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Susie Bright, founder of Best American Erotica, presents a classic, taboo-breaking collection of men’s erotic fiction - featuring the most unrepentant gay literary heroes of our generation. Legendary writers like John Preston, Samuel Delany, Steven Saylor/Aaron Travis, Lars Eighner, Dennis Cooper - who can imagine men’s intimate and transgressive lives without them?

In today's show, Susie reads a story from a book that's hot off the presses: The Feminist Porn Book: The Politics of Producing Pleasure. Susie and more than a dozen other writers contributed to this volume; Susie's chapter is entitled "The Birth of the Blue Movie Critic". In it, she recalls her experience as a very young woman who had the chance to review porn films as the first movie critic for X-rated cinema. She tells us all about visiting porn movie houses and being the only woman there - let alone the only person not having sex while watching the movie!

Some of the smartest erotic stories in the world just happen to be written by lesbians, women who changed the face of erotic lit. Susie Bright presents a collection of lesbian sex lives that speak fearlessly, through every taboo, without any apologies. Writers like Dorothy Allison, Lisa Montanarelli, Greta Christina, and Peggy Munson name names, get as close to any woman as they dare, and relish every deep stroke of their erotic pens….

Susie Bright, “The Pauline Kael of Porn” (SF Chronicle), rips open the history of erotic cinema before the internet— from the Golden Age of lavish 35mm hardcore, to the video-inspired “Porno Spring”, initiated by none other than punk, feminist, and lesbian video-makers.

In today show, we take a look at autofellatio. Writer Jesse Bering's article in Slate ("So Close, and Yet So Far Away: The contorted history of autofellatio") has Susie wondering what this kind of acrobatic self-pleasure would feel like….

Welcome to the "girl-talk" you thought you'd never hear in public! Susie (52) and Aretha Bright (19) are a mother/daughter team of columnists from Jezebel.com, whose readers flooded them with explicit dilemmas about sexual pleasures and disasters, body issues, dating, relationships, and young marriage. If you want cutting-edge sex advice that goes beyond pregnancy-and-disease-control - if you’re ready to hear family conversations about sex that are real and refreshing this is the book for you.

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.

First off.... What's a spider gag? Susie has a new sex toy to tell you about, and oh is it wonderfully naughty! Susie found out about this new fun play-toy from a listener who has a sex blog called isabellalucky. Our sexy writer wields a wicked pen to tell all about her personal pleasures. Susie loves it, and you'll hear all about the spider gag - think bondage with metal and straps holding your mouth wide open. It's all the rage on Amazon; look it up and see what everyone is talking about.

Susie's guest this week 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, and much, much more. Then, Susie and Ian tackle a mailbag question from a woman who says she feels like her sex life is just one big performance.

[Contains explicit content] Susie answers a letter from a listener who wants to know the best sex positions for homosexuals. Strap-on cocks, hand-held dildos, anal sex, and more are discussed. Then, Susie takes a look at a sexual survey she gathered from an interesting group of teenagers.

[Contains explicit content] It's the second part of Susie's rare interview with porn star Jamie Gillis from 2007. Jamie talks about how his family supported his work and what porn stars know about getting themselves off that other people don't. Then, from the mailbag, Susie is admonished by a listener whose son has autism and who wonders how she can support her son's sexuality.

The Internet site dailydot featured a recent article with the headline, "Sex-positive female masturbation app rejected from App Store". This caught Susie's attention big-time. While the store offers many other apps that could be considered offensive, Susie wonders what's so bad about this game called Happy PlayTime, in which a cartoon vulva teaches women how to get comfortable with their clitorises. Seems like outright, blatant sexism.

Susie has a provocative interview with author Jesse Bering, whose latest book is called Perv: The Sexual Deviant in All of Us. His book takes a candid look at why we all have some perversion in us and says that being sexually deviant isn't really as bad as we think. Then, in the mailbag, Susie gets a letter from a new listener. He says: "My wife is certain my interest in anal sex makes me gay - now what can I do?"

Susie is outraged about the Steubenville, Ohio, rape case - two boys raped a drunk and unconscious 16-year-old girl at a party while other partygoers tweeted and Instagrammed photos of the attack. Susie reached out to Traci Lords - the actress and musician who gained notoriety as a teenage porn star - to get the Stubenville natives' reaction to the rape. And her thoughts about it are chilling.

In our ongoing "Tell Me Your Sex Story" segment, we meet a listener who became famous when she went head-to-head against a cantankerous Tea Party Republican. It was Melissa, a Post Office employee who kept her cool as Congressman Joe Walsh went berserk at a local "meet and greet". (Check it out on YouTube.) Susie and Melissa talk about sexual politics, government corruption, and just what happens to mail carriers when the homeowner wants more than just letters delivered.

This week, Susie responds to her overflowing mailbag of listeners' questions. Usually, we tackle one question per show, but today we're playing catch up as we hear from five people looking for advice from Susie. The topics vary from female ejaculation and vaginal health to how getting a massage can lead to getting it on.

If you can only have one audiobook of erotica on your listening device, this is it. From Susie Bright, the "grand dame" of erotica and the editor of The Best American Erotica series, comes this compelling collection, featuring 40 of the best and most relished contemporary erotic short stories to date.

Get ready for a roller-coaster ride for your senses as Harriet Lerner, Mollie Katzen, and Susie Bright unleash their ideas about America's favorite taboos in Food, Sex, and Relationships. With combined book sales of over seven million copies, these three best-selling writers are at the height of their powers as they cast light in the shadowy corners of the human mind.

[Contains explicit content] Susie looks at the long reach of youthful sexual assault. Then, from the mailbag: Do the house rules change when your kid's friend comes out as trans?

[Contains explicit content] Susie has a show from 2008 for you to enjoy. The show starts with a shocking idea: a married couple decides to have sex every night for a year! Susie reveals the details behind a very special birthday gift. Next, Susie delves into the world of chemical engineering to find out what makes Hell tick. That's right, as all of us heathens want to know, what exactly is Hell made of - and what are we in for? Finally, from the mailbag, Susie responds to a letter from a lesbian fisting devotee who gets reduced to tears by a demon cup.