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[Contains explicit content] Susie looks back on a time when a lone woman could be picked up on suspicion of being immoral. Next, all that talk of the millennial prudes? Their defense is that they’re focused on quality, not quantity. Susie has an argument for that. And then, new on Audible: Wilton Barnhardt’s Every True Pleasure: LGBTQ Tales of North Carolina gathers North Carolina’s finest writers to show the multifaceted challenges and joys of LGBTQ life.

Susie tells a story about her trip to the desert and who she found there. Next, after the 2016 election, women went out en masse to get IUDs. And finally, it's "New on Audible": Eve L. Ewing's Electric Arches is poetry that tells a story.

[Contains explicit content] Susie catches up with listener letters, including two letters on matters both global and personal. Then, it's "What's on Audible": Tristan Taormino's Down and Dirty Sex Secrets is a how-to audiobook that covers oral sex, multiple orgasms, strap-ons, female ejaculation, S&M, and more.

Susie tells her birth story: vibrators, labial rings, and Gloria Steinem in the maternity ward. Next, Shakespeare’s sonnets map a queer love triangle that, even through a historical lens, is undeniable. Then, it's "New on Audible": a full, dramatized collection of Shakespeare’s sonnets from an all-star cast.

[Contains explicit content] Susie asks why the US Supreme Court is allowing restrictions on transgender troops in the military - is anyone surprised? Next, "male" sex robots are here...but there's something fishy about their marketing.

[Contains explicit content] Susie has an idea that will help you fulfill any New Year's sex resolution: try keeping a private sex diary. Next, revisiting a decade ago, Susie’s annual look at the top sex stories of 2010. And finally, Susie reads a letter from a listener who has a beef with some comments Susie made about women putting off childbirth into their 40s.

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. Also, in New on Audible, A Hanging at Cinder Bottom. This audacious book brings together Charles Portis and the Coen Brothers in a rollicking Appalachian adventure.

[Contains explicit content] Susie finds the hidden history of hotel porn. Next, the latest hotbed of STIs is in rural Missouri. Secrecy and shame will come back to bite you every time. And from the mailbag: How not to share your dildo collection, and a hot tip for online sex.

[Contains explicit content] Susie calls out the winners of her Worst People in the World Contest and asks, "Whatever happened to the super sexy hypocrites?" Corruption has been cuckolded! Next, leadership from dedicated foot fetishists has derailed right-wing attempts at hate-wanking to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's bathtub reflection.

Susie sees not just a sexist double standard in the treatment of congresswoman Katie Hill but a class conflict as well. Next, the Trump administration says Christian adoption agencies may discriminate against LGBTQ couples. That’s not just bad news for queer rights, it’s bad for children as well. New on Audible, Anyi Wang’s Fu Ping explores the interwoven stories of rural immigrants to midcentury Shanghai.

[Contains explicit content] Today's show features two letters from a married couple who want to transform their monogamous relationship into an open marriage. They each sent Susie a letter separately, detailing their concerns and desires. You'll hear why the wife wants more, and then, how the husband is excited but really nervous about going from vanilla to raspberry chocolate pistachio and butter brickle with a cherry on the top. "Can our marriage change this drastically and survive?" Susie has many thoughts and some advice.

[Contains explicit content] Susie reads the love letters of the highly literate. Prepare for some beautiful and, at least in James Joyce's case, downright filthy writing. Then, it's "What's on Audible": The passing of Mary Oliver sent Susie deep into her poetry, which is soaring, present, and knife-sharp.

Susie submits her request to the Phi collection at the Bodleian library, once the only place you could read D. H. Lawrence in Cambridge. Next, porn stashes in the woods. Once a rite of passage, they're one more casualty of the internet.

[Contains explicit content] Susie shares letters from women pleading for an abortion in 1917 and 2018 - and they aren't so different. Next, a note from Betty Dodson's business partner and teaching heir. As gloomy as the news is, a joyous sex positive movement still lives. Then it's "New on Audible": Louise Fitzhugh’s Nobody's Family Is Going to Change is a lost classic and just as acerbic and tender as Harriet the Spy.

[Contains explicit content] Susie looks at two new US Supreme Court cases in which the Trump administration will be arguing that it's perfectly fine to discriminate on the basis of sex. Next, did you think the Middle Ages were all about piety and plague? A Welsh feminist poetess will turn that idea around. And finally, new on Audible: The New Huey P. Newton Reader brings the founder of the Black Panthers to audio for the first time.

[Contains explicit content] New parents are keenly aware that there is something very important missing in their lives: sex. Susie talks about how to find ways to get that part of your relationship back even if the diapers still need changing. Next, Susie reads a story from her mentor, poet Judy Grahn. "The Psychoanalysis of Edward the Dyke" is a tale that Grahn wrote about the problems of being a girl who's really a guy. Then, from the mailbag, a listener writes, "My husband won't let me masturbate." Uh-oh, sounds like a control issue.

Susie has an interview with YouTube celebrity Arielle Scarcella. She’s a funny, sexy lesbian who has made a big splash posting over-the-top videos that have great themes. Some of her titles are Dear Straight Girls, Why Men Really Love Lesbians, Bad in Bed, and 7 Lies Lesbians Tell. Then, in New on Audible, Agorafabulous! Dispatches from My Bedroom, by Sara Benincasa. This wild memoir is one of the funniest and most poignant books ever written about a mental illness.

[Contains explicit content] Susie is glad to hear at least one government entity is taking the threat of incels seriously. Next, LGBTQ+ Instagram accounts integrate history into everyday life. And then, new on Audible, Maxine Gordon's memoir of the late Dexter Gordon, Sophisticated Giant, is a who's who of mid-century black stars and intellectuals.

Susie checks the bookshelf for all the new advice books about sex and relationships. Next, some 1958 advice for landing a husband asks you to exercise your feminine wiles. And, New on Audible, Emily Wilson’s new translation of Homer’s The Odyssey is an absolutely vital journey.

[Contains explicit content] Susie finds that there was a surprising amount of thought that went into the crotch of the Ken doll. Then, new on Audible: in Jia Tolentino's Trick Mirror, the author thinks about the roles the internet, drugs, and sexism play in the lives of the first digital natives.