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Susie celebrated the very start of 2007 by putting winning a wet T-shirt contest: her first! Then, when Susie looks back on 2006, she says one of the biggest sex stories was Britney Spears flashing herself for the world to see. Susie says the whole phenomenon is remarkable, but mostly because people don't even know, or want to know, what they're looking at. Then, in the mailbag, Susie offers some advice to a woman who worries her boyfriend will be grossed out when he goes down on her.

Susie's news item this week is from Spotsylvania, Virginia where the sheriff recently announced his detectives could no longer receive sexual services on the job. Then, it's an expanded mailbag with two letters. The first is from a woman whose sex life is drying up just three months into a new relationship. The second letter is from a young woman who wonders if she really is as bisexual as she feels and why are all of her friends acting grossed out by anal sex.

[Contains explicit content] Susie wants to share a special show from 2004, with her special guest, her dad. In his second appearance on In Bed, linguist Bill Bright talks about his book Native American Place Names in the United States. He explains why you shouldn't call either a Native American woman or a mountain top "squaw" and gives the fascinating secret sex history of many common place names. Then, in her mailbag, Susie explains the giggles and guffaws of tickling fetishes.

[Contains explicit content] Susie has an inmate conversation with author Juan F. Thompson, son of gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson. Susie was a friend of Hunter's. Juan was the one person Hunter trusted completely. They discuss the nitty-gritty of Hunter's writing struggles, his sexual point of view, what being a man in full meant to him, and living up to a mythic, impossible reputation.

[Contains explicit content] Susie starts off by recalling the glory days of Good Vibrations, the revolutionary women's vibrator store. Next, an interview from 2007 with legendary women's masturbation teacher and author Betty Dodson. Susie and Betty discuss the G-Spot, intergenerational sex, and what it was like when Mom asked her about her clitoris. Then, Susie reads a letter from a young woman who describes her kinky road to coming of age.

[Contains explicit content] Susie offers another listen to an interview from 2015 with author Shulem Deen. In All Who Do Not Return, he describes abandoning an Hasidic cult where, on his wedding night, he knew how to broker a real-estate deal in ancient Babylon - but didn’t know the fundamental basics of how babies get made.

[Contains explicit content] Susie finds Victorian love in the form of a Sapphic literary couple and their successful masculine nom de plume.

[Contains explicit content] Susie finds the most epic tweet thread of all time - and recalls her days running around San Francisco (and building a groundbreaking magazine) with strippers and prostitutes.

[Contains explicit content] Susie finds that the phrase "use it or lose it", like many clichés, is literally true. Women who don't have sex or masturbate enter menopause earlier. Next, a deaf man sues PornHub for not offering captioning on his preferred videos. And from the mailbag: the boyfriend who jerks off every night next to his girlfriend.

[Contains explicit content] Susie shares her memories of publishing giant Sonny Mehta and what his passing means for the culture of letters. Next, Twitter's "Nihilist Arby's" comes to life when a Missouri church elder tries to pay for sex with an Arby's gift card.

[Contains explicit content] Susie presents the annual Golden Duke Awards - the cream of the crop of political scandals in a year that was beyond full of choices. And then, new on Audible: editors Johanna Fateman's and Amy Scholder's collection, Last Days at Hot Slit: The Radical Feminism of Andrea Dworkin, revises the writing of the woman who, if it wasn’t for her, none of us would be here - if only to argue.

[Contains explicit content] Susie reads the letters of those who were sexually frustrated, ignorant, or full of braggadocio from a hundred years ago. Next, all about the last gay bar in the Tenderloin, once the gay center of San Francisco. And finally, Bernice L. McFadden's Praise Song for the Butterflies explores modern-day servitude and healing.

[Contains explicit content] Susie finds unsurprising new trends in porn for millennials. Next, the rise of self-driving cars can only mean one thing - more sex in cars. And finally, it's "New on Audible": Christopher Moore's Noir is genre-fluid fun.

[Contains explicit content] Susie explains what's behind the revenge porn videos in a UK strip club. Next, are women going off the pill in large numbers, just as they're about to lose abortion rights? And then, new on Audible: James Herlihy's Midnight Cowboy is so much more than the movie you remember.

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.

Susie wants to know why middle-distance runner Caster Semenya gets the International Association of Athletics Federations' panties in such a knot. Next, boobs in sports have been considered a liability for so long that maybe it's time to celebrate the bounce. After all, our greatest athlete, Serena Williams, has a bona fide rack. And finally, it's "New on Audible": Kate McKinnon and Emily Lynne's Heads Will Roll ushers in a new era of audio comedy.

[Contains explicit content] Susie explains why the US women's national soccer team is after more than equality. Next, what sets E. Jean Carroll's accusation against the president apart. And then, what's on Audible: Our newly appointed United States Poet Laureate Joy Harjo's Crazy Brave: A Memoir - a Bright List classic.

Susie says goodbye to Paul Krassner, founder of the Yippie Party, Merry Prankster, Chicago 7 Witness on Acid, founder of The Realist, pioneer of the underground abortion network when such operations were illegal, and mensch. Next, Jeffrey Epstein may have committed suicide, but the doubt we carry says a lot about why the justice system is so much worse than any conspiracy theory going.

[Contains explicit content] Susie takes a look at the latest sex scandal in the Southern Baptist church - and why our institutions are so prone to abuse. Next: The 1834 church wedding of a butch gentlewoman and a neighboring heiress. Then, it's "What's on Audible". One last valentine: Susie's Sexy Stories.

Susie shares her 1989 Fresh Air interview with Terry Gross. The sex wars were raging, and Susie was fully armed. Next, Australia is proposing facial recognition software to confirm the age of porn consumers. What could possibly go wrong? And then, new on Audible, Karen Tongson’s Why Karen Carpenter Matters tells the story of what the Carpenters' light and darkness meant to the author as a queer Filipinx in Manila.