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Susie's just read the controversial book, Harmful to Minors by Judith Levine. Taking Levine's cue, Susie offers her six tips to help your children develop positive, sexual images of themselves. Then, in the second part of her interview with Staci Haines, the author of A Survivor's Guide to Sex, Staci talks about confronting her father and her organization, Generation Five. In her mailbag, Susie offers tips to a woman who wants to become the exhibitionist her husband desires.

Susie has Louisiana on her mind. Having recently visited the Big Easy, she reminisces about all of New Orleans' great offerings for sex and sensuality. Susie finds much grace in the city, from the great jazz on WWOZ radio to the Katrina recovery efforts of regular citizens. All this, plus a look at Susie's participation in the tenth anniversary of The Vagina Monologues celebration held in Louisiana.

Shopping for sex toys is easier then ever now, because of so many options. Now it's possible to buy "personal products" at Target. Your cart can have a discount sweater, Valentine's card, cheap cat food...and a vibrator. Susie takes a look at how the sex-toy business has exploded and gone mainstream, then reminisces about the good old days of dirty bookstores - and how buying porn used to be thrilling and daring.

Hurricane Sandy caused so much destruction for so many people, and many are still reeling from this horrible storm. Susie's heart goes out to all that are suffering, and she takes a moment today to look at how people's sex lives are affected by natural disasters. Susie reads a letter from fellow sexpert Cory Silverberg, who is still helping his neighbors clean up. He takes a philosophical look at sex in a time of disaster.

Susie spends the entire show with her guest Daniel Bergner. His just-released book What Do Women Want? is on the New York Times best-seller list. The book is subtitled Adventures in the Science of Female Desire and it disrupts the typical idea that women are more monogamous then men. His research looks at women's desire and arousal, and he turns the tables on conventional thought. Susie and Daniel talk about why women aren't seen as animalistic, whether research takes into consideration sexual politics, and female erotic fantasy and lust.

The Internet has made it easy to enjoy virtual sex of all kinds. This week, Susie takes a look at a very bizarre case surrounding underage pornography. And there's a twist in this story; a man is manipulating photos using the faces of young girls and then superimposing them onto adult bodies. Is this virtual child porn?

A new drug, Truvada, is on the market - a preventative treatment for AIDS and HIV. This is really big news, says Susie, and she's wondering why there's been so little press on this health milestone. She explains what the new drug can and can't do. It's not for people looking for a Viagra-type boost when having casual sex. It's also not for those already infected with the AIDS virus. Where does it work? Those uninfected but at high risk will be good candidates, and also, surprisingly, this new treatment may be helpful for married couples if one partner is infected.

Susie says if you think fundamentalist Christians have the market on punitive messages about sex, think again. An article from The Guardian takes a look at the way Islamic scholars talk about sex, and let's just say it starts with keeping your clothes on - all the time. Then, in the mailbag, Susie takes a hard line with a woman says she's plagued by recurrent urinary tract infections.

Susie celebrated the very start of 2007 by putting winning a wet T-shirt contest: her first! Then, when Susie looks back on 2006, she says one of the biggest sex stories was Britney Spears flashing herself for the world to see. Susie says the whole phenomenon is remarkable, but mostly because people don't even know, or want to know, what they're looking at. Then, in the mailbag, Susie offers some advice to a woman who worries her boyfriend will be grossed out when he goes down on her.

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 starts off today's show by discussing the hacked Ashley Madison website, which offers discreet affairs for married people. The site has come under fire, but not just for the hack. When their database of confidential users was leaked, more interesting data surfaced as well. It looks like the site's whole service was a scam. Next, Susie found a great article about sugar daddies (and mommies)....

Susie talks with sexual historian and scholar Jeffery Escoffier about the beginnings of the gay porn-film industry. Who knew that Stonewall and Deep Throat were preceded by gay filmmakers who had become unsatisfied with beefcake magazines, no penetration, and unrealistic portrayals of gay life? Susie and Jeff talk about perversity, porn chic, and straight guys who do gay porn.

Susie's NYC interviews are here! Susie kicks off the series by talking with Robin Adams and Micole Taggart, the women behind Sweet Action Magazine (www.sweetactionmag.com). Sweet Action is one of the rarest of porn mags, created by straight women for straight women. It features lots of nude pictures of hunky men and some tips-and-tricks articles to help straight women improve their game.

Susie starts us off with a look at electoral politics at a strip club in Florida. That's right - people in the sex industry are talking about which presidential candidate they might vote for next month. A recent article in The Huffington Post stated that both political parties have a lot to prove to workers at this bar, as well as its patrons. Seems like both Romney and Obama have a long way to go to please some working-class people and earn their votes.

Susie has a new crush and she's fallen hard for Chelsea Girl, the women behind the very hot Pretty Dumb Things blog. Susie wants to share Chelsea Girl's "9 Steps to Deep-Throating a Cock". Trust us, these fall into the category of hottest and most practical tips you've heard in a long time. Then, in the mailbag, Susie offers some advice to a man who recently started wondering if his single orgasm wife is missing out.

Susie's guest this week is Andi Zeisler, co-founder and editorial director of Bitch....

On this week's In Bed, Susie talks to Laura Lane and Angela Spera, authors of This Is Why You're Single - a hilarious collection of modern fables for the age of digital dating.

Susie weighs in on some pressing pop culture issues this week. First, she has her review of Showtime's new series about LA lesbians called The L Word. Plus, she reads a letter from a listener who still wonders what all that fuss was about seeing Janet Jackson's breast on national TV. Then, in her mailbag, Susie has some tips for a woman who feels beleaguered by her friend's new love for bondage.

Happy New Year! While Susie will be participating in her very first wet t-shirt contest to ring in 2007, she hopes you enjoy hearing another selection from her delicious new audio versions of Best American Erotica. This week the story is by Nelson George and it's called, "It's Never Too Late in New York".

Susie kicks off her NYC interview series with a two-part interview with journalist Debbie Nathan. Debbie is the expert on sex scandals and is perhaps best known for her book, Satan's Silence: Ritual Abuse and the Making of a Modern American Witch Hunt about some of the widely covered sex panic cases that rocked the U.S. in the '80s and '90s, such as the McMartin daycare case in California. Debbie makes a case for why more people, not less, should be allowed to view child pornography on the Intenet.