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[Contains explicit content] Susie interviews the brilliant anthropologist author who cracked kink - Katharine Gates - on deviant desires, technology, and dead baby bunnies. Don't get her started! Ooops, too late.... Her seminal work on kink communities, Deviant Desires, has been released in a whole new edition that never fails to surprise.

[Contains explicit content] Susie talks guns, revolution, and sex. When Trump supporters start bandying about conspiracy theories that Parkland students are paid actors, Susie recalls being a teenage organizer sleeping with shotgun protection. Next, how can Florida declare porn a public health risk, while the state's gunned-down children are being buried?

[Contains explicit content] Susie asks, has sex for American women gotten so bad that orgasm isn’t even the issue anymore - that now it’s all about the pain threshold? Next, a woman in the Deep South knew who to call when her son came out to her - do you?

[Contains explicit content] Susie talks about the self worth and guts it takes to hire a prostitute when one is disabled. Next, have you ever heard of a mixed orientation marriage? And finally, it's "New on Audible": Jessica Graham's Good Sex: Getting Off Without Checking Out.

[Contains explicit content] Susie digs in to some of the issues needing to be addressed in the sex-work industry: health, labor, respect. First, the physical endurances of working in porn rival the NFL - only without the pension. Next, how a little something called "plaçage" informs the most fraught of interracial escort relationships.

[Contains explicit content] Susie talks with writer, editor, and professional pothead David Bienenstock about getting the most out of your legal weed in the bedroom.

[Contains explicit content] Susie hands out the Golden Duke awards for the most infamous news stories of 2017 - and in a year awash with scandal and scurrilous politicians, it was tough.

[Contains explicit content] Susie looks at the change in attitude law enforcement in Fresno is taking toward teenaged sex workers. Next, when your job is sex, is enthusiastic consent too much to ask?

[Contains explicit content] Susie takes you in the way-back machine to 1992. Sandra Bernhard was coming to national attention, based on a cheeky late night appearance with Madonna. She was starting to resent the focus on her sexuality, and who should the British Film Institute engage to publicly interview her? America's lesbian sex expert and pornographer Susie Bright. Tea was spilled, but no blood.

[Contains explicit content] Susie reviews this year's American Humanist Association conference in Charleston, South Carolina, and her award for Feminist Humanist of the Year. Next, a straight man who hates going down on women has his day in Social Media Court.

Contains explicit content] Susie introduces four new editions of Charles Bukowski's short fiction and memoirs to Audible. The patron saint of barflies and brawlers with tender souls wrote prolifically; each sentence a gem.

[Contains explicit content] Today's show features a lot about anal sex. Susie starts out looking at an erotic classic: The Marketplace by Laura Antoniou. Then, it's another edition of "Tell Me Your Sex Story". And finally, from our "Try This at Home" mailbag: "He wants to have anal sex, but only as the top."

[Contains explicit content] Susie talks about why consent is irrelevant if no one is allowed to say yes. The backlash to #metoo is here in reaction to outsized punishments for sexual transgressions and the infantilization of women.

[Contains explicit content] Susie looks into the world of evangelical child brides and why that made Roy Moore so palatable to some on the right. Next, did you know you can skip to the sex scenes in long-winded romance audiobooks?

[Contains explicit content] Susie asks: If the state of Minnesota seizes $20,000 from a sex worker, does that make the state her pimp? Next, from the department of terrible timing, LGBTQ youth from Latin America band together to seek asylum - the stories you've never heard from the Wall. And finally, it's "New on Audible": Magnus Mills' incredible The Forensic Records Society.

[Contains explicit content] Susie looks at an article from Vice about people who keep their polyamorous secret to have more poly satisfaction. Then, six members from the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS resign. What's up? And finally, the birth and sex rate plunges in Japan - let's parse the hype and the facts.

[Contains explicit content] Susie looks at the envy gay sex life (real and imagined) engenders in the hearts of straight women. Next: Boob jobs are not for men's pleasure; they never were. And finally, it's time to revisit Donna Tartt's The Secret History.

[Contains explicit content] Susie looks at Taiwan's answer to Sylvia Plath and David Foster Wallace, Qiu Miaojin. Her book Notes of a Crocodile, is challenging and beautiful and finally in English. Next, speaking of "miaos", the intense scrutiny over one sex story gone bad - "Cat Person" - gives Susie a glimpse at American "dating done bad".

[Contains explicit content] Susie addresses the media-mogul elephant in the room: Harvey Weinstein and the long, deep, egregious history of sexual harassment in Hollywood - and every other place and profession on this planet. Next, a Reddit user objects to the location of the female anus. And from the mailbag, a letter from a listener who takes offense at one of Susie's guest's language.

[Contains explicit content] Susie brings you a show from 2010. First, a sexual thumbs up nod to Canada, where courts have said whores can run a lawful business; now they can even call the police and report a bad client. Next, Susie has a voyeuristic interview with a willing listener into sex games. Then, a question from a listener: "How come I'm getting a migraine headache just as I'm about to orgasm?"