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It's not summer anymore but Susie's recently back from her summer vacation. Susie learned a little bit more about porn on the road and the pleasure of a good bathtub. And, while she was on vacation, Susie got a tip to buy the Nimbus 2000 - the children's toy that has hit the sex toy top ten. In her mailbag, Susie offers advice to a man who is worried that his brother is getting hosed by his swinging no-good wife. Don't forget, you can send your confidential sex questions and feedback to susie@audible.com.

Susie talks this week with writer, spoken work performance artist, former go-go dancer, and horse enthusiast Maggie Estep. As a child, Maggie's nomadic horse-training parents moved her from stable to stable in France and the U.S. While she says she doesn't get the "girls and horses" sex stuff, horses are becoming more and more prominent in her novels. Maggie Estep's latest novel is called Hex. In the mailbag, a listener offers his "Rules for Care of the Heart [and Self-Esteem] During Anonymous Sex."

It's a new year and Susie's ready. This week, it's part one of Susie's Year in Sex - a retrospective on the sex-positive news of 2001, such as: Since 9/11, more sex in America, aging baby-boomers keep having - and talking about - sex, and war distracts from indecency campaigns. Also, in the bad sex news of 2001 - the fetishization of nudity, abstinence education, and the virginal Britney Spears. Also, Susie reads a story about wedding shopping for Larry Flynt and follows up with some mailbag successes.

Please note: Susie is away this week conducting interviews in NYC for future episodes of In Bed with Susie Bright. In the meantime, we offer you this program from her archives.
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 this week 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 facinating dicussion, Susie talks with...

It's Susie's second anniversary show! Susie's terrific Los Angeles interview series kicks off with Jill Soloway, one of the writers and producers of HBO's hit series Six Feet Under. Even if you've never seen the show, the behind-the-scenes story of how the characters are developed is fascinating.

Susie cheers the outcome of a recent criminal case in Dallas involving a porn store clerk who successful fought charges brought against her for selling pornography. In her interview, Susie talks this week with Jill Nagle, the author of Whores and Other Feminists. Jill also teaches classes on how to flirt. Susie and Jill compare their flirting techniques and talk about why a woman might chose to date gay men. In her mailbag, a man wonders if there's such a thing as sex addiction.

Still looking for something for your valentine? Don't despair - Susie has recommendations for all the traditional V-Day gifts - flowers, yes; chocolate, maybe; diamond genital leash, big yes. Susie wonders if there really are secret sex tips that only the pros know. She offers her three biggest recommendations for making your sex life soar. In her mailbag, Susie answers questions about the pleasures of masturbation, wearing women's panties, and the locked up secrets of the male chastity belt.

It's Susie's 50th time In Bed with this week's show and, to celebrate, Susie brought her friends Shar Rednour and Jackie Strano in to talk about the perfect three-way, keeping jealousy at bay in an open relationship, what straight men can learn about anal sex from lesbians, and how to know what you're looking for from a date, a friend, and a lover.

Susie hears a juicy sex dispatch from a listener in North Dakota regarding a sex columnist recenty 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 Urban and Susie reads part of the preface as well as the larger-than-life story of Chogyam Trungpa.

Susie's NYC interviews are here! Susie kicks off the series by talking with Robin Adams and Micole Taggart, the women behind Sweet Action Magazine (www.sweetactionmag.com). Sweet Action is one of the rarest of porn mags, created by straight women for straight women. It features lots of nude pictures of hunky men and some tips-and-tricks articles to help straight women improve their game.

Susie's has an even more scandalous update for those of you following her fight against Pay Pal. It turns out Pay Pal's new policy against selling "indecent" material is just the tip of the iceberg of a much bigger scam. Also in the news, Susie has an update on the Bush administration's recent efforts to reduce funding of NIH programs researching sexual behavior. Then, in her mailbag, Susie gets a letter from a woman who's just starting to explore her sexual feelings and a man who'd like to tone his down.

Susie's recent experience as a Macworld Expo booth babe gave her a chance to meet some In Bed listeners. She heard tales of heart disease and distant libidos, seventy-year-olds burning up the sheets, and even bumped into some wayward Baptists. Then, Susie jumps for joy at NY Governor George Pataki's recent pardon of comedian Lenny Bruce and celebrates by reading excerpts of Paul Krassner's interviews with Bruce. In her mailbag, Susie explains Kegel exercises.

Michael Jackson is pleading innocent to seven felony counts of child molestation, but Susie says it's time for Jacko and his family to finally admit to the abuse that's driven him to Neverland and beyond. Then, Susie is shaking her head in disbelief about a recent case in Texas where a woman was charged with obscenity for selling sex toys. In her mailbag, Susie answers two letters from women - one is searching for non-annoying birth control and the second is seeking her depressed libido.

Susie talks this week with widely published and respected gay cultural critic Michael Bronski about Fifties pulp fiction novels, young gay men's views on commitment, and the on-screen love lives of Jewish men in Hollywood and in porn. Michael is the editor of Pulp Friction and the author of Culture Clash. Then, from her mailbag, Susie gives her parenting advice for a father who wants to help his two daughters to grow up sex positive.

Susie's in the studio this week with her good friend and author Joe Westmoreland. For the past twenty years, Joe's been Susie's arbiter of noteworthy trends - from Betty Page to Traci Lords, bad TV to Ema Sumac, and much more. Joe's the author of Tramps Like Us, a memoir of leaving his hometown of Kansas City, Missouri in search of love, drugs and freedom in San Francisco. Then, in her mailbag, Susie advises a man who is convinced he's the most submissive guy around.

While folks around the U.S. recently observed the 30-year mark of legalized abortion, Susie says she's fed up with both sides of this topic. Susie says let's put sex back into the ideas of sexual liberation. Then, in her mailbag, Susie offers a listener the key to decoding those "escort" classified ads. Wondering what's the difference is between "adult entertainment" and "sensual body work"? Is $150 too much or too little to pay? Susie explains all.

It's the second part of the two-part encore edition of In Bed with Susie Bright. Last week, Susie offered her "helpful" hints for women who want to ruin their sex lives. Now, she turns her tongue-and-cheek toward men. Follow these 10 pointers and Susie's sure men will be rock hard where it counts the most - on the inside. And, Susie announces the winners for the most underreported sex story of 2001 - it's more than a year later, but do the stories still ring true? You decide.

Susie thinks back fondly to her early viewings of the Joy of Sex. But, a recent New York Times interview with author Alex Comfort's son and a recent reissue of the 1972 mega-best seller have Susie taking a second look at the old erotic war horse. And, at last, In Bed with Susie Bright listeners, you'll get an earful of a Susie conspiracy theory (hint: think breasts vs. vaginas). In the Try This at Home mailbag, Susie helps a man learn to dominate and woman learn to say "No."

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.

Susie thinks you'll be surprised by how much monogamous and non-monogamous couples have in common. She says setting your own rules for your relationship as a couple can make things a little easier. Plus, Susie looks at the price the Army will pay to "entertain" the troops. In her Try This at Home mailbag, Susie answers a letter from a woman who wonders, where did all the good gigolos go?