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Sexual Reality marks Susie Bright's return to politics and passion, jealousy and risk - in an intimate look at the human sexual condition. Chapters include: "The Story of O Birthday Party", "Strip Tea: A Most Unusual Tea Party", "Undressing Camille Paglia", "Egg Sex: Pregnancy and a Mother's Sex Life", "Blindsexual: What Every Bisexual Needs to Know", and "When 'No' Means 'I Didn't Know It Would Be Like This'".

Today, Susie has a very special interview to share with you. We'll be talking with best-selling author Christopher Ryan about his book Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality. This anthropologic look into myths versus sexual realities inspires a great discussion. Christopher and Susie discuss whether jealousy is an animalistic urge or if it can it be controlled, how far back monogamy goes in our species, and why so many marriages are dysfunctional.

If you've ever wondered if being a sexual swinger is for you, this show is a must listen. This week, Susie interviews award-winning author, columnist, editor, and sex educator Tristan Taormino, and the topic of conversation is open relationships and how you make them work. Susie gets Tristan to reveal the juiciest parts of her new book Opening Up: A Guide to Creating and Sustaining Open Relationships.

[Contains explicit content] Susie and Ann Powers talk about that "good booty". Ann's new book, Good Booty: Love and Sex, Black and White, Body and Soul in American Music, explores two centuries of sexual healing.

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 calls it from north of the border - the inauguration, the protests, the threat of martial law. What did it look like from the outside? Then, from the mail bag: two 30-year-old men who've never been kissed and want to know how to talk to women.

On this week's In Bed, Susie talks to Jennifer Tyburczy about her book Sex Museum. She traveled the world visiting sex and fine-art museums, and has some unexpected conclusions. Then, in "New on Audible", it's A Hanging at Cinder Bottom. This audacious new book brings together Charles Portis and the Coen Brothers in a rollicking Appalachian adventure.

On this week's In Bed, Susie pulls on her thigh-high boots to wade into the cesspool at the bottom of the Oakland Police Department. The scandal includes cops pimping teenage hookers and a murder-suicide that spilled all the beans. One prostitute is not holding back. What does her story tell us? Then, a married math professor has fathered 22 children through unofficial sperm donations, sometimes delivered in a Target men's room.

[Contains explicit content] Susie has some sexual advice that could save every man's life: Beat off like your life depends on it! A study shows that regular masturbation can reduce the risk of developing prostate cancer. Next, Susie takes a look at one literary author's secret success in writing erotic novels. Writer Rupert Smith takes on the "nom de porn" as James Lear as he writes steamy gay porn fiction. And finally, Susie gets a letter from a listener who reminisces about her sexy youthful time in New Orleans.

Susie has a book, The Erotic Screen, Vol. 1, that recalls the glory days of cinema's porn industry. On today's show, Susie becomes the guest as we feature an interview she did with Mike White, producer of The Projection Booth podcast, on his show. Grab your popcorn and vibrators!

[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] Susie's wants you to enjoy a show from 2004. Her guest is former Penthouse editor Lavada Nahon. Lavada reveals the truth behind some of the magazine's best-known columns, including "Penthouse Letters". She also talks about some of her own sexual and personal awakenings while at Penthouse, including a sex scandal that hit a bit too close to home. Then, from the mailbag, Susie reads some sexy movie reviews.

[Contains explicit content] Please enjoy this show from 2014. Susie interviews Eric Schaefer, author of Sex Scene: Media and the Sexual Revolution. Professor Schaefer teaches at Emerson College. His book looks at exploitation and sexploitation within films, tabloids, novels, and audio recordings. Then Susie introduces us to a sexy, must-listen audiobook: Lust in Latex: Rubber Sex Stories, edited by Rebecca Kramer Bussel. Susie loves this book because there are endless ways to combine sex and latex - some kinky, some fetish - and all of the stories are steamy hot.

[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?"

[Contains explicit content] Today's show features two letters from a married couple who want to transform their monogamous relationship into an open marriage. They each sent Susie a letter separately, detailing their concerns and desires. You'll hear why the wife wants more, and then, how the husband is excited but really nervous about going from vanilla to raspberry chocolate pistachio and butter brickle with a cherry on the top. "Can our marriage change this drastically and survive?" Susie has many thoughts and some advice.

Today's show is a primer for spicing up your sex life. Susie takes us from how to participate in a kinky, successful three-way to the opposite extreme of achieving orgasm in the missionary position. Then, Susie responds to a listener who really, really wants help with having an orgasm.

Free-market conservatives are actively strategizing on shutting down the government, based on fighting birth control. What's their end game? Susie is fascinated by these Republican lawmakers and has wondered why they are so adamant about getting their way. Reading from Amanda Marcotte's article in The Guardian, Susie covers the major points that make the right wingers so upset with Planned Parenthood's clientele. It has to do with being angry at people who are low-income, female, unmarried, and having kids.

You've heard of Anaïs Nin, the free-spirited feminist intellectual, but have you heard of Bern Porter? Susie starts of today's show with a look at one man's wild recounting of his supposedly wild sex life with Nin.

Today, Susie breaks open two controversial topics: incest - and justice. She begins with the most provocative child-abuse accusation to enter the public's awareness in years - Dylan Farrow vs. Woody Allen - and ends with an argument for justice that is ageless. Susie ponders the question of what we are supposed to think when celebrities take to the press about their family abuse. Is it about money? Is it about immortality? Or is it just more of the screwed-up lives that Hollywood produces so effortlessly?

Susie is off this week but wants to share a great show from 2008 with you. This a must-listen-to primer for anyone interested in spicing up his/her sex life. Susie takes us from how to participate in kinky, successful three-way sex to the opposite extreme of how to achieve orgasm in the traditional missionary position. We have something for everyone today! Susie starts off with all the variations available when participating in a threesome. She explains the different dynamics involved when it's two girls and one guy compared with two guys and one girl, or what to expect if it's all girls!