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[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 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] Stormy Daniels and Trump: All the hush money in the world can't make him a virtuous man. Next, Margaret Atwood gets called out for suggesting we fix due process. And finally, Susie discusses office etiquette for conscientious subs and masters.

[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] 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 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 presents Who Killed Hunter S. Thompson?, the gonzo art-memoir-history of our dearly departed. Next, The Mitchell Brothers' O'Farrell Theater is no more; the night manager locked up and the building has been sold.

[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.

In this episode, Susie finds the ultimate deathbed accusation - and she'll help you to avoid such rancor when you're on yours. Then, a gay grandson is barred from singing at his grandmother's funeral - by the queeniest priest you've ever laid eyes on. And in "New on Audible", Susie discusses Shahid Arabi's Becoming the Narcissist's Nightmare: How to Devalue and Discard the Narcissist While Supplying Yourself. Let's all resist the narcissists out there!

On this week's In Bed, Susie talks us all off the ledge! In this post-election special, she showcases incendiary poetry, radical self-care, and activism that moves the needle. Plus: a look at the new Trump Sexual Lexicon and what the changing of the guard means for our sexual trajectory.

On this week's In Bed, Susie hashes out how "pussy" became the word of the 2016 election. Next, Michelle Obama said everything that mattered in a speech that responds to Trump's blithe sexism. Then, it's "New on Audible". Susie discusses Charlotte Stewart's scorched-earth memoir of Hollywood's wild 1970s - Little House in the Hollywood Hills: A Bad Girl's Guide to Becoming Miss Beadle, Mary X, and Me.

[Contains explicit content] Susie rolls out a pink fur carpet for our new Audible Channels listeners.

Next, she finds out how to get laid exquisitely on Tinder — if you don't want to be a boy or a girl.

Finally, she helps a listener navigate a May-December romance, and a lifetime of sexual shame.

Have a question or news story for Susie? You can send your confidential queries and comments to susie@susiebright.com. [Episode 729, December 2, 2016]

On this week's In Bed, Susie talks to writer Steven Gaines. His memoir One of These Things First about growing up gay in Brooklyn and his time in the Payne Whitney psychiatric clinic has just been released. Then, it's "New on Audible". The Cigar Factory is a story of two families in South Carolina during the world wars.

On this week's In Bed, Susie looks at sex in space. Sorry Barbarella, it ain't that easy! Next, biologists have finally come up with a plausible theory for the evolution of female orgasm. And finally, it's "New on Audible". Chaos Monkeys both skewers Silicon Valley's work culture and gives a balanced assessment of how things work there.

On this week's In Bed, Susie looks at what it means when the newspaper of record stops pandering to the rescue industry and gives voice to sex workers and human-rights activists. Then, how much do you want your tampon to tell your smartphone about your flow? It's Bluetooth for your vag!

On this week's In Bed, Susie asks why Michigan babies are still drinking lead-filled water while state legislators have their hands full passing a new anti-sodomy law. Dirty water okay...dirty sex never!

[Contains explicit content] Susie sets the record straight: Anal tattoos can be fun! At a recent tattoo convention, a young woman made quite a stir as she allowed cameras to record her getting a tattoo on her asshole. "What's all the fuss about?" says Susie. Tattoos have become so commonplace, and it seems that no body part is off limits...or maybe not. Reddit.com has comments from a surprisingly large number of offended men who think that getting your anus decorated is too much.

[Contains explicit content] The new head of The Kinsey Institute wants to focus on relationships and well-being instead of plain old sex. Laudatory goal? Or right-wing dog whispering?

Next, firms that collect healthcare data can now inform your boss if they suspect you're trying to get pregnant. What could possibly go wrong?

Finally, it's "What's New on Audible". Susie loves Peter Coyote's magnificent new memoir, The Rainman's Third Cure: An Unsentimental Education.

Happy New Year! Susie is off this week, but she has a very special interview to share with you from 2010. We'll be talking with best-selling author Christopher Ryan about his book Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Relationships. This anthropologic look into myths versus sexual realities offers up a great dialog. Christopher and Susie discuss whether jealousy is an animalistic urge or can be controlled, how far back monogamy goes in our species, and why so many marriages become dysfunctional.