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[Contains explicit content] In this 2005 show, Susie's guest is 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 debate the sexual dilemmas facing women and men these days - everything from dating, marriage, porn, body image, and much, much more. Then, Susie and Ian respond to a mailbag question from a woman who says she feels like her sex life has become one big performance.

[Contains explicit content] In this 2008 show, we have some questions. "Can we ever have too much sex? Can we ever love someone too much?" Susie speaks with author Rachel Resnick about her book Love Junkie: A Memoir. The book points out three red flags that might indicate if someone is a love junkie. Then, from the mailbag: Susie responds to a listener who wants some advice. Can she truly be a good feminist if she also really likes kinky sex? Time to uncover the secrets.

[Contains explicit content] In this 2016 show, Susie talks to Andi Zeisler, author of We Were Feminists Once, about the branding of "consumer feminism". If feminism is whatever makes you happy shopping, is there any meaning left to the word? And then, it's "New on Audible": The Measure of Her Powers: An M.F.K. Fisher Reader - essential listening for sensualists and lovers of a well-turned phrase.

[Contains explicit content] From a 2004 show: Ever wonder what it's like to be a female stand-up comic? Mimi Gonzalez knows. She's in the studio with tales from the front lines. Mimi explains why it's only okay for fat or ugly female comics to talk about sex. She also counsels Susie on how to deal with hecklers, as well the art of delivering a punch line. Plus, you'll hear all about one of Mimi's favorite gigs, when she performed for Gloria Steinem. Then, from the mailbag: Susie has a letter from a bisexual man who says he's ready to date but can't figure out where to start.

[Contains explicit content] In this 2005 show, Susie tells us all about the number-one Christian porn site! Then, we'll hear about some of Susie's favorite sex toys, available on Amazon.com. Finally, from the mailbag, a listener tells Susie that he loves the show, but wishes she would leave out discussions of religion and politics. What do you think?

[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 2016 show, Susie talks to Greg Cope White about his memoir The Pink Marine. Long before "DADT" (don't ask, don't tell) a friend invited him to sign up for the Marine Corps summer boot camp, but all Greg heard was "summer" and "camp". Semper fi!

[Contains explicit content] In this a 2017 show, Susie introduces four new editions of Charles Bukowski’s short fiction and memoirs to Audible. The patron saint of barflies and brawlers with tender souls wrote prolifically; each sentence a gem.

[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] In this 2004 show, Susie's guest is Rachel Kramer Bussel, who shares her love for spanking, her thoughts on femme lesbians hooking up with other femme lesbians, and the thrill of Monica Lewinsky. Some of Rachel's books include Up All Night: Adventures in Lesbian Sex, Glamour Girls: Femme/Femme Erotica, and Naughty Spanking Stories from A to Z. Then, from the mailbag: Susie hears from some ardent defenders of Suicide Girls.

[Contains explicit content] In this 2015 episode, 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, Love Lesbians; Why Men REALLY Love Lesbians!; You're Bad in Bed If…; and 7 Lies Lesbians Tell. Susie and Arielle talk all about spoofing lesbian culture. Susie thinks these videos are pee-your-pants funny, goofy, and truthful.

[Contains explicit content] In this 2016 show, Susie talks to sex educator and author Cory Silverberg about his book for kids, Sex Is a Funny Word - the biggest lifesaver a parent ever had in the Sex Talk Dept. Next: Why would anyone "love" premature ejaculation? And finally, it's "New on Audible": To celebrate the Irish, we take a listen to Dublin Noir: The Celtic Tiger vs. The Ugly American. Fire up the peat and settle in with a Guinness.

[Contains explicit content] In this 2015 show, Susie talks with UK novelist and journalist Stephanie Theobald, who was then working on a new book about what she calls the last taboo: masturbation. Theobald, who has been described as "one of London’s most celebrated literary lesbians", writes about sex, sexual identity, and art. Get ready for a steamy conversation filled with travels and fantasies of long-haul truckers!

[Contains explicit content] From a 2015 show Susie asks...what happens when your partner is in the mood and you’re not? It’s called maintenance sex. Susie reads an article by Tracy Moore from jezebel.com that gives some how-to tips for doing what many call “duty sex”. Next, we hear all about the first erotic computer game.

[Contains explicit content] In this 2014 show Susie speaks with legendary author Walter Mosley, perhaps best known for his bestselling mystery series featuring Easy Rawlins. His book Debbie Doesn't Do It Anymore is about a woman who's had it with the porn industry, though. Susie asks Walter how he researched this book. They also discuss exploitation, Black identity, sex work, writing for Hollywood, "sexestential" novels, and how to stay young as you get old. Then, from the mailbag, Susie has a letter from a virgin.

From a 2014 show, Susie has an interview with Eric Schaefer, author of Sex Scene: Media and the Sexual Revolution. Professor Schaefer teaches at Emerson College in the Visual and Media Arts Department. His new book looks at exploitation and sexploitation within films, tabloids, novels, and audio recordings. Chapter headings include "Wet Dreams", "Porn Goes to College", "Beefcake to Hardcore", and "33 1/3 Sexual Revolutions per Minute", to name a few. Susie and Eric discuss the origins of X rating, Jane Fonda’s movie orgasms, Swedish erotica, Russ Meyer’s nudies, and more.

[Contains explicit content] Susie interviews popular porn star Asa Akira in this show from 2014. Asa has been working in the adult entertainment business for six years, appearing in over 400 adult films and accruing many awards. She’s won for best anal scene, best double penetration scene, and best all-girl three-way sex scene at the AVN award show. She’s also been named best porn star of the year. Susie and Asa talk about how to stay healthy in the business, how hot being dominated can be, and how to write smutty haikus.

[Contains explicit content] In today's show, from 2014, Susie is totally enamored by The Honest Courtesan, a blog written by guest Maggie McNeil. Susie asks Maggie how she got started in the profession and why she finally gave it up. In the candid conversation, Maggie describes working in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. And Susie wants to know what the biggest myth is about prostitutes. Then, from the mailbag, Susie hears from a listener in England. He asks, "How can I get around the porn filters that David Cameron and company placed on the entire UK internet?"

[Contains explicit content] In today's show, from 2013, Susie has a provocative interview with Jesse Bering, author of Perv: The Sexual Deviant in All of Us. His book takes a candid look at why we all have some perversion - and explains why being sexually deviant isn't as bad as we think. Susie and Jesse discuss the science behind sexuality, some famous and historically significant people who were outliers, and the difference between safe and harmful kink.

In today's show, from 2013, Susie speaks with Molly Weatherfield, author of the classic S&M novel Carrie's Story. The book is regarded as one of the finest erotic novels ever written - smart, devastatingly sexy, and at times, shocking. Susie wanted to find out all the details that went into crafting this explicit, steaming story. Susie and Molly also discuss fetish sex, fantasy, Regency romance, and BDSM.