Showing results by publisher "In Bed with Susie Bright" in Sexual & Reproductive Health

[Contains explicit content] In this 2004 show, Susie's in the studio with one of her oldest friends and feminist mentors, Barbara Winslow. Barbara heads the women's studies department at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. She is also the author of Sylvia Pankhurst: Sexual Politics and Political Activism. In a fun romp through more than a century of feminist thought, Susie and Barbara discuss the history of free love, focusing on religious communitarians during the Reform period as well as the complicated love lives of later notable women. 

[Contains explicit content] In this 2016 show, Susie talks to Jennifer Tyburczy about her book Sex Museums. She traveled the world visiting sex and fine art museums and has some unexpected conclusions.

[Contains explicit content] In this 2018 show, Susie talks to Hallie Lieberman about her fun, surprising, and long history of sex toys: Buzz: A Stimulating History of the Sex Toy.  

[Contains explicit content] From 2008: Susie looks at how Black and inter-racial sex videos have evolved since the 1980s. The adult video boom thrives on bringing sexual secrets into America's bedrooms, capitalizing on taboo interests. With titles like Black Chicks Do It Better and In and Out of Africa, these porn movies presented themes that at the time seemed risky but soon became the norm. Susie's investigative reporting examines why racism penetrated the porn industry.

[Contains explicit content] In this 2019 show, Susie looks at the predictably tragic history of female masturbation cures through the ages. Next, how do sex workers draw the line between sex and work? Easily. And then, "New on Audible": Jane Harper's The Lost Man had Susie in bed till all hours just find out who dunnit. 

[Contains explicit content] In this a 2018 show, Susie interviews the brilliant anthropologist author who cracked kink: Katharine Gates. They discuss deviant desires, technology, and dead baby bunnies. Don't get her started! Ooops, too late.... She's released her seminal book on kink communities, Deviant Desires, in a whole new edition that never fails to surprise.

[Contains explicit content] Please enjoy this show from 2005. Susie takes a look at a phenomenon called post-coital anxiety syndrome and asks, "What the hell?" Then, a middle-of-the-road, Midwestern look at the transsexual experience, and the spiritual side effects of audible erotica.  

[Contains explicit content] From 2005: Susie says there are many sexy things you can do in your car. For example, the California State Assembly upheld the right to play porn on an in-car DVD system, Next, after years of opening sexually explicit mail in her local post office, Susie received a book that gave even her pause. The topic? Enemas. And finally, from the mailbag, Susie offers advice to a man who says he loves living with his girlfriend - but needs time for his "solo sex life" too. 

[Contains explicit content] Susie has an interview from 2008 with Elizabeth Pisani, author of The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels and the Business of AIDS. Susie and Pisani discuss government bamboozling of the public about the disease. They also consider if the number of sexual partners one has makes contracting AIDS inevitable. And what about condoms? Are sexual workers in countries that require condoms changing attitudes, because using them decreases the disease? 

Contains explicit content] Susie invites you to enjoy an interview from 2012 with one of her favorite authors. In Hanne Blank's Straight: The Surprisingly Short History of Heterosexuality she delves into the history of how hetero was created and marketed around the time of World War II. Susie and Hanne talk about heterosexuality as a middle-class notion, medical science, and understandings about sexuality. Is there really a gay brain versus a straight brain?

[Contains explicit content] Here at In Bed if someone describes you as having "a dirty mind", we call that a compliment. Susie's guest today, author Nicholson Baker, has been defined that way and in many more. The New York Times called him the "mad scientist of smut". Susie and Nicholson discuss his steamy book House of Holes - a book of raunch, filled with fantasy and wild pleasures. Among the outrageous scenes: what happens when want to exchange your right arm for a gigantic penis.  

[Contains explicit content] It's the second part of Susie's rare interview with porn star Jamie Gillis from 2007. Jamie talks about how his family supported his work and what porn stars know about getting themselves off that other people don't. Then, from the mailbag, Susie is admonished by a listener whose son has autism and who wonders how she can support her son's sexuality.  

[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] Susie catches up with Tristan Taormino. They explore extreme tickling, how to fix a leather contest, and "WTF happened to the porn business?"