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It's holiday time and Susie has two things on her mind. First, she's raving about the new movie Kinsey, the story of 20th-century sex researcher Alfred Kinsey. Susie says Kinsey's efforts to scientifically study sex are still the most extensive ever done and this new movie offers a glimpse at the moral and social objections his research raised at the time. Then, speaking of movies and holidays, Susie has her short list of favorite holiday movies.

The bulk of this week's show is dedicated to a recent article that recently appeared in the New York Times called "Long After Kinsey, Only the Brave Study Sex" by Benedict Carey. Carey's article outlines why so much of sex research in the U.S. is still kept completely covert or remains unfunded. Then, Susie wants to share a new favorite website: www.liegirls.com. In her mailbag, Susie hears from a 65-year-old man who is wondering about his shoe fetish.

Susie's guest this week is former Penthouse editor, Lavada Nahon. Lavada reveals the truth behind some of the magazine's best-known columns, including Penthouse Letters. She also talks about some of her own sexual and personal awakenings while at Penthouse, including a sex scandal that hit a bit too close to home. Susie and Lavada worked together on an erotic collection called Between the Sheets, which is available at audible.com®.

Susie talks with former porn star turned sex-positive CEO Candida Royalle. Candida is the founder and CEO of Femme Productions (www.royalle.com). Candida has designed her own line of vibrators, and Susie is more than willing to give them a try! Susie and Candida also talk about how porn stars have changed and how one goes about casting couples in porn who have chemistry. Then, in her mailbag, Susie helps a woman to fulfill her husband's fantasy for a three-way.

Susie this week says "Hats Off!" and a lot more to a Floridian whose bid for Congress might be stymied by his previous occupation as a male stripper. Then, Susie tries on the Fukuoku 9000, a small finger vibrator and ends up longing for something with a little more juice. In her Try this at Home mailbag, Susie answers a letter from a woman who hates giving blow jobs and Susie offers general advice to anyone who thinks they have to do something they don't like in bed.

Susie's just read the controversial book, Harmful to Minors by Judith Levine. Taking Levine's cue, Susie offers her six tips to help your children develop positive, sexual images of themselves. Then, in the second part of her interview with Staci Haines, the author of A Survivor's Guide to Sex, Staci talks about confronting her father and her organization, Generation Five. In her mailbag, Susie offers tips to a woman who wants to become the exhibitionist her husband desires.

Settle in for Susie's Year in Sex, Part 2. Susie takes stock of her favorite and least favorite trends in 2001's erotica and erotic photography books. In erotica, Susie's favorite is when mainstream authors put sex back in their stories and their characters' lives. She doesn't like the mainstreaming or "watering down" of erotica. Susie asks, "How Safe is Your Daughter" and, in her Try This at Home Mailbag, Susie answers a man who feels guilty about spending money on prostitutes.

Susie recently received her pre-press edition of Best American Erotica 2002, the annual series Susie edits. She whets your appetite this week by reading an extended segment of Ernie Conrick's sexy and clever satire of professional tennis, called "Backhand" - a petulant young blond tennis player named Anna discovers new things about sex and her game. Also, it's holiday time and Susie's got her picks for this season's best sex toys. Susie answers a question from a man who's engaged to the wrong woman.

Susie announces her new blog (http://susiebright.blogs.com) where you can get her latest musings on sex, politics, sewing, and more. Then, it's off to a triple-X knife store in Tennessee that is ruffling some feathers. And, in the mailbag, a listener's fisting story reminds Susie of a workshop she gave years ago.

Susie talks this week with writer, spoken work performance artist, former go-go dancer, and horse enthusiast Maggie Estep. As a child, Maggie's nomadic horse-training parents moved her from stable to stable in France and the U.S. While she says she doesn't get the "girls and horses" sex stuff, horses are becoming more and more prominent in her novels. Maggie Estep's latest novel is called Hex. In the mailbag, a listener offers his "Rules for Care of the Heart [and Self-Esteem] During Anonymous Sex."

This week, Susie's talks with erotica writer Tsaurah Litzky. In Susie's Best American Erotica series, Tsaurah is one of the most prolific and popular authors. Tsaurah tells Susie how a nice Jewish girl from Canarsie discovered her sexual appetite and about how she gets her writing students to loosen up and write about s-e-x. In the mailbag, Susie offers a listener specific tips for successful online dating.

It's not summer anymore but Susie's recently back from her summer vacation. Susie learned a little bit more about porn on the road and the pleasure of a good bathtub. And, while she was on vacation, Susie got a tip to buy the Nimbus 2000 - the children's toy that has hit the sex toy top ten. In her mailbag, Susie offers advice to a man who is worried that his brother is getting hosed by his swinging no-good wife. Don't forget, you can send your confidential sex questions and feedback to susie@audible.com.

Get a first-hand account of the world of porn with director/screenwriter Antonio Passolini, a.k.a. Tony Lovett. Tony's the man behind the best selling films The Ozporns, Bliss, and Cafe Flesh 2.

Don't miss Part 2 of this interview.

Susie celebrates show number 69 this week and interviews monologuist Josh Kornbluth. Josh is the author of Red Diaper Baby and of the feature length film, Haiku Tunnel. Susie and Josh talk about the sexual life of an office temp. Also, Josh talks about the sexual lessons his communist parents imparted and what he hopes to correct as he's raising his own child. In her Try This at Home mailbag, Susie offers advice on how to find love using using Internet personals.

This week Susie answers one of those long-standing questions: Why isn't your company paying for your pornography? Then, she reads one of the most interesting takes on Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ you are likely to hear this year. It's Michael Bronski's recent article from The Boston Phoenix called "Our Jesus, Ourselves" which explores just how sexy Jesus really is. In the mailbag, Susie offers some tips to a man who is looking for a Brazilian ass waxing.

Susie's guest this week 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. Rachel's books include The Lesbian Sex Book, 2nd edition, Up All Night: Adventures in Lesbian Sex, and the forthcoming Glamour Girls: Femme/Femme Erotica, Naughty Spanking Stories from A to Z, and A Spanking Good Time: Essays on Spanking and Being Spanked.

Susie's in the studio with Jack Murnighan, the former editor in chief of Nerve.com and the editor of The Naughty Bits and the soon-to-be-released Classic Nasty. Susie proves that Jack's one of the only people who knows as much erotica trivia as she does by quizzing him on the true erotic sensibilities of some of the best-known (and banned) writers. In the mailbag, Susie answers a letter from a man who wonders why some guys are just obsessed with women's butts.

Please note: Susie is away this week conducting interviews in NYC for future episodes of In Bed with Susie Bright. In the meantime, we offer you this program from her archives.
Scanning the recent sex news, Susie finds "family-friendly" editions of Titanic are hitting the video store shelves. Then, Susie invites one of her favorite sex radicals into the studio this week for the first of a two-part interview. Staci Haines is the author of A Survivor's Guide to Sex: How to Have a Great Sex Life after Sexual Abuse. In a warm and facinating dicussion, Susie talks with...

It's Susie's second anniversary show! Susie's terrific Los Angeles interview series kicks off with Jill Soloway, one of the writers and producers of HBO's hit series Six Feet Under. Even if you've never seen the show, the behind-the-scenes story of how the characters are developed is fascinating.

Susie thinks back fondly to her early viewings of the Joy of Sex. But, a recent New York Times interview with author Alex Comfort's son and a recent reissue of the 1972 mega-best seller have Susie taking a second look at the old erotic war horse. And, at last, In Bed with Susie Bright listeners, you'll get an earful of a Susie conspiracy theory (hint: think breasts vs. vaginas). In the Try This at Home mailbag, Susie helps a man learn to dominate and woman learn to say "No."