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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.

Susie Bright is the first and reigning queen of contemporary erotica. In How to Write a Dirty Story she reveals her tricks of the trade and shows you how to heat up sex scenes in everything from traditional novels and romances to science fiction and humor. Easing the aspiring writer into the creative process, she tells you how to write the steamy plots and sensual characters that publishers and readers (and listeners) are looking for.

Suzy is going to blow your mind this Christmas as she reveals the real origins of the holiday. Santa likes sex and drugs and Rock and Roll!

An alarming amount of deaths in the gay porn industry has Susie wondering what's going on. Today, Susie reads from a recent article in XBiz by Dan Cameron entitled "Searching for Answers". Although an X-rated gay-movie career can magnify the pressure its male stars are placed under, there have never been so many suicides as in the past 17 months. Susie looks at the role inadequate health care has played in the despair and what the industry needs to do to help these troubled souls.

After Andrea Dworkin, the famous feminist philosopher and activist, passed away, her chief critic, Susie Bright, who many perceived as Dworkin's opposite, published a stirring obituary and series of essays in which she described the ways that Dworkin was a catalyst for the sex-positive movement in contemporary feminism.

They thought she'd be easy. They thought wrong. It all began with the phone call asking former porn star Angel Dare to do one more movie. Before she knew it, she’d been shot and left for dead in the trunk of a car. But Angel is a survivor. And that means she’ll get to the bottom of what’s been done to her, even if she has to leave a trail of bodies along the way….

Susie Bright interviews Jillian Lauren, author of Some Girls: My Life in a Harem. Lauren talks about her incredible real-life experience “auditioning” for the harem of Prince Jefri of Brunei.

Recently, Susie lectured at the University of Wisconsin, in spite of protests from conservative lawmakers. In this week's Front Page, Susie reads a letter to the University of Wisconsin chancellor from State Representative Steve Nash, declaring "Susie Bright - a menace." In her Media Whore department, Susie dreams of getting in on with rap bad-boy Eminem. And, in this week's, Try This at Home mailbag, Susie answers a poignant letter from a woman who gets mistaken for a boy.

This beautifully produced book contains the landmark work of the most influential lesbian photographers in the world, including Morgan Gwenwald, Della Grace, Diana Blok, Tee Corrine, Jill Posener, and Honey Lee Cottrell. Beyond the impact of the individual photographers, Bright writes about the themes that have fueled lesbian photography, including the feminist approach to the body and the lesbian relationship to popular culture.

Susie Bright, “The Pauline Kael of Porn” (SF Chronicle), rips open the history of erotic cinema before the internet— from the Golden Age of lavish 35mm hardcore, to the video-inspired “Porno Spring”, initiated by none other than punk, feminist, and lesbian video-makers.

Today, Susie breaks open two controversial topics: incest - and justice. She begins with the most provocative child-abuse accusation to enter the public's awareness in years - Dylan Farrow vs. Woody Allen - and ends with an argument for justice that is ageless. Susie ponders the question of what we are supposed to think when celebrities take to the press about their family abuse. Is it about money? Is it about immortality? Or is it just more of the screwed-up lives that Hollywood produces so effortlessly?

Susie's guest is Veronica Vera, founder and dean of "Miss Vera's Finishing School for Boys Who Want to be Girls" and the author of Miss Vera's Cross-Dress for Success. Susie met Miss Vera years ago and Susie's first glimpse into Miss Vera's copious collection of lacy underthings was a true introduction to Miss V's dedication to all things womanly. At her cross-dressing academy, men (and some women) sign up for classes to learn the fine arts of being a woman.

Susie is outraged to hear that a middle school in Illinois has banned hugging, and she reviews a new book, 101 Nights of Grrreat Sex. She tried some of the secret seductions offered to perk up your sex life, and after the first game, her partner gave this book a big thumbs up.

The Edge of the Bed: Cyborgasm 2 is a collection of erotic stories so real, you can practically feel it. Contributors include sexperts Susie Bright and Carol Queen!

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.

Susie reads from an erotic fable that will surely keep us all in the holiday spirit. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Olen Butler has written a tale about what happens when a husband is reincarnated into a parrot and his wife goes shopping for a Pretty Polly.

The Conservative Political Action Conference, known as CPAC, is attended by many staunch political types who, it turns out, are also looking for some kinky one-night stands. After listening to fiery speeches from favorite conservatives on the convention floor, it seems the next most popular activity is finding anonymous gay sex. Susie reads from some Craigslist ads, and boy-oh-boy there was some sinning happening at the recent CPAC.

[Contains explicit content] In today's show, from 2013, Susie has a provocative interview with Jesse Bering, author of Perv: The Sexual Deviant in All of Us. His book takes a candid look at why we all have some perversion - and explains why being sexually deviant isn't as bad as we think. Susie and Jesse discuss the science behind sexuality, some famous and historically significant people who were outliers, and the difference between safe and harmful kink.  

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.

Pulitzer Prize-winner Jane Smiley details a beautiful erotic interlude in an otherwise sordid real estate deal; Mary Gaitskill celebrates the unexpected ardor of one middle-aged couple; Steve Almond reminisces about the best one-man/three-girl Ecstasy party ever; Nelson George recounts the erotic escapades that befall a young man who accompanies a celebrity athlete when he picks up a gaggle of girls; and Carol Queen explores the joys of making love with summer fruit.