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In this week's Front Page, Susie navigates the treacherous waters of office romances, offering her advice on what to do and not to do when you've got eyes for the cutie at the water cooler. In her Media Whore scopes, she zeros in on a CD called Gynomite, featuring work from two women talking about sex, Teresa Mendoza's "Amor" and Pam Ward's "Sex Scene." In her Try this at Home Mailbag, Susie hears from a woman about the effects of Prozac on her sex life and emotions in general.

A new book has unleashed a media frenzy about one mother's controversial way of raising her kids. Battle Hymn of a Tiger Mother by Amy Chua reveals some extreme demands she places on her daughters. She expects perfection in everything! On today's show, Susie takes a look into the sexual-developmental side effects this kind of parenting may have on kids. Susie equates the lack of pleasure and self-determination to a post-puberty future of despair and denial. Wow, what's a parent to do?

Susie takes a look back at the top sex stories of 2007. The year was filled with sex freaks, drugs, and gay fetishes - and that was just the Republicans in the U.S. Senate and state legislatures. Susie predicts the gay infrastructure of government will soon be exposed. Other sex headlines Susie examines concern infertility and why it's such a huge business, abstinence education's complete failure, gay marriage's homophobic laws, and Viagra and future female sex-enhancement drugs.

Susie is off this week and wants you to enjoy this show from 2007…. We start off with the true story of one U.S. senator's diaper fetish - he's our kinky hypocrite of the week! Then, in Part One of a two-part interview, Susie talks with feminist author Katha Pollitt, who's been writing about feminism for decades and is perhaps best known for her Nation magazine column "Subject to Debate".

This week's show kicks off Susie's San Francisco interview series. First up is Veronica Monet, a prostitute who is also an avowed feminist, a loving wife, and a professional speaker. Veronica talks with Susie about how she got into hooking, why she stays in it, and what she's learned. She also shares her list of etiquette tips when calling an escort service. And, in this week's Try This at Home mailbag, Susie answers a man who wants to hang out in the nude (with others) before he dies.

Susie is at home with the flu. While she recovers, she thought you'd get a kick out of listening to a show from 2003. To celebrate the last of the lazy, hazy days of summer, Susie wants you to put pen to paper and think about what really turns you on. It's all part of her tips on how to write sexy, fun, dirty, reasonably realistic, and readable sex scenes. Susie reads "The Final Climax" from her book How to Write a Dirty Story to give you a very specific idea of what works and what doesn't.

Susie announces the winners of her Valentine's Day contest before paying tribute to her good friend Hunter S. Thompson who committed suicide last month. Susie says among his other traits, Thompson was a rebel with a cause and there are few things more erotically attractive. Then, in the mailbag, Susie helps a listener chose a sex toy for her boyfriend.

With the start of the New Year, Susie takes a look back at the sex of 2003. The biggest story? The death of porn. Sure, it's still out there - more than ever, in fact - but Susie wants to know where's the love when multinational corporations are jumping on the porn bandwagon left and right? Then, Susie wants you to visit her new "Clits Up!" boutique. And, in her mailbag: the real address of traditional values, (finally) a doctor's good advice, and how can anyone get turned on by sex that's cruel?

Back in the news again is Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. And once more he's being scrutinized for his sexual habits. Surprisingly, Susie finds one thing she and Thomas have in common: their love of porn! This is a "hobby" that plenty of people enjoy, so what's the problem if a bigwig justice is also a collector of porn? Nothing wrong there, says Susie, but she finds his alleged sexual bullying, harassment of women, and sexual tyranny a real problem.

On this week's In Bed, Shulem Deen, author and narrator of All Who Do Not Return, describes abandoning a Hasidic cult in which, on his wedding night, he knew how to broker a real-estate deal in ancient Babylon - but didn't know the fundamentals of how babies get made.

Susie has a beef with many women's magazines - she's mad that they change sexual facts just to fit more fashionable ideals. Give us a break! In today's show, Susie helps dig out the dirt on these less-than-truthful articles. A story in the Columbia Journalism Review fuels today's discussion. "Sex, Lies and Women's Magazines" by Liza Featherstone brings up many interesting questions on the merit of magazine stories that produce sexual anxiety, obsession, and insecurities.

Polyamory can be so ho-hum. Susie starts with the story of a suburban grandmother who is completely unfazed by her daughter's alternative lifestyle. The, Susie has a critique of Kurt Eichenwald's recent investigative piece in the New York Times about a young man who was whoring himself on the Internet. In the mailbag, Susie hears from an 18 year old woman who is very afraid she's going to turn out to be one of those non-orgasmic women she's read so much about.

Susie's guest this week is Carol Queen, staff sexologist at Good Vibrations in San Francisco, and the author of Exhibitionism for the Shy and the cult classic erotic novel, The Leather Daddy and the Femme. Susie and Carol talk about the anatomy of an orgasm, including the elusive g-spot and what Viagra does for women. Then, in her mailbag, Susie answers a question about how to live with herpes.

Today's show starts off with some financial incentive about where to have sex. Yes, Susie uses dollars and cents to how costly it can be to get your rocks off. It started with a graphic design by Environmental Graffitithat puts the costs of buying condoms on a scale worldwide. There are some surprises as to what cities rank highest and lowest in prices when in comes to buying condoms. Hint, if you're traveling to Ireland buy some condoms before you go or else bring extra Euros for shopping at the pharmacy.

Susie starts by thanking her listeners for all the condolences she received about her father's death. Then, she reviews John Cameron Mitchell's film, Shortbus, which portrays a group of New Yorkers who attend a hip sex house/salon in post-9/11 Brooklyn. Then, in the news, Susie laments a recent case of a teenager whose wayward bra caused an accident. And, in the mailbag, a man is wondering if there are exercises he and his wife can do to restore their intimacy.

Today's show features a look at how erotic writers write. Susie shares her interview with Molly Weatherfield, author of the classic S&M novel Carrie's Story. First published in 1995 and regarded as one of the finest erotic novels ever written, it's smart, devastatingly sexy, and at times, shocking. It's now available as an audiobook, and Susie wanted to find out all the details that went into making this explicit, steamy story. She asks Molly about what other porn writers she enjoys reading and how the inspiration for Carrie's Story came. They also discuss fetish sex, fantasy, Regency romance, and BDSM.

On this week's In Bed, Susie talks to Andi Zeisler, author of We Were Feminists, Once, about the branding of "consumer feminism". If feminism is whatever makes you happy while shopping, is there any meaning left in the world?

Susie takes a look at some of the ways the Bush administration is spending its last months, including a big new federal porn bust. Yes, let's continue the war efforts with a new war on porn. Obscenity is at the heart of a suit brought against Evil Angel Productions, a film company that doesn't comply with Bush's faith-based values. The films in question depict female squirting, anal squirting, and enemas. Free speech and the first amendment will have to face their day in court again.

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?

Research reveals some alarming news about college co-eds and lesbianism. Campus sex is getting tamer, with fewer women experimenting in same-sex relationships. "What's happening to this generation?" asks Susie. Why are girls not going for girls in the hallowed halls of higher education? Susie has spent many years looking into college students' sexual habits, and she has a whole different take on this new phenomenon.