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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.

In honor of Susie's almost-here-but-not-quite-yet upcoming birthday, this week's Front Page offers a remembrance of birthdays past - her Story of O birthday party, her "Saturn returns" party, the "First Year as a Mom" party, even the "Meet me in New Orleans" party - it's all here! In this week's Media Whore section, Susie discusses Betty Dodson's impressions of Eve Ensler's hit play, The Vagina Monologues - more info about sex for pleasure, and more!

On this week's Front Page, Susie gives an update on Alabama's case against the use of vibrators. Susie takes a dip in the seas surrounding the reality TV show Temptation Island only to find the water is fairly tepid. And in this week's Try This at Home, Susie answers a question from a listener who wonders if he's more perverted than that person sitting next to him on the bus.

Susie catches up with Tristan Taormino about extreme tickling, how to fix a leather contest, and "WTF happened to the porn business?"

Indiana University researchers have recently been busy looking into Americans' sexual behaviors. Susie wants to know what trends have they found. Who are we having sex with? Are we having more sex? And who is really having more orgasms? These are some of the questions polled in the researchers' Nielson-like sampling of adults.

Get ready to meet your fellow In Bed devotees! Today's show features the first in a series of listener interviews. Susie asked who would be willing to tell their sex stories, and many of you accepted the challenge. Susie and listener "Lucy" speak about deeply intimate, personal sex acts, fantasies, and anal sex. This is HOT!

On this week's In Bed, Susie asks why Michigan babies are still drinking lead-filled water while state legislators have their hands full passing a new anti-sodomy law. Dirty water okay...dirty sex never!

Ever wonder about what it takes to be a porn actress? Well, Susie just finished voicing the role of a porn star for a new audiobook, and she had a blast acting the part. In Money Shot, by Christa Faust, the main character, Angel Dare, manages to get herself into a whole lot of sexy trouble. Susie read the part with gusto! She has worked in many different aspects of the sex industry, and she offers her insight into what this story does really well, and where it captures a realistic look inside the porn business.

A new escort service for women looks like prostitution, smells like prostitution, but it's non-sexual - because classy ladies don't want that. Oh boy, does Susie ever have fun reading from Julieanne Smolinski's article from Medium.com about this "ManServants" business. The company rents out attractive gentlemen who will attend to your every need, as long as it's not sex! This service costs a lot of dough, but it's so worth it when your rent-a-guy says "Yes, My Lady" to your every command.

Susie starts today's show with a look at the medicinal benefits of orgasms. Huh? Sure it feels good, but now researchers have proven that hormones released during the Big O can help lower pain. In a study testing pain levels in women, thresholds were significantly altered by vagina self-stimulation. Okay, says Susie. Now when cramps or a headache begins, it's time to make a beeline for the bedroom!

Part one of another New York City interview. Susie speaks with Leonore Tiefer, a sex therapist you'll never forget. Tiefer initiated the Campaign for a New View of Women's Sexual Problems to challenge the medicalization of dealing with women's sexual issues. Susie and Leonore talk about performance apprehension, sex education, and why Viagra is not the magic pill.

Today, Susie talks to an In Bed listener about what it's really like being a first-year medical student and what he's learning about helping patients with sexual issues. "Gideon" agreed to be a part of "Tell Me Your Sex Story", our ongoing series in which Susie usually asks nosy personal questions about what you listeners do under the covers. But here, Gideon and Susie delve into the practice of medicine. What is it like to dissect a penis? How do you tell the difference between S&M and abuse? And are new med students sensitive to LGBT issues?

There's a new embittered-fellow movement called "Men Going Their Own Way" that has Susie scratching her head. What's up with these guys? Why are they spending so much time talking about lesbians? Susie reads postings from an online forum, and these mostly straight-and-narrow guys have the weirdest take on bisexuals and homosexuals. Looks like some of the "going-their-own-wayers" are heading in a strange, asexual direction.

Women using birth control take note: There is a perfect method of contraception, and it's for men! That's right, there's an easy and effective way to avoid getting pregnant with a procedure called RISUG (reversible inhibition of sperm under guidance). It's relatively unknown, but it really works. You haven't heard about it yet because it's happening in India and is only in clinical trials in the United States. Susie, who read about this in Wired magazine, describes the simple procedure and the cool technical facts behind how the sperm is altered.

Susie's recent visit to a Web site for Kinky Christians reminds her of a particularly interesting dinner she had last year in Tennessee. Then, are the rules for dating in video games really all that different from the "real" world? Susie wants to find out. In the mailbag, Susie offers some advice to a woman who says she and her husband are wondering if her orgasms are normal.

Today, Susie speaks with author Justin Spring, a National Book Award finalist for his book Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist and Sexual Renegade. This biography reveals a man who had more sex then anyone - over 700 lovers!

A new feature on Amazon recently led Susie to a funny case of mistaken identity. In a book about traveling through Japan (William Ferguson's "The Highway to Hokkaido") someone named Susie Bright is mentioned teaching ESL through Porn. Then, Susie talks about her new toy, "The Slightest Touch" aka the Orgasmatron. It's an electrical device designed to help women overcome "the arousal gap." Then in her mailbag, Susie talks about sex after conception and what it takes to be the perfect gigolo.

Shopping for all your essentials is now easier. You just have to hit one store for your toothpaste, kitty litter, cough drops - and new vibrator! Yes, once only purchased at sex stores and discreetly online, now vibrators are the hottest items to be stocked prominently at a 7-Eleven near you. Susie wonders what to make of this new acceptance by prudish corporate America, and supposes we must follow the money....

Susie's been reading a midwife's blog recently, and she came across a topic you usually don't hear much about: How being obese changes a woman's vagina and sexual response. Then, Susie says a recent article on the science of sex left her wanting, but confirms that our body is usually a couple of steps ahead of our brains when it comes to desire. And, in the mailbag, Susie answers a letter from a woman whose partner has a strange way of asking for sex.

This week is Susie's birthday, and to celebrate, she invites one of her favorite authors onto the show. Hanne Blank has a new book out called Straight: The Surprisingly Short History of Heterosexuality, in which she delves into the history of how hetero was created and marketed to people around the time of World War II. Susie and Hanne talk about heterosexuality being a middle-class notion. They also riff on why we don't see Viagra ads for anal sex.