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Susie's been reading a midwife's blog recently, and she came across a topic you usually don't hear much about: How being obese changes a woman's vagina and sexual response. Then, Susie says a recent article on the science of sex left her wanting, but confirms that our body is usually a couple of steps ahead of our brains when it comes to desire. And, in the mailbag, Susie answers a letter from a woman whose partner has a strange way of asking for sex.

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?

[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.

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.

In The Best American Erotica 2001, Marge Piercy introduces us to the nerd kid sex club, Nathan Englander explores the addictive power of a peep show, Jerry Stahl relates a dare from an extremely demanding girlfriend, and Dani Shapiro proves the difference between the fantasy and the reality of losing your virginity.

Best-selling author Susie Bright’s first work of fiction and her first collection of short stories. Bright reveals the outlier reaches of family, tribe, last rites—as well as the elegiac care and feeding of the fast-disappearing.

After Andrea Dworkin, the famous feminist philosopher and activist, passed away, her chief critic, Susie Bright, who many perceived as Dworkin's opposite, published a stirring obituary and series of essays in which she described the ways that Dworkin was a catalyst for the sex-positive movement in contemporary feminism.

[Contains explicit content] It's our last show after 22 years—ones of the longest-running podcasts in show business! In Bed set the tone for so much of what podcasting has come to mean: authenticity, intimacy, and saying what can't be said anywhere else. Susie interviews the behind-the-scenes Audible producers who have made IBWSB so special over the years: Kerry Donahue, Larry Blood, and Jessica Lockhart. We share some amazing memories and studio secrets that even Susie didn't know at the time!

[Contains explicit content] On today's show you'll meet a transgender listener in Tell Me Your Sex Story. Susie and "Allie" talk about what it was like growing up as a male and then transitioning to becoming a female. This very frank discussion includes: how orgasms changed when she went from penis to clit, how the libdo disappeared during hormone replacement therapy, and then what it was like to feel sexual as she changed genders.

[Contains explicit content] Susie has found a questionnaire that you won't want to miss: The National Casual Sex Survey. Here's a chance to see just how many Americans have had what's commonly known as a one-night stand. The survey is specific to sex that intentionally takes place without any kind of commitment, and you'll love the questions. Next, we continue with our listener interviews segment "Tell Me Your Sex Story". This week, Susie speaks with a quiet but steamy high school math teacher who details what makes her hot.

[Contains explicit content] Need a more youthful look? Don't think hair dye or eyelid lift - it’s time to color your labia. My New Pink Button is a product designed to give aging genitals their original rosy hue. Susie can barely stop laughing as she describes why none of us need this way-over-the-top beauty treatment. Next, Susie takes a look at a question that has haunted many couples. Is it reasonable to ask your lover to stop watching porn? Does watching porn amount to cheating?

Susie Bright, long-time host of Audible's own In Bed with Susie Bright, talks with Ian Kerner, the best-selling author of Be Honest - You're Not That into Him Either and She Comes First. With years of personal and clinical experience between them, Susie and Ian talk about the sexual dilemmas facing women and men these days - everything including dating, marriage, porn, body image, and much, much more.

[Contains explicit content] In this 2016 show, Susie talks with novelist James Grainger. His book Harmless explores sex and masculinity in the aging Gen X crowd. How do you write one sex scene to thrill and another to horrify? Titillation and sexual reality; threading the needle.

[Contains explicit content] From 2009: Susie tackles a medical concern on the mind of many guys: Does jacking off cause prostrate cancer? Fellows want to know if studies have shown that too much yanking is bad for their health. Susie turns to fellow sex advisor Cory Silverberg to learn more about prostrate research, but the findings are…inconclusive. So Susie says let's not give up on masturbation just yet!

[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] Back in 2009 nearly 190 million antidepressant prescriptions were dispensed in the United States, according to the National Institute of Mental Health. Imagine with the pandemic what today’s numbers might be. Antidepressants are put into groups based on which chemicals in the brain they affect. Susie looks at the sexual side effects of these drugs, including the loss of libido. That's not acceptable!

In this 2018 show, Susie talks to journalist Liza Featherstone about focus groups.

[Contains explicit content] In this 2006 show, Susie's in bed with an old friend: photographer Phyllis Christopher. Susie remembers the first time she received a package of S&M photos from an unknown woman in Buffalo, New York, more than two decades ago. Phyllis talks about what inspires her, how she became a pioneer in capturing images of women's sexuality, and much more. Then, Susie and Phyllis take on a tough letter from a man who wants some advice on getting over the death of his loving and sexually adventurous partner.

[Contains explicit content] Susie jumps into a hot-button issue on today's show: that sex addiction doesn't exist! Get ready for a fistfight. After a posting on Facebook, the debate by the FB friends was fierce from both sides of the issue. This all got started with an episode of The Joy Behar Show, when playmate Nicole confessed to being a recovering sex addict - because one day she couldn't stop masturbating. Susie says hogwash and blames media hype for labeling everything "addiction" to garner attention.

[Contains explicit content] In this 2018 show, Susie talks with writer, editor, and professional pothead David Bienenstock about getting the most out of your legal weed in the bedroom.