own self-pity, take action, and lose the excuses. As a life coach, Jen has had a long history of dealing with kooky and great experiences, a history that enables her to make your life work for you. Susie also loves another of Jen's books: The Straight Girl's Guide to Sleeping with Chicks. This is a fun conversation filled with lots of tidbits that will help you to get going.