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On this week's In Bed, Susie talks to silent-movie guru Laura Horak, who critiqued hundreds of women actors cross-dressing in the golden age - and came to surprising conclusions and about what it means to gender-savvy audiences today. Then, it's "New on Audible". Memphis Noir, is a wet, dirty, and sexy exploration of crime and class in the Mississippi Delta.

What do you get when you combine ball-busting feminists, the patriarchy, and a sexy Halloween? The scariest haunting of them all! Susie went to the best haunted-house ever, featuring gender-queer apparitions, ball-busting butchers, riot ghouls, and radical vampiric grannies. The show is the brainchild of artists Deirdre Logue and Allyson Mitchell, who wanted to "pervert, not convert" all the sinners who love scary, nightmarish fun.

[Contains explicit content] Susie brings you the first of a two-part interview with author Jillian Lauren, whose book Some Girls - My Life in a Harem took the media by storm. Who knew that the family of the sultan of Brunei still hosted exotic households of 40 women and lived the lifestyle of a prince from Arabian Nights?

A man was told by his doctor that he has idiopathic fibrosis and that he has 100 orgasms left before his penis stops working. What would you do in his shoes? Susie found this story at BroBible.com and has some compassionate advice for him. There are other great ways to get off without using his meat hammer, for example; how about catching up on some reading? Susie suggests a great book entitled Anal Pleasure and Health.

Susie starts off today's show with a remembrance of Helen Gurley Brown. Back in the 1960s, Brown, ahead of her time, offered up the idea that single women liked sex and should have a lot of it. She went on to become the editor of Cosmopolitan, where she was the first to bring titillating images and headlines to women's magazine covers. Susie plays a radio interview of Brown as she talks with conservative talk-show host Joe Pyne.

Teenagers are having less sex these days, and teen pregnancy is down. This all sounds pretty good, right? Susie begs to differ and looks at the real reasons behind the statistics. A recent article by Amy T. Schalet in The New York Times got Susie thinking about what's changed for boys. What role has religion, abstinence-based sex education, and Internet pornography played in boys wanting love, not just sex?

On this week's In Bed, Susie asks why the New York Times wants to rewrite Soul on Ice - but no one wants to address the Great White Cuckolding. Next, from the mailbag, is it "cheating" if someone in a polyamorous relationship forgets to mention they "stepped out"?

Today's show will reveal everything you ever wanted to know about the illustrious G-spot. Over the years, Susie has written books, interviewed authors, and answered many listener questions about just what the female G-spot is. She's compiled many of her best segments on squirting, masturbating, and how to find the G-spot from five years of In Bed discussions. So sit back and relax if you can, because this 80-minute special is bound to excite and will certainly get you hot. Feel free to take notes!

Susie finds herself in the magazine she's always dreamed of.... Next, straight girls have fewer orgasms than anyone else on earth - and why that's funny, tragic, and infuriating. And finally, from the mailbag: A listener asks why all the abortion arguments focus on life and death situations and not elective abortions.

On this week's In Bed, Susie remembers the outrageous side of Joani Blank, founder of Good Vibrations, sex educator, and Susie's first "boss" in the sex and publishing business. Next, Sunny Leone is a former porn mega-star - you've heard that before. But what you don't know is that she left American porn and is now the biggest fan hit ever - in G-rated Bollywood!

On this week's In Bed, Susie talks to Andi Zeisler, author of We Were Feminists, Once, about the branding of "consumer feminism". If feminism is whatever makes you happy while shopping, is there any meaning left in the world?

On this week's In Bed, Susie and professor Amy Adele Hasinoff discuss her book Sexting Panic. What does it mean when high school students are being sentenced to life in sex offender hell because their privacy was ripped open by the morality police?

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.

Susie is off but wants you to enjoy an episode from 2011. Today's show is all about joysticks for Jacks and Jills. Susie interviews video gamer and erotic author Shanna Germain, who notes that many gamers are regular people - including plenty of female devotees. Shanna and Susie talk about how sex finds its way into some popular programs and why it is considered a game "reward". And are there queer and bisexually themed games? This discussion goes way beyond Lara Croft!

What happens when your partner is in the mood and you're not? It's called maintenance sex, and it's been making headlines lately. Susie reads from a Jezebel.com article by Tracy Moore that gives some how-to tips for doing what many call "duty sex". Actress Amy Poehler does it, sex educator Dan Savage does it, and Susie has a lot to say about why maintenance sex is so controversial.

We're talking prostate massage and prostate milking today. What? You don't know about this? It's sometimes done by doctors for medical reasons, but it can also be a sexy, fun adventure at home for your pleasure - and health, too. Susie goes into the details about just how to get "milk" from a massage down there. Think warm massage oil and soft tender caresses in just the right gentle area… and voila: unstoppable delight that's good for you!

Susie begins today's show by reading a story written by EcoWhore. This real-life sex worker lives in the wilderness and uses her van as her boudoir. She was an underaged prostitute, and this tale is called "Exploitation". Next, monogamy is up for debate. Fellow sexpert Dan Savage is in the news for his view that non-monogamy can help save marriages. Susie says hooray! But it seems that many other people disagree....

Susie talks with Victorian-age sexuality historian Professor Sharon Marcus. Susie asks why today's society is more prudish than the high-laced-collar Victorians'. Marcus has a new book, Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England. Susie and Sharon discuss whether lesbian sex was first born within the good-girl Victorian friendships.

Susie is ready to scream! A recent study once again shows that women are not reaching orgasm nearly as often as men. It's not fair! Susie looks at the role of oral sex in this unfortunate gap between men's and women's pleasure. Seems like there is a lot more giving head and less eating pussy happening these days.

In The Best American Erotica 2002, Maggie Estep relates the surprising sexual happenings in a detox clinic, Francesca Lia Block explores the aquatic fantasies haunting a surfer, and Ernie Conrick introduces a tennis star and sex symbol who surrenders to an unusual coach. In these 23 stories you will also find cutting-edge work from other luminaries and from the Internet, where the next wave of erotica has matured into some of the most enticing writing around.