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When ISIS released its manifesto following the Paris bombings, Susie found their obsession with "prostitution" and "vice" a key insight into their twisted sexual revenge fantasies.

Free-market conservatives are actively strategizing on shutting down the government, based on fighting birth control. What's their end game? Susie is fascinated by these Republican lawmakers and has wondered why they are so adamant about getting their way. Reading from Amanda Marcotte's article in The Guardian, Susie covers the major points that make the right wingers so upset with Planned Parenthood's clientele. It has to do with being angry at people who are low-income, female, unmarried, and having kids.

What's the real scoop about cannabis and smoking-hot sex? All is revealed in an article entitled "High Satisfaction" at Nerve.com. Susie reads from Kate Hakala's story, and she reviews the effects of combining weed and sex. Think about what pot does: loosening inhibitions, relaxing one's state of mind, and inducing neurochemical pleasure. Combine that with sex, and fun stuff might well happen. There's not much research on the topic, but stoners will attest that these two activities go hand in hand.

You've heard of Anaïs Nin, the free-spirited feminist intellectual, but have you heard of Bern Porter? Susie starts of today's show with a look at one man's wild recounting of his supposedly wild sex life with Nin.

Susie delves into a thorny issue for parents. "My teenager is having sex.... No way, not my baby!" Many American moms and dads wish their high-schoolers had no interest in sex - and therefore the kids are sleeping together, but not at the family home. Two recent articles from Slate and The New York Times looked at allowing teens to have sex at home, and Susie discusses the pros of letting kids sleep together.

Susie is thrilled to hear that HBO is using “intimacy coordinators” on set - someone who knows the common pitfalls and needs of filming sex scenes. Next, a pre-lubed condom claims to last 1,000 thrusts. And finally, New on Audible, Acid Dreams offers a cultural history of LSD.

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!

Sex and Politics have always gone hand in hand. On today's show, Susie looks at the Tea Party's sexual agenda and how it may affect us all. The Tea Party members are ready for battle to make sure that their far-right viewpoint is heard. Oh boy, let's brace ourselves for a return to some old-fashioned values - and we're not talking about being a good Pollyanna; we're talking about making sure Pollyanna doesn't speak up, get out of line, or have a differing opinion.

The final installment of the New York City interview series with legendary women's masturbation teacher and author Betty Dodson. This 78-year-old is not afraid of telling it like it is and first made headlines back in 1974 with her book Liberating Masturbation. Susie and Betty discuss the G-Spot, intergenerational sex, and what it was like when Betty's mom asked her about her clitoris.

Susie looks at the over-the-top sex high-up officials in the Italian Catholic Church appear to be having. Next, in the 1950s, the queer youth of Philadelphia found each other on American Bandstand. And finally, it's "New on Audible": Lodro Rinzler has some practical advice for overcoming heartbreak in Love Hurts.

Susie wants to know where all the spy-cam vibrator data is ending up. Then, she reads a prescient tale of the ultimate chastity belt: Amelia Copeland's "His Little Plan Backfired".

Susie is off today, but wants you to enjoy this show from 2010. The Canadian courts now say whores have the right to run a lawful business. Next, "Charlie", a retired physician, gets into the sexual confession booth with Susie. Then, from the mailbag: "How come I'm getting a migraine headache just as I'm about to orgasm? Help!"

On this week's In Bed, Susie explores California's Prop 60 - the Condoms in Pornographic Films Initiative - and how it's not designed to help anybody. Then, Anaïs Nin gets assigned to the porn dungeon by Amazon.

On this week's In Bed, Susie looks at the secret history behind today's "bathroom gender tantrums". It ain't keeping the kiddies safe. Next, sex confessions between Howard Stern and Donald Trump - a trail of D-cups to the White House? And finally it's "What's New on Audible". Not Gay is an amazing survey of sexual encounters between heterosexual - straight, straight, straight - men.

Oh, really? There's a rumor going around of a bright-orange, phallic shaped, Hawaiian mushroom that triggers spontaneous orgasms when women sniff it. That sounds great, says Susie - except that this is hogwash! Every few years, a different story about a new erotic aphrodisiac pops up, and sorry to say, it's just hype.

Susie is under the weather this week but wants you to enjoy an episode from 2012, when she invited one of her favorite writers to join the show. Hanne Blank is the author of Straight: The Surprisingly Short History of Heterosexuality, in which she delves into the history of how hetro was created and marketed to people around the time of World War II. Susie and Hanne talk about heterosexuality being a middle-class notion, medical science and the understanding of sexuality, and if there really is a gay brain versus a straight brain.

Susie has found a very sweet and funny article about what really happens at summer camps. Written by Maureen O'Connor for New York magazine's thecut.com, the story includes 10 memoirs from teenagers about their sexual awakenings while away at camp. There are fake orgasms, shared showers, and time spent with older (and hornier) camp counselors. One story recounts riding horses and really enjoying the up-and-down motion. Another describes naked swimming in a pond....

Susie talks to novelist James Grainger. His book Harmless explores sex and masculinity in the aging Gen-X crowd. How do you write one sex scene to thrill and another to horrify? Titillation and sexual reality; threading the needle.

Susie asks if you really need a hostage negotiator to tell someone you've given them an STD. Then, it's the end of an era. Susie lets you down easy about why she won't be giving one-on-one sex advice any longer.

Susie boots 2016 out the door with a final look at the miscreants who rose to power and made a cage fight out of government this year. Ladies and gentlemen, it's the Golden Dukes. Then, In "New on Audible", it's Susan Faludi's In the Darkroom.