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A young soldier, wounded by a bomb blast in Afghanistan, will soon be the first recipient of a penis transplant. Missing limbs are common because of war, but genital damage is a "hidden wound". If this operation is successful, many more veterans will receive new genitals. Susie reads from a New York Times article by Denise Grady, who reports that this is intended only for military vets. But Susie wonders when doctors will offer this kind of operation to transgender people.

A listener asks Susie for some advice on how to find great sex workers in Thailand. The catch is she's looking for upscale professionals and doesn't mind spending the money to find the right kink. Susie loves responding to our "Try This at Home" mailbag, and has many ideas on how to have the best sexy time while traveling abroad.

Susie starts today's show with another look at a goofy Christian leader who thought it was okay to publicly condemn gays but secretly have sex with a young boy. Family Research Council co-founder George Rekers asked a male prostitute from Rentboy.com to rub him in an interesting way that seems to go against the anti-gay rhetoric he preaches.

Susie says she's being driven crazy by a news story that says any type of sex can harm teens emotionally. Susie says this is just another way of frightening teens and their parents away from having realistic conversations about intimacy and the inherent risks of trusting and loving others. Then, will your dildo kill you? Still in the sex is scary corner, Susie says she's finally ready to talk about the dangerous chemicals in some plastic sex toys. And, in the mailbag, a man responds to Susie's sex survey.

Susie is ready to whet your appetite for the 10th anniversary of Best American Erotica. Susie talks with horror writer John Skipp about his marriage to porn starr Kelly Nichols and the connection between horror and erotica. In her mailbag, a testimonial from a woman who learned to love penetration.

Susie loves holidays, but Easter is one of her favorites. To celebrate, Susie happily brings you a basket of fake grass and the real origins of hot crossed buns and decorated Easter eggs. Then, Susie's back to talking about New York Times reporter Kurt Eichenwald and his admission that he secretly paid money to the main source in his investigative story on child pornography.

Which camp are you in when it comes to shaving? One side says furry bush and underarm hair is so sexy, while purists say give me bald pubs and smooth legs! The age-old battle is up for discussion on today's show. Susie looks at a recent article in The New York Times that featured pics of some Hollywood celebs, showing them to be with the unshaven crowd. The red carpet has seen a lot of fashion choices, but this look has really turned some heads.

Ever wonder how women were supposed to pee, menstruate, and defecate with their chastity belts locked on and their husbands riding off to the Crusades? Well, put that quandary to bed! As revealed by a Boing Boing article that Susie discusses, the belts were a big joke in the Middle Ages. Today, men still enjoy fantasies about horny women with wild sexual appetites who must be controlled. And for women, the fantasy is "I belong to a cruel master." That's fun modern-day role playing, but actual medieval chastity belts were a myth.

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?

Today's show features a fiancée who has gone cold, a look at more GOP madness, and asks, "Will corsets make a comeback?"

Susie comes to the rescue of a lifelong lesbian who desperately needs some advice about men. What kind of help is she seeking? Counseling for how do it for the first time with a man.

Like most people, Susie gets a lot of e-mail spam promising weight loss, great fortune and outstanding sexual capabilities. In this week's Front Page, Susie reads a recent spam email that takes the cake. Susie herself is the Media Whore this week as she reads to you from her new e-book, How to Read/Write a Dirty Story. And, in her Try this at Home mailbag, Susie answers a question from a young man whose doctor won't take his sexual problems seriously.

In today show, we take a look at autofellatio. Writer Jesse Bering's article in Slate ("So Close, and Yet So Far Away: The contorted history of autofellatio") has Susie wondering what this kind of acrobatic self-pleasure would feel like….

Susie spends the first part of today's show looking at a controversial idea that could help some very lonely people get relief. If prostitution were legal, could we avoid rampages like the recent Isla Vista massacre?

On this week's In Bed, Susie reports on the Republican National Convention from Mexico. Hate in its many forms got its day. Then, it's "New on Audible". Matthew Weiner reads Frank O'Hara's Lunch Poems. The inner world that O'Hara explored had a direct impact on Mad Men, the TV series Weiner created.

Today we feature an interview with a man whose job it is to pleasure women. Imagine what fun it might be to be a vibrator designer. Here's a man who needs to know his product is not only functional but sensational in all respects. Susie talks with Ethan Imboden, the founder and chief creative behind Jimmyjane, a company that believes "naughty is nice, sexy is smart, and pleasure is in the details." They talk about sex-toy designs, electric versus battery power, and vibrator aesthetics.

It's our annual look at the Top Sex Stories of 2010. Susie loves to remember the most outrageous events from last year and to tote up how many news stories had to do with sex. She's always surprised by what made the headlines. This year's list ranges from the Sexting craze to the end of Craig's List sex ads - and more!

This year's sex issue from New York magazine had two articles that caught Susie's interest. The first article, "Marriage with Benefits: The New Monogamy," left Susie quibbling over the rules set up by some of the couples interviewed, but she loves the jargon. Then, teenagers and parents of teenagers are given a quiz to measure just what parents know and kids say about their sex lives. Finally, in the mailbag, Susie gets a letter from a woman who is engaged to very sexual guy.

Just when you thought you'd heard it all... sluts are the reason the Tea Party lost in the last election. This incredibly weird idea comes from The Christian Men's Defense Network. Susie has to share the article with you! The anonymous writer decries slutty women - who supposedly don't make decisions based on reason - and those cheating Democrats who convinced them that Romney would take away their birth control and abortions. So the slut vote defeated the Republicans. Holy smokes! Power to all those loose women!

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.