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[Contains explicit content] In today's show, from 2014, Susie is totally enamored by The Honest Courtesan, a blog written by guest Maggie McNeil. Susie asks Maggie how she got started in the profession and why she finally gave it up. In the candid conversation, Maggie describes working in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. And Susie wants to know what the biggest myth is about prostitutes. Then, from the mailbag, Susie hears from a listener in England. He asks, "How can I get around the porn filters that David Cameron and company placed on the entire UK internet?" 

[Contains explicit content] In today's show, from 2013, Susie has a provocative interview with Jesse Bering, author of Perv: The Sexual Deviant in All of Us. His book takes a candid look at why we all have some perversion - and explains why being sexually deviant isn't as bad as we think. Susie and Jesse discuss the science behind sexuality, some famous and historically significant people who were outliers, and the difference between safe and harmful kink.  

In today's show, from 2013, Susie speaks with Molly Weatherfield, author of the classic S&M novel Carrie's Story. The book is regarded as one of the finest erotic novels ever written - smart, devastatingly sexy, and at times, shocking. Susie wanted to find out all the details that went into crafting this explicit, steaming story. Susie and Molly also discuss fetish sex, fantasy, Regency romance, and BDSM.  

Today's show, from 2012, features a lot of talk about anal sex. Susie starts out with a discussion of an erotic classic. The Marketplace by Laura Antoniou is kind of a mash-up of Story of O meets the smart girl who's into BDSM. This gets hot! Next, another edition of "Tell Me Your Sex Story", in which listeners tell Susie personal and intimate details about their sex lives.

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] Please enjoy this show from 2005. Susie takes a look at a phenomenon called post-coital anxiety syndrome and asks, "What the hell?" Then, a middle-of-the-road, Midwestern look at the transsexual experience, and the spiritual side effects of audible erotica.  

[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 2008 for you to enjoy. The show starts with a shocking idea: a married couple decides to have sex every night for a year! Susie reveals the details behind a very special birthday gift. Next, Susie delves into the world of chemical engineering to find out what makes Hell tick. That's right, as all of us heathens want to know, what exactly is Hell made of - and what are we in for? Finally, from the mailbag, Susie responds to a letter from a lesbian fisting devotee who gets reduced to tears by a demon cup.  

[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] 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.  

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.