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Susie is home for the holidays, but wants you to enjoy this show from 2010…. This week is Part One of a conversation with Yale psychology professor Paul Bloom about his new book How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like. Susie is intrigued to hear what Dr. Bloom has discovered about desire and what we can and can't control. Susie and Paul discuss pornography and why it is so arousing. They also talk about sperm wars and why American men have such large testicles.

Susie talks about the Bush administration's muzzling of the surgeon general. She also talks with Richard Connerney, a Phillips Talbot fellow at the Institute of Current World Affairs, who spent the past two years living in Lucknow, India. Susie asks Richard about India's hidden gay life, AIDS education, and his personal sexual exploits. Then, in the mailbag, Susie reveals how porn stars get away with so much sex without getting sick.

On this week's In Bed, Susie talks to author Victoria Bynum. Her book The Free State of Jones turns the narrative of slavery and rebellion in the South on its ear, and explores the legacy of miscegenation still being worked out today. It was made into a major motion picture starring Matthew McConaughey, which will be released in June.

With the Academy Awards just around the corner, Susie looks at what has prompted some heated debates over the sex scenes in one of the nominated movies: Black Swan. Watching Natalie Portman masturbate and orgasm was hot to watch, but for some women, it caused a stir about the best way to get off. Susie says as long as you come, why criticize the method?

Happy Halloween, and as a ghoulish treat, Susie reads a story that is so scary, sexy, and suspenseful you may want to keep the lights on and be sure to lock the doors. The story is from Susie's newest book, X, The Erotic Treasury, and this dark, taboo piece is written by Vicki Hendricks.

It's every parent's nightmare: talking about sex with your teenager. Susie and her daughter are beyond that scary conversation; instead they recently had the chance to together give out sexual advice on the popular blog Jezebel.

[Contains explicit content] Susie breaks down the overlooked consequences of the Jeffrey Epstein trafficking case: how he profits, who'll be hurt, how it will affect sex workers, and who will pay. It ain't gonna be the abusers. Strap in for a hell of a ride. And then, new on Audible, Nancy Friday explores changing fantasies in Women on Top.

Sex Researchers, Prostitutes, Sexologists, and MDs are some of the guests who talk about every sexual hot spot with Susie Bright. From masturbation and orgasms, to challenging sex games and surviving incest - no subject is taboo.

Susie spends the entire show with guest Daniel Bergner, whose book What Do Women Want? was on the New York Times best-seller list. The book is subtitled Adventures in the Science of Female Desire, and it disrupts the typical idea that women are more monogamous than men. Bergner's research also turns the tables on conventional thinking about women's desires and arousal.

Susie celebrated the very start of 2007 by putting winning a wet T-shirt contest: her first! Then, when Susie looks back on 2006, she says one of the biggest sex stories was Britney Spears flashing herself for the world to see. Susie says the whole phenomenon is remarkable, but mostly because people don't even know, or want to know, what they're looking at. Then, in the mailbag, Susie offers some advice to a woman who worries her boyfriend will be grossed out when he goes down on her.

Susie Bright, “The Pauline Kael of Porn” (SF Chronicle), rips open the history of erotic cinema before the internet— from the Golden Age of lavish 35mm hardcore, to the video-inspired “Porno Spring”, initiated by none other than punk, feminist, and lesbian video-makers.

[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.

Susie's guest this week is Ariel Levy, a contributing editor at New York<.i> magazine and the author of the controversial new book, Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture. In this fascinating and funny interview, 30-year-old Ariel and Susie talk about what people (mis)take for sexy these days and what it all means when feminism goes the way of most revolutions and is co-opted by they mainstream culture. Then, in the mailbag, a recently divorce man gets all bondage, no orgasm.

Susie takes a look at some of the ways the Bush administration is spending its last months, including a big new federal porn bust. Yes, let's continue the war efforts with a new war on porn. Obscenity is at the heart of a suit brought against Evil Angel Productions, a film company that doesn't comply with Bush's faith-based values. The films in question depict female squirting, anal squirting, and enemas. Free speech and the first amendment will have to face their day in court again.

Today's show addresses every new parent's concern: Will we ever have sex again? Do you feel like you're in a time warp with your baby or toddler, with no hope of romance returning? Well, worry no more. Susie gives advice to all parents. This is part of an interview Susie had with a super-cool parenting magazine called Haus Frau, edited by Nicole Chaison. The magazine focuses on real family challenges: head lice, traveling with kids, and (in the upcoming issue with Susie) sex.

Back in the news again is Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. And once more he's being scrutinized for his sexual habits. Surprisingly, Susie finds one thing she and Thomas have in common: their love of porn! This is a "hobby" that plenty of people enjoy, so what's the problem if a bigwig justice is also a collector of porn? Nothing wrong there, says Susie, but she finds his alleged sexual bullying, harassment of women, and sexual tyranny a real problem.

On today's show, you're going to feel the heat! Susie begins by describing a scene from a movie called Headshot. This short film about a man getting a blowjob will make you feel like you are there in the room with him. Susie gets the intimate details in her interview with erotica filmmaker Jennifer Lyon Bell. Susie and Jennifer talk about what makes porn on screen so hot, how the actors prepare for sex scenes, and why showing explicit sex isn't always necessary to make a great erotic film.

Today's show looks at three outcomes of sex. Does having sex promote happiness? Is prostitution really forced on women? And what happens to a wife who is denied sex? First off, Susie looks at how America has become the gosh-darn happy-face nation when confronted with personal illness. Susie reads from an article published in Psychology Today by author Ariel Gore, who kept a journal to track what conditions made her happy. Susie wonders how sex figures into that equation.

Shopping for all your essentials is now easier. You just have to hit one store for your toothpaste, kitty litter, cough drops - and new vibrator! Yes, once only purchased at sex stores and discreetly online, now vibrators are the hottest items to be stocked prominently at a 7-Eleven near you. Susie wonders what to make of this new acceptance by prudish corporate America, and supposes we must follow the money....

Can we ever have too much sex? Can we ever love someone too much? On today's show, Susie discusses what marks the difference between healthy and addictive love. She speaks with author Rachel Resnick about her new book Love Junkie: A Memoir.