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We'll be asking Kate Muir about Everything You Need to Know About the Pill (But Were too Afraid to Ask), debunking myths, discovering why women are often given the wrong advice, and the prospects of a male pill. Muir worked for seven years as chief film critic for The Times before turning more towards investigative journalism. She has written three novels but her more recent works have looked at the hormonal issues that women face, often needlessly. She has produced documentaries on the menopause, as well as becoming an expert public speaker.

[Contains explicit content] Susie has an interview from 2008 with Elizabeth Pisani, author of The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels and the Business of AIDS. Susie and Pisani discuss government bamboozling of the public about the disease. They also consider if the number of sexual partners one has makes contracting AIDS inevitable. And what about condoms? Are sexual workers in countries that require condoms changing attitudes, because using them decreases the disease?

[Contains explicit content] Here at In Bed if someone describes you as having "a dirty mind", we call that a compliment. Susie's guest today, author Nicholson Baker, has been defined that way and in many more. The New York Times called him the "mad scientist of smut". Susie and Nicholson discuss his steamy book House of Holes - a book of raunch, filled with fantasy and wild pleasures. Among the outrageous scenes: what happens when want to exchange your right arm for a gigantic penis.