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Susie Bright, founder of Best American Erotica, presents a classic, taboo-breaking collection of men’s erotic fiction - featuring the most unrepentant gay literary heroes of our generation. Legendary writers like John Preston, Samuel Delany, Steven Saylor/Aaron Travis, Lars Eighner, Dennis Cooper - who can imagine men’s intimate and transgressive lives without them?

In The Best American Erotica 2002, Maggie Estep relates the surprising sexual happenings in a detox clinic, Francesca Lia Block explores the aquatic fantasies haunting a surfer, and Ernie Conrick introduces a tennis star and sex symbol who surrenders to an unusual coach. In these 23 stories you will also find cutting-edge work from other luminaries and from the Internet, where the next wave of erotica has matured into some of the most enticing writing around.

Included in this collection: "Rubenesque" by Magenta Michaels; "Brian's Bedroom" by Leigh Rutledge; "Serenade for Female with Fantasies" by Anne Marie Mardith; "Why" by Bob Flanagan; "Milk" by Michael Dorsey; and more.

Eine Zusammenstellung der besten (aktualisierten) Texte aus "Susie Sexperts Sexwelt für Lesben" und "Susie Sexperts liederliche Lesbenwelten"...

In 1976, a porn film called Snuff hit the theaters. It was rumored that a woman was killed in the movie and anti-porn feminists roared. This week, Susie is in the studio with porn and exploitation film scholars Eithne Johnson and Eric Schaeffer. Eithne and Eric talk about the history of the snuff film, the role of red-light districts, specifically Boston's "Combat Zone," and Eithne maps out the female porn equivalent to the money shot. In the mailbag, a listener searches for cocoa buttery goodness.

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.

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 Bright is the first and reigning queen of contemporary erotica. In How to Write a Dirty Story she reveals her tricks of the trade and shows you how to heat up sex scenes in everything from traditional novels and romances to science fiction and humor. Easing the aspiring writer into the creative process, she tells you how to write the steamy plots and sensual characters that publishers and readers (and listeners) are looking for.

In the 14th edition of this seductive series, erotica's veterans and up-and-coming new writers join forces to explore how tantalizing crossing the so-called Lolita gap between youth and middle age can be.

Susie praises a group of teenage boys who recently shelled out good money for strippers who kept their clothes on in Nicollet, Minnesota. Then, Susie ponders the less-than-usual situation of older women with younger men after seeing two recent movies, Tadpole and Lovely and Amazing. Susie's all for older women looking sexy with younger men but says the age difference can show up in other ways. In her mailbag, Susie answers a letter from a man who wonders what it takes to be a sex worker.

Today's show features a look at how erotic writers write. Susie shares her interview with Molly Weatherfield, author of the classic S&M novel Carrie's Story. First published in 1995 and regarded as one of the finest erotic novels ever written, it's smart, devastatingly sexy, and at times, shocking. It's now available as an audiobook, and Susie wanted to find out all the details that went into making this explicit, steamy story. She asks Molly about what other porn writers she enjoys reading and how the inspiration for Carrie's Story came. They also discuss fetish sex, fantasy, Regency romance, and BDSM.

For this special edition, Susie Bright has gathered human sexuality in all its diversity: pleasure and desire in all its forms. Featuring erotic stories by: Bret Easton Ellis, Poppy Z. Brite, William Harrison, Michelle Tea, Aimee Bender, and Molly Weatherfield.

Susie's NYC interviews are here! First up: sexual pioneer Betty Dodson, the author of the seminal Sex for One and her latest, Orgasms for Two. Now 73, Betty has been teaching women how to masturbate for decades. These days, she's hooked up with a man nearly 50 years her junior and she says the sex has never been better. In her mailbag, Susie tells what it's really like to watch porn for a living.

Susie's happy Brits can finally see what's behind the green door. The British Board of Film Classification is allowing explicit pornography into the country for the first time. Then, Susie talks with writer Jane DeLynn, the author of one of Susie's earliest erotic favorites, Some Do, as well as Don Juan in the Village, and most recently, Leash. Susie and Jane debate the existence of "lesbian bed death" and whether you can will yourself to like being a bottom. Then, should jocks shave?

In scanning the recent sex news, Susie finds "family-friendly" editions of Titanic are hitting the video store shelves. Then, Susie invites one of her favorite sex radicals into the studio. 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 facinating dicussion, Susie talks with Staci about the process of sexual healing for incest survivors. In her mailbag, an intro to sex toys for men.

Susie says with Christmas in the air, it's the perfect time to tell her favorite Christmas story, the one about the time she played Santa. Then, with lots of listeners asking questions about polyamory, Susie offers a unique look at the day-to-day conversations she has with her lover in the story, "The Best She Ever Had". In this month's mailbag, Susie helps one listener define fidelity and gets an update from a man who tried polyamory, but couldn't swing it.

Susie's in the studio this week with lesbian scholar and activist Karla Jay, Ph.D. Karla is the author of 10 books, the most recent of which is Tales of the Lavender Menace: A Memoir of Liberation Dyke Life. In this fascinating conversation, Karla and Susie compare notes on their early radicalism, both inside and out of the lesbian community. Then, in the mailbag, Susie helps answer the question, "Is there a correct way to have sex when you're married?"

This week, Susie's talks with erotica writer Tsaurah Litzky. In Susie's Best American Erotica series, Tsaurah is one of the most prolific and popular authors. Tsaurah tells Susie how a nice Jewish girl from Canarsie discovered her sexual appetite and about how she gets her writing students to loosen up and write about s-e-x. In the mailbag, Susie offers a listener specific tips for successful online dating.

Susie talks with former porn star turned sex-positive CEO Candida Royalle. Candida is the founder and CEO of Femme Productions (www.royalle.com). Candida has designed her own line of vibrators, and Susie is more than willing to give them a try! Susie and Candida also talk about how porn stars have changed and how one goes about casting couples in porn who have chemistry. Then, in her mailbag, Susie helps a woman to fulfill her husband's fantasy for a three-way.

Susie's feeling vindicated by a recent medical journal report that drug companies are funding studies of female impotence. Susie says forget the pills and creams and get some lube. Then, Susie talks with her old friend and mentor Jared Rutter about the history of porn. In her mailbag, Susie reads a letter from a woman who wonders why her 23-year-old boyfriend has lost interest in sex, and from a man who says he really does like to take it slow.