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Susie spends the entire show speaking with legendary porn star Howie Gordon, aka Richard Pacheco. Over his career, Howie appeared in more then 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.

[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.

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.

From a 2014 show, 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. Chapter headings 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 rating, Jane Fonda’s movie orgasms, Swedish erotica, Russ Meyer’s nudies, and more.

[Contains explicit content] It's the second part of Susie's rare interview with porn star Jamie Gillis from 2007. Jamie talks about how his family supported his work and what porn stars know about getting themselves off that other people don't. Then, from the mailbag, Susie is admonished by a listener whose son has autism and who wonders how she can support her son's sexuality.

Today's show addresses every new parent's concern: Will we ever have sex again? Do you feel like you're in a time warp with your baby or toddler, with no hope of romance returning? Well, worry no more. Susie gives advice to all parents. This is part of an interview Susie had with a super-cool parenting magazine called Haus Frau, edited by Nicole Chaison. The magazine focuses on real family challenges: head lice, traveling with kids, and (in the upcoming issue with Susie) sex.

Susie tackles one of the stranger trends in sex these days: women who say they become virgins - again - before their wedding day. The chaste movement is sweeping the Bible Belt, but is it just elaborate foreplay or a way for grooms who desire pristine Southern Belles to have their cake and eat it too? Susie also welcomes the newest version of the "Morning (Make that 72 Hours) After" pill, aptly named "Plan B." And, in her mailbag, where's an eager student of sex to go to get the formal schooling he desires?

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.

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....

Famous for taking her readers to undiscovered places, Susie Bright has changed the rules for writing about sex. Erotica is no longer under-the-covers reading; it's thrilling literature that showcases the best writing around.

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 breaks from her usual format to tell you about her nearly life-long interest in former porn-star Linda Lovelace. Lovelace was the star of Deep Throat which was released around the time Susie was starting to wonder about sex. Her adolescent fascination evolved as Lovelace later denounced her porn-star days. And, in this show, Susie announces the rules of her new summer contest. Answer her three questions and you might win a FREE subscription to In Bed with Susie Bright!

Susie Bright celebrates the first amendment, lesbianism, single motherhood, and fantasizes an eventful night with Dan Quayle in this uninhibited and quirky collection of essays, articles, and book reviews written over the past few years. Offbeat and sexy, Bright defends Madonna, attacks Dr. Ruth, and is snubbed by Camille Paglia herself in this rather amazing and outspoken collection.

Susie starts the show with a new way of getting your marriage annulled in Italy - just get married in the church where they film porn. Then, Susie really gets going when she reads an excerpt from Mistress Morgana's diary - it's a clever erotic satire and if you listen closely, you may recognize some of her Johns, Orens, Trents and Larrys before Susie does. Then, in her Try This at Home mailbag, Susie gets to the bottom of anal sex among the pros.

The Internet site dailydot featured a recent article with the headline, "Sex-positive female masturbation app rejected from App Store". This caught Susie's attention big-time. While the store offers many other apps that could be considered offensive, Susie wonders what's so bad about this game called Happy PlayTime, in which a cartoon vulva teaches women how to get comfortable with their clitorises. Seems like outright, blatant sexism.

[Contains explicit content] Susie's wants you to enjoy a show from 2004. Her guest is former Penthouse editor Lavada Nahon. Lavada reveals the truth behind some of the magazine's best-known columns, including "Penthouse Letters". She also talks about some of her own sexual and personal awakenings while at Penthouse, including a sex scandal that hit a bit too close to home. Then, from the mailbag, Susie reads some sexy movie reviews.

Susie was recently a guest lecturer in a grad-school classroom where she was asked about the history of the feminist divide on pornography. This brought back old memories, including one in particular about how the famous radical writer Andrea Dworkin disagreed with Susie's view on pornography. Dworkin agreed with those who linked violence against women to porn. And back in the 1970s, she responded to an article Susie wrote about fisting. Dworkin wrote that if women were hurt because they tried Susie's violent idea of sex, then...Susie should be arrested!

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.

Today's show starts off with a serious look at the connection between dominance and pleasure. S&M followers understand and willingly participate in erotic role playing, but what about those military men and women involved in torturing prisoners? Are they sexual sadists too? Susie talks about how the military's torture training changed a friend from peace lover to aggressive dominator. And what does this all say about Abu Ghraib? Next, Susie reviews the reviews: what are the best positions for sex?

[Contains explicit content] Susie looks at ACT UP's plan for eradicating HIV/AIDS. Does the president have what it takes to make good on his promise? Next, contrary to popular stereotypes, there are millennial men who don't like porn. And then it's "New on Audible": Ottessa Oshfegh's My Year of Rest and Relaxation.