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This beautifully produced book contains the landmark work of the most influential lesbian photographers in the world, including Morgan Gwenwald, Della Grace, Diana Blok, Tee Corrine, Jill Posener, and Honey Lee Cottrell. Beyond the impact of the individual photographers, Bright writes about the themes that have fueled lesbian photography, including the feminist approach to the body and the lesbian relationship to popular culture.

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] 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] 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] Have you ever had a G-spot orgasm? Or maybe you've helped your partner find their G-spot? This erogenous female zone has perplexed many, and some British researchers claim the spot is nonexistent. Susie says give me a break! The story was posted on The Daily Beast blog, and many sexperts are refuting the study. Susie talks about why the G-spot is so controversial and why money is being spent to make it go away. Next: more mixed messages, with a story about depression and prescription drugs.

[Contains explicit content] In this 2019 show, Susie recalls the life and work of one of her biggest intellectual influences, Ann Snitow, and reads an excerpt from her paper, "Mass Market Romance: Pornography for Women Is Different". And then, "New on Audible": Margaret Atwood's Life Before Man, a sophisticated meditation on non-monogamy and marriage.

[Contains explicit content] Okay, it sounds like a joke: too many orgasms? No way! But a disorder called Persistent Sexual Arousal Syndrome seems to turn a good thing into an uncontrollable pain in the loins. We hear about a woman who can't stop having orgasms. But Susie is skeptical about the origins of this disorder and wants to hear more from medical experts about how such a twisted turn on such a pleasurable action could happen.

[Contains explicit content] Susie takes a look at what it's really like to be bisexual and notes that bisexuality isn't all it's cracked up to be. Imagine being shunned by both straights and gays because you just don't fit in. Susie reads from her story "Blind Sexual", which is not a happy story, but it does have some sexy twists and turns. And surprisingly, you'll hear from Roland Barthes, the French grand master of theoretical criticism, as Susie quotes from his classic book A Lover's Discourse to make sense of her suffering through rejection from both sexes.

[Contains explicit content] In this 2004 show, Susie's guest is Veronica Vera, founder and dean of Miss Vera's Finishing School for Boys Who Want to be Girls and the author of Miss Vera's Cross-Dress for Success. Susie's first glimpse into Miss Vera's copious collection of lacy underthings was a true introduction to Miss V's dedication to all things womanly. At her cross-dressing academy, men (and some women) sign up for classes to learn the fine arts of being a woman.

[Contains explicit content] In this 2006 show, Susie's guest is Laura Kipnis, author of The Female Thing: Dirt, Sex, Envy, Vulnerability, and Against Love. Laura Kipnis says women today are deeply conflicted about what it means to be female. With most advice based on helping women obtain what they "lack", Laura says women now spend inordinate amounts of time keeping themselves and their houses clean. While Susie and Laura don't see eye-to-eye on every issue, their different viewpoints offer a fascinating look at feminism and womanhood today.