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Susie starts off this week's show with a question: can devoted Christians really get down and dirty? It seems that many religious Catholics are into following the word of the Lord - and one of those words is...fisting. Susie finds the website Sex in Christ informative. And it's not just fisting; they teach about oral sex, threesomes, masturbation and bondage. And you thought religious types were square!

The final installment of the New York City interview series with legendary women's masturbation teacher and author Betty Dodson. This 78-year-old is not afraid of telling it like it is and first made headlines back in 1974 with her book Liberating Masturbation. Susie and Betty discuss the G-Spot, intergenerational sex, and what it was like when Betty's mom asked her about her clitoris.

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's guest this week is Ian Kerner, the best selling author of Be Honest - You're Not that Into Him Either and She Comes First. With years of personal and clinical experience between them, Susie and Ian debate the sexual dilemmas facing women and men these days - everything from dating, marriage, porn, and much, much more. Then, Susie and Ian tackle a mailbag question from a woman who says she feels like her sex life is just one big performance.

[Contains explicit content] Susie finds the most epic tweet thread of all time - and recalls her days running around San Francisco (and building a groundbreaking magazine) with strippers and prostitutes.

[Contains explicit content] Susie finds the hidden history of hotel porn. Next, the latest hotbed of STIs is in rural Missouri. Secrecy and shame will come back to bite you every time. And from the mailbag: How not to share your dildo collection, and a hot tip for online sex.

[Contains explicit content] Susie talks with UK novelist and journalist Stephanie Theobald. She's written a book about what she calls the last taboo: masturbation. Theobald has been described as "one of London's most celebrated literary lesbians" and her work has focused on sex, sexual identity, and art.

[Contains explicit content] Susie looks at how bicycles helped usher in a new sexual freedom for women in the 1800s. Next, a record number of Americans aren't having sex. Is the species doomed or are the surveys all smoke and mirrors?

Susie Bright, one of America's best-known sexperts, addresses the sexual politics of the day's news, reviews recent movies and erotic books, answers your sex and relationship questions, and more in this exclusive AudibleOriginal®.

Susie Bright, one of America's best-known sexperts, addresses the sexual politics of the day's news, reviews recent movies and erotic books, answers your sex and relationship questions, and more in this exclusive AudibleOriginal®.

[Contains explicit content] Susie talks to Christopher Zeischegg, aka Danny Wylde. He's a former porn performer and musician, and an extraordinary writer. His book Body to Job, looks at his career from amateur model to finding his feet after porn.

[Contains explicit content] Susie looks at the way that the system of sex offender registries has run amok. Next, Star Trek boldly goes where many, many TV and movie franchises have gone before and includes an openly gay couple. Finally, it's "New on Audible": Saleema Nawaz's Bone and Bread is a heart-breaking look at sisterhood and regret.

[Contains explicit content] Susie looks at what's behind the torture camps for accused "sexual deviants" in Chechnya. Next, what exactly were those guys behind the doomed Frye Festival selling? And finally, it's "New on Audible": Startup: A Novel by Doree Shafrir, takes a look at sexual insanity in the tech world.

On this week's In Bed, Susie talks to writer Charlotte Shane. Her recent article for Fusion, "The Painful Truth About Tight Vaginas", broke down cultural expectations and shed light on the harm done by Kegels.

Those crazy American evangelicals are at it again. Always trying to tell everybody else what to do, they've now decided to save Chinese teenagers from becoming sinners. Yes, it's true, the abstinence program heads to Beijing! Well, Susie has a few words to say about all this. It seems that the Focus on the Family group is behind trying to convert the entire planet to "just say no" to sex before wedlock.

Just how dirty is your local dirty bookstore? Well, if you live in San Diego, Susie says probably not very. Susie recounts her own run-ins with the San Diego vice squad to explain why some cities just can't relax about sex. Then, in Susie's home turf of Santa Cruz, she says it's harder than you'd think to get arrested for running around naked. In an extra long mailbag, Susie sets the record straight for a man whose only fantasy is being man enough for his lady love.

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!

Years ago, when Susie sold vibrators on a regular basis, she swears she had a near-psychic ability to guess what people were seeking but couldn't quite bring themselves to say. But her powers were tested recently when she tried to help a famous movie star buy a vibrator for his girlfriend. Hijinx ensue. And, Susie tells tales of her own sexual awakenings and stories of love, loss and jealousy in her self-described manifesto, Blind Sexual.

Susie's guest this week 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. Susie and Lavada worked together on an erotic collection called Between the Sheets, which is available at audible.com®.

Susie celebrates her daughter's 12th birthday by reminiscing about her birth. Susie talks with Michelle Tea, author of Valencia and the autobiographical The Passionate Mistake and Intricate Corruption of One Girl in America, about gender transitions in these modern times. And, in her mailbag, latex lessons for everyone as Susie answers two different prophylactic questions.