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Susie is off this week but wants you to enjoy a show from 2005! In this encore edition, Susie's mailbag was just overflowing with great mail, and she answered a few of the choicest letters.

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....

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.

In this excerpt from In Bed with Susie Bright, Susie interviews Yale psychologist Paul Bloom about his fascinating best-selling book How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like. Paul and Susie talk about the pleasures of sex and how we perceive them.

It's an encore presentation of In Bed with Susie Bright this week featuring Susie's tips on "How to Have an Erotic Holiday." Susie's got just the right ingredients for you to get through - and even enjoy - this time of year. Then, Susie peruses the panoply of erotic self-help best selling books (and audiobooks!) and makes her recommendations for what goes into the most helpful types of sex books. Finally, from her Try this at Home mailbag, Susie tries the Fukuoku 9000 fingertip vibrator.

Susie looks at a recent study of jealousy that turned up the same old ground - men get jealous about sexual infidelity and women get upset by emotional infidelity. Sure, it sounds nice and simple, but Susie says the differences aren't just biologically predetermined. Susie also takes a look at an unusual plan to increase the birth rate in Sweden. In her mailbag, Susie revisits her recent dis-invitation to speak in Minnesota and reads an email from a happily married woman who loves the (swinging) lifestyle.

Susie's in Boston this week with erotica and science fiction writer Cecilia Tan, whose books include Telepaths Don't Need Safe Words and Valderet. Cecilia is also the author of the erotic short story The Little Mermaid. Then, in her mailbag, Susie helps a woman who wants her boyfriend to talk dirty to her and another from a blind man who says he's worried he can't please his wife.

There are still more NYC interviews to come, but this week Susie catches her breath and we offer an encore edition of Susie's great San Francisco interview with monologuist Josh Kornbluth.

Josh Kornbluth is the author of Red Diaper Baby (currently being made into a move for the Sundance Channel) and co-creator of the feature length film, Haiku Tunnel. In this warm and especially funny interview, Susie and Josh talk about the sexual life of an office temp, or rather, Josh's sexual life as an office temp. Also, Josh talks about the sexual lessons his communist parents imparted...

This week, Susie makes the connection between physical sports and stripping. Then, Susie laments the closing of the last peep show from New York City's revamped Times Square. She tells the story of a Big Apple trip she made, many years ago, to see strippers in Show World. In her Try This at Home mailbag, Susie answers a letter from a man who's being told he's doing everything wrong in bed.

In 1976, a porn film called Snuff hit the theaters. It was rumored that a woman was killed in the movie and anti-porn feminists roared. This week, Susie is in the studio with porn and exploitation film scholars Eithne Johnson and Eric Schaeffer. Eithne and Eric talk about the history of the snuff film, the role of red-light districts, specifically Boston's "Combat Zone," and Eithne maps out the female porn equivalent to the money shot. In the mailbag, a listener searches for cocoa buttery goodness.

Today's show takes a quick look at why and how sex education has evolved in the United States. Susie reads from an article in Newsweek that featured a story written by Johanna Cornblatt. Going back to the 1800s, we see the same worries about "evil" sex and plans to control the young, just as with today's abstinence-only sex-ed. The article is full of strange and fun historical facts, including warnings about syphilis, prostitutes, the 1960s sexual revolution, and HIV and AIDS.

Susie takes us inside the bizarre world of a "Purity Ball". This is a ceremony in which a teenager pledges to remain a virgin until marriage. These public abstinence vows take place between teenagers and their parents, and rings are exchanged, as in a wedding ceremony. Susie has a problem with the whole idea! Doesn't this seem like a weird, reverse coming-out party?

Sex and Politics have always gone hand in hand. On today's show, Susie looks at the Tea Party's sexual agenda and how it may affect us all. The Tea Party members are ready for battle to make sure that their far-right viewpoint is heard. Oh boy, let's brace ourselves for a return to some old-fashioned values - and we're not talking about being a good Pollyanna; we're talking about making sure Pollyanna doesn't speak up, get out of line, or have a differing opinion.

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.

Today, Susie has a very special interview to share with you. We'll be talking with best-selling author Christopher Ryan about his book Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality. This anthropologic look into myths versus sexual realities inspires a great discussion. Christopher and Susie discuss whether jealousy is an animalistic urge or if it can it be controlled, how far back monogamy goes in our species, and why so many marriages are dysfunctional.

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.

Each week Susie answers a letter from a listener. Today's show puts the spotlight on our "Try This at Home" mailbag, in which a loyal listener writes that she was bothered by a recent show when Susie spoke about the best positions for sex - but only for heterosexuals. What about us lesbians? says our letter writer. Well, Susie has a lot of great advice for everyone, so today, here they are: tips for homosexuals.

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."

It's almost Valentine's Day, and Susie's sending out a big smooch to you. Her motto on this romantic holiday is "Love the One You're With". And for those of you who are single - flirt. If you're in the middle of a breakup, purge. Valentine's Day is for everyone, no matter where your love life currently abides.

A woman sits alone on a train bound for Washington D.C. She's reading Lolita for the erotic writing class she teaches. Soon, a handsome man settles in next to her. As he sleeps, her mind drifts to sexy thoughts of this strong stranger...Susie reads Tsaurah Litsky's erotic story, "Reading Lolita on the 9:25," featured in Best American Erotica 2002, asks you to vote for your favorite erotic stories, and offers advice to a recently divorced woman who's ready to run wild in the streets.