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In this show from 2012, Susie speaks with comedian and author Lizz Winstead, co-creator of The Daily Show and radio's Air America. Lizz and Susie talk about what it was like growing up in a strict Catholic household. What happens to a wisecracking girl who knows that both having sex and using birth control are sins? She decides that if she doesn't use protection, she's only committing one sin instead of two! Lizz describes strange encounters with religious Right to Lifers, her mother, and Planned Parenthood.

In a show from 2012, Susie looks at a common first-timers fear: What do virgins need to know about how sex "feels"? Susie has some online advice from her friend and sex expert Cory Silverberg. Next, in "Tell Me Your Sex Story", Susie talks with another willing listener who steps into her sexual confession booth. Meet "Louise", a 25-year-old sex industry worker. Louise has sex on camera at Kink.com and dances at The Lusty Lady. Susie and Louise talk about the best sex toys when performing, what it's like to have sex all day long, and what happens when your co-sex-worker falls for you. 

[Contains explicit content] Susie talks to an In Bed listener about what it's like being a first-year medical student – with a focus on what he's learning about doctoring and helping patients with sexual issues. "Gideon" and Susie delve into such topics as "How is it dissecting a penis?" "How do you tell the difference between S&M and abuse?" And "Are new med students sensitive to LGBT issues?" 

[Contains explicit content] In this show from 2012, Susie speaks with Dr. Harriet Lerner about her book Marriage Rules, which tackles the sexual hot spots in long-term relationships. Harriet has a commonsense approach to age-old problems between partners, from "He won't talk" to "She doesn't want to have sex". It's all covered with handy rules to make life together work in the bedroom. 

[Contains explicit content] From 2005: Susie says there are many sexy things you can do in your car. For example, the California State Assembly upheld the right to play porn on an in-car DVD system, Next, after years of opening sexually explicit mail in her local post office, Susie received a book that gave even her pause. The topic? Enemas. And finally, from the mailbag, Susie offers advice to a man who says he loves living with his girlfriend - but needs time for his "solo sex life" too. 

From 2006: Susie said the Jack Abramoff scandal had sexual repercussions beyond the political. With so many conservatives saying they're against "amoral" activities, while secretly engaging in and making so much money off those same activities, Susie says it's time to start telling the truth. Then, Susie reviews two new products that couldn't be more different: the Rapex condom and the Chocolate Clone-a-Willy. And finally, from the mailbag, a divorced dad is having trouble keeping his sex life and his pre-teen daughter under the same roof. 

[Contains explicit content] Susie has an interview from 2008 with Elizabeth Pisani, author of The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels and the Business of AIDS. Susie and Pisani discuss government bamboozling of the public about the disease. They also consider if the number of sexual partners one has makes contracting AIDS inevitable. And what about condoms? Are sexual workers in countries that require condoms changing attitudes, because using them decreases the disease? 

[Contains explicit content] Susie has a show from 2006 for you to enjoy. She was enraged by South Dakota Governor Mike Rounds decision to sign legislation virtually outlawing abortion in his state. Susie offers some practical and some radical tips you can use to speak out against this level of misogyny. Then, for something a bit more sexy, Susie has recommendations for the best lube. And finally, from the mailbag, Susie has a follow-up response from an uncircumcised listener who loves his Prince Albert piercing.

[Contains explicit content] Susie has a show from 2006 for you to enjoy. Her special guest that week was Gina Trapani, editor of one of Susie's favorite blogs for simultaneously wasting and saving time: Lifehacker.com. Susie and Gina explore the reasons why people aren't looking for more timesaving and geeky ways to improve their sex lives and much more.  

Contains explicit content] Susie invites you to enjoy an interview from 2012 with one of her favorite authors. In Hanne Blank's Straight: The Surprisingly Short History of Heterosexuality she delves into the history of how hetero was created and marketed around the time of World War II. Susie and Hanne talk about heterosexuality as a middle-class notion, medical science, and understandings about sexuality. Is there really a gay brain versus a straight brain?

[Contains explicit content] Here at In Bed if someone describes you as having "a dirty mind", we call that a compliment. Susie's guest today, author Nicholson Baker, has been defined that way and in many more. The New York Times called him the "mad scientist of smut". Susie and Nicholson discuss his steamy book House of Holes - a book of raunch, filled with fantasy and wild pleasures. Among the outrageous scenes: what happens when want to exchange your right arm for a gigantic penis.  

[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.  

[Contains explicit content] Please enjoy another show from 2007! Susie weighs in on the Georgia case of Genarlow Wilson who, at 17, was sentenced to 10 years for getting a blow job from a 15-year-old girl. Susie says it's just another example of how out of touch and hypocritical Georgia lawmakers are. Then, its Part 1 of a rare two-part interview with one of the most important figures in porn history, Jamie Gillis. Jamie's career began in the '70s as a starring stud, and by the '80s he was directing.  

[Contains explicit content] Please enjoy this show from 2007! Susie is in the studio with Erica Jong, author of eight novels, but best known for her 1973 work, Fear of Flying. Susie asks Erica about how her sex life has changed as she's gotten older. Erica says she's gone from the "nurse or purse" scenario with older or much younger lovers, to seeing sex as a whole-body experience. Next, they talk about raising sexually strong girls and why Jane Austen would be chick-lit today.

[Contains explicit content] Susie reads one of her favorite stories from Best American Erotica 1999: "Three Obscene Phone Calls" by Marian Phillips. In each of the three calls, the callee relishes turning the tables on the caller. Then, Susie discusses a British documentary about jacking off elephants. And from the mailbag, Susie hears from a man who's starting to become sexually active and who's scared of what he desires. 

[Contains explicit content] Susie would like you to enjoy a show from 2002. Susie finds "family friendly" editions of Titanic hitting the video store shelves. Next, Susie invites one of her favorite sex radicals into the studio for the first of a two-part interview. Staci Haines is the author of A Survivor's Guide to Sex: How to Have a Great Sex Life After Sexual Abuse. In a warm and fascinating discussion, Susie talks with Staci about the process of sexual healing for incest survivors.  

[Contains explicit content] Susie would like you to enjoy a show from 2004. She hears a juicy sex dispatch from a listener in North Dakota regarding a sex columnist fired from the local student paper. Then, after years of debunking tantric sex, Susie's finally found a book that makes the practice seem down-right interesting, at least historically. It's called Tantra: Sex, Secrecy, Politics and Power in the Study of Religion by Hugh B. Urban. Finally, from the mailbag, Susie answers a personal question about juggling her open relationship and her family. 

This week's show kicks off Susie's San Francisco interview series. First up is Veronica Monet, a prostitute who is also an avowed feminist, a loving wife, and a professional speaker. Veronica talks with Susie about how she got into hooking, why she stays in it, and what she's learned. She also shares her list of etiquette tips when calling an escort service. And, in this week's Try This at Home mailbag, Susie answers a man who wants to hang out in the nude (with others) before he dies.

Susie heralds a recent court decision allowing porn filmmaker Adam Glasser, a.k.a Seymore Butts, to sell his Tampa Tushy Fest after censors nearly banned it from video store shelves. Then, Susie interviews Greta Christina an old friend who is the video buyer at Blowfish.com, Susie's favorite adult website. Greta talks about her current porn obsessions and how she decides which adult films meet the Blowfish criteria. In her mailbag, advice for a man whose wife is getting too close to an old flame.

[Contains explicit content] Susie catches up with Tristan Taormino. They explore extreme tickling, how to fix a leather contest, and "WTF happened to the porn business?"