Showing results by author "Susie Bright"

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.

Today's show will reveal everything you ever wanted to know about the illustrious G-spot. Over the years, Susie has written books, interviewed authors, and answered many listener questions about just what the female G-spot is. She's compiled many of her best segments on squirting, masturbating, and how to find the G-spot from five years of In Bed discussions. So sit back and relax if you can, because this 80-minute special is bound to excite and will certainly get you hot. Feel free to take notes!

Are you ready to really spice things up? Susie wants to tell you about the best new sex toys in her toy box! Everyone’s favorite vibrator, the Hitachi Magic Wand, has come up with a new and improved version. Then there's the Njoy - a dildo that will fondle your G-spot or prostrate in a way you’ve never imagined. And to top off the list: Eva, a wearable, hands-free vibrator that will turn your vanilla sex into a banana split with all the toppings.

Susie Bright, founder of Best American Erotica, presents a classic, taboo-breaking collection of men’s erotic fiction - featuring the most unrepentant gay literary heroes of our generation. Legendary writers like John Preston, Samuel Delany, Steven Saylor/Aaron Travis, Lars Eighner, Dennis Cooper - who can imagine men’s intimate and transgressive lives without them?

On this week's In Bed, Susie talks to writer Charlotte Shane. Her recent article for Fusion, "The Painful Truth About Tight Vaginas", broke down cultural expectations and shed light on the harm done by Kegels.

Susie looks at a new study showing why Americans are having less sex then ever. Next, a map that shows all the names given to syphilis before it was "syphilis" doubles as a guide to national prejudice. And finally, it's "New on Audible": a very special edition of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale.

Susie is off this week but wants you to enjoy a show from 2007. During a trip to New York, Susie talks with award-winning author, columnist, and pornographic-film director Tristan Taormino. Smart Ass Productions, Taormino's adult-film company, produces a sexy reality show and a sex-education series. Susie and Tristan talk about making movies, female squirting, and gay literature.

Susie Bright is the first and reigning queen of contemporary erotica. In How to Write a Dirty Story she reveals her tricks of the trade and shows you how to heat up sex scenes in everything from traditional novels and romances to science fiction and humor. Easing the aspiring writer into the creative process, she tells you how to write the steamy plots and sensual characters that publishers and readers (and listeners) are looking for.

Susie catches up with Tristan Taormino about extreme tickling, how to fix a leather contest, and "WTF happened to the porn business?"

Susie is off this week, but she has a great show from 2009 for you to enjoy! Today's show features vibrators, orgies, and hickeys. Susie begins with some fabulous tips on how to hide an unexpected hickey. If you've ever had an illicit affair with an over-zealous romantic sucker, you know you've got to learn how to cover up the evidence.

On this week's In Bed, Susie asks why the New York Times wants to rewrite Soul on Ice - but no one wants to address the Great White Cuckolding. Next, from the mailbag, is it "cheating" if someone in a polyamorous relationship forgets to mention they "stepped out"?

Susie has a show from 2014 for you to enjoy, featuring a juicy and complex epistle from her "Try This at Home" mailbag. Actually, there are two letters from a married couple who want to try an open marriage. They corresponded separately, detailing their concerns and desires. You’ll hear why the wife wants more, and then how the husband is excited but nervous about going from vanilla to raspberry chocolate pistachio and butter brickle with a cherry on the top.

A landmark court ruling in Japan has stated that, since prostitution in their country is a business transaction, wives can't claim it as adultery. So why is this a big deal? Japanese wives are entitled to monetary compensation when their husbands have mistresses. Susie is torn about this: She's sympathetic to prostitutes being able to earn their livelihoods, but this does take power away from Japanese women. The court ruling was issued...yes, by a man.

On this week's In Bed, Susie has an intimate conversation with author Juan F. Thompson, son of gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson. "This is more like a conversation with a friend than a journalist," Juan says. They both learned a great deal from each other. Susie was a friend of Hunter's. Juan was the one person Hunter trusted completely. They talk about the nitty-gritty of Hunter's struggles with writing, his sexual point of view, what it meant to him to be a man in full, and living up to a mythic, impossible reputation.

Susie Bright, one of America's best-known sexperts, addresses the sexual politics of the day's news, reviews recent movies and erotic books, answers your sex and relationship questions, and more in this exclusive AudibleOriginal®. Get the latest issue or subscribe!

Susie is off this week, but she wants to revisit an interview she had with Eric Schaefer, author of Sex Scene: Media and the Sexual Revolution. Professor Schaefer teaches at Emerson College in the Visual and Media Arts Department. His book looks at exploitation and sexploitation within films, tabloids, novels, and audio recordings.

Pulitzer Prize-winner Jane Smiley details a beautiful erotic interlude in an otherwise sordid real estate deal; Mary Gaitskill celebrates the unexpected ardor of one middle-aged couple; Steve Almond reminisces about the best one-man/three-girl Ecstasy party ever; Nelson George recounts the erotic escapades that befall a young man who accompanies a celebrity athlete when he picks up a gaggle of girls; and Carol Queen explores the joys of making love with summer fruit.

[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.

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.

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.