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This week, Susie focuses on "amoebas," people who don't have any sex drive and don't want to apologize for it. Susie shares interviews from listeners who have vaguely amoeba-like characteristics, but all for very different reasons. Also, in the "Try This At Home" mailbag, a married man who loves sex can't understand his wife's extremely low sex drive.

Susie has a New Year's resolution list like nothing you've seen before. Forget about losing weight or being nicer to your mother-in-law. Her list is about SEX. Susie shows us how to be more erotic, have better fantasies, and to allow your sensuous side to have fun. Let's ring in a healthy sexy New Year.

Foreign languages and words can sound so exotic. Do you know what yuanfen or forelskt mean? Hint: they both refer to different aspects of love and are untranslatable. But Susie's friend, linguist Geoffrey Pullum, finds ways to show the exquisite meaning from 10 international sex and love words. Susie reads his story, and it is touching.

First up: Susie looks at 10 sex emergencies the iPhone can help you with. It's true, there's a new iPhone "assistant" named "Siri" who will direct you to all sorts of services, from hookers and porn shops to the closest place to score more Viagra. But there is one service she has been programmed to avoid: information about abortion referrals. Seems like blowjobs are okay to recommend, but Siri follows the ultra-conservative line when it comes to a woman's choice.

Bible Belt religious leaders suffered a surprising political hit in Mississippi this week. A strange referendum called the Personhood Amendment was defeated by the voters, and phew! says Susie. This group was advocating that life begins at fertilization, or with the twinkle of an eye, and they wanted to demolish current abortion-rights laws. So for now, birth control is safe - but the Personhood initiative is not going away. Susie spells out just what happened and who the big players are in this wacky group.

There's a new embittered-fellow movement called "Men Going Their Own Way" that has Susie scratching her head. What's up with these guys? Why are they spending so much time talking about lesbians? Susie reads postings from an online forum, and these mostly straight-and-narrow guys have the weirdest take on bisexuals and homosexuals. Looks like some of the "going-their-own-wayers" are heading in a strange, asexual direction.

Yeehah!!! Party time for In Bed with Susie Bright as we reach show number 500. This week, let's celebrate and "listen back" to some of the show's most memorable moments. Over the past 10 years, Susie has interviewed celebrities, authors, and you listeners as well. She has offered advice and encouragement to keep living a sexually healthy lifestyle. And today we look back over the years by listening to excerpts.

This week we present the birth of a blue-movie critic. It's a look into how Susie went from being what Roger Ebert called an "innocent lesbian virgin" to the Pauline Kael of porn. She tells us about being hired by Penthouse Forum to write a pocket-sized journal focusing on sexy words rather than sexy pictures as she reviewed X-rated films. Our young Susie got a first-hand look into the world of porn movies, and oh what stories she has to tell!

What is the evolutionary purpose of a woman's orgasm? On today's show, Susie ponders this question and looks at a wired.com article that called the female O a "mystery". If an orgasm isn't necessary to procreate, why does it exist biologically? Men need an orgasm to produce semen, so the science makes sense, but what about women? Is the fairer sex entitled to pleasure just for a bonus, for fun and feeling good? So many questions… but here comes Susie to the rescue.

Here at In Bed, if someone describes you as having "a dirty mind", we call that a compliment. On today's show, Susie's guest, author Nicholson Baker, has been called that and much more. The New York Times even described him as the "mad scientist of smut". Susie and Nicholson talk about his steamy new book, House of Holes: A Book of Raunch. They discuss some of the book's outrageous scenes.

There seems to be some sex trouble lurking in a small town in Ohio. A local Adult Mart has had yet another customer crash a vehicle into the store - that's right, this has happened more than once! Bad driving isn't the problem; it seems this is a way to break in and steal some really good sex toys.

Emergency contraception pills like Plan B and RU-486 have helped women block unwanted pregnancies effectively. Today, Susie takes a look at the many morning-after choices - and a newly approved, but not yet available, pill called "Ella" - to see how they all measure up. All brands are effective, but price and timing are key to which option might be best for you.

Susie starts out today's show looking at a new study that has some shocking (not!) results. Bisexual men exist!!! Okay, so now science has done the research to prove that some people really are bi and not just gay in disguise. Susie looks into the methodology and tests they used, and tells us about how the study used sensors to monitor participant's erectile responses while watching various X-rated videos. Looks like the penis has spoken and can't tell a lie.

Today, in our "Try This at Home" mailbag, Susie gets a letter from a listener who works from home using the company's computer. She wonders if surfing the web for pornography is going to get her in trouble with the boss. What do you think Susie will say about this?

Remember Penthouse magazine? Back in the day, they featured the first-ever porn movie critic who was a female, feminist, and independent reporter. Guess who? That's right, it was Susie! And she's publishing a new book called Susie Bright's Erotic Screen The book features interviews and articles from her time at Penthouse. Today, Susie reads from one of the chapters featuring the legendary Russ Meyer.

Susie talks this week with one of her bosses, Debbie Stoller, the editor-in-chief of Bust magazine and a pioneer of "girly feminism." Debbie talks about the day she became a guy, her love of vibrators and where she thinks young women are getting their current obsession with g-spot orgasms and thong underwear. Then, in the mailbag, Susie tackles the weighty subject of what to do when your tubby hubby suggests you could stand to lose a few pounds.

Susie's outraged that the U.S. Justice Department is investigating whether a Texas biology professor discriminated against students who do not believe in evolution. Then, in her mailbag, Susie reads a letter from a woman who's really trying to find out what turns her on.

Susie knows it's already well into the school year, but now that textbooks have been marked, exams given and introductions made, Susie's sure you're thinking about sex. She offers her three golden rules for making the most out of your honey hive, a.k.a your current educational institution. Also, Danish nursing homes report on their latest treatment for grandpas - prostitutes - and Susie answers a letter from a woman who worries about her loveless marriage.

Today's show, from 2012, features a lot of talk about anal sex. Susie starts out with a discussion of an erotic classic. The Marketplace by Laura Antoniou is kind of a mash-up of Story of O meets the smart girl who's into BDSM. This gets hot! Next, another edition of "Tell Me Your Sex Story", in which listeners tell Susie personal and intimate details about their sex lives.

In this show from 2012, Susie speaks with comedian and author Lizz Winstead, co-creator of The Daily Show and radio's Air America. Lizz and Susie talk about what it was like growing up in a strict Catholic household. What happens to a wisecracking girl who knows that both having sex and using birth control are sins? She decides that if she doesn't use protection, she's only committing one sin instead of two! Lizz describes strange encounters with religious Right to Lifers, her mother, and Planned Parenthood.