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Today's show starts off with a serious look at the connection between dominance and pleasure. S&M followers understand and willingly participate in erotic role playing, but what about those military men and women involved in torturing prisoners? Are they sexual sadists too? Susie talks about how the military's torture training changed a friend from peace lover to aggressive dominator. And what does this all say about Abu Ghraib? Next, Susie reviews the reviews: what are the best positions for sex?

Today's show is all about you! Susie opens her enormous mailbag and spends the entire program answering your sex-question letters. We call this a mailbag blowout! First, Susie hears from three listeners who are all dealing with low libido - of their spouses or themselves. Help! Then, the herpes mysteries continue, and Susie gives some sound advice on how to deal with many related problems, including shedding. Finally, a listener has some strange sexual ideas that Susie has to untangle.

It's every parent's nightmare: talking about sex with your teenager. Susie and her daughter are beyond that scary conversation; instead they recently had the chance to together give out sexual advice on the popular blog Jezebel.

Susie speaks with the DC Madam, Deborah Jeane Palfrey. Palfrey's escort business called Pamela Martin Services made the headlines after being busted by the US Government. Palfrey alleged that her clients included many Beltway personalities, including the State Department official Randall L. Tobias who then resigned after admitting he used her service. Deborah Jeane tells Susie about her teenage years, how she coached her working girls to be safe, and why she still believes in love.

Susie Bright, the host of In Bed with Susie Bright, wants to read you some of her favorite dirty stories. In this collection of eight stories, you'll hear reminiscences of sex past from Tsuarah Litsky, in transit encounters from Nell Carberry, an updated Beauty and the Beast tale from Claire Tristram, as well as stories from Jess Wells, Alma Marceau, and Ernie Conrick. Almost all of these stories originally appeared in the annual Best American Erotica collection, edited by Susie Bright.

Susie starts off today's show with a look at a comic strip that takes on the "Orientation Police". That's right - it's those annoying people who have a problem with someone else's sexual orientation, and they have to make sure you know about it! Cartoonist Bill Roundy has Susie in stitches as she reads aloud his comic about dating transgendered men. She also describes his funny drawings.

Susie starts with the story of a penis pumping Utah judge who is facing trial for exposing himself. Then, the FBI is looking for a few good agents to volunteer on the Porn Squad. And, in the mailbag, Susie offers some sex-positive tips to a church counselor who works with soon to be married couples.

Susie's guest is Jen Sincero, author of the hilarious and wise The Straight Girls' Guide to Sleeping with Chicks. Jen and Susie share notes on the thrills of sleeping with women and offer tips on how you too can make your sexual fantasies a reality. Then, in the mailbag, Jen Sincero sticks around to help Susie with a letter from a man who says he'd do just about anything to help his wife get in touch with her sexual fantasies.

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'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.

[Contains explicit content] Susie wants to share a special show from 2004, with her special guest, her dad. In his second appearance on In Bed, linguist Bill Bright talks about his book Native American Place Names in the United States. He explains why you shouldn't call either a Native American woman or a mountain top "squaw" and gives the fascinating secret sex history of many common place names. Then, in her mailbag, Susie explains the giggles and guffaws of tickling fetishes.

[Contains explicit content] Susie has an inmate conversation with author Juan F. Thompson, son of gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson. Susie was a friend of Hunter's. Juan was the one person Hunter trusted completely. They discuss the nitty-gritty of Hunter's writing struggles, his sexual point of view, what being a man in full meant to him, and living up to a mythic, impossible reputation.

[Contains explicit content] Susie starts off by recalling the glory days of Good Vibrations, the revolutionary women's vibrator store. Next, an interview from 2007 with legendary women's masturbation teacher and author Betty Dodson. Susie and Betty discuss the G-Spot, intergenerational sex, and what it was like when Mom asked her about her clitoris. Then, Susie reads a letter from a young woman who describes her kinky road to coming of age.

[Contains explicit content] Susie offers another listen to an interview from 2015 with author Shulem Deen. In All Who Do Not Return, he describes abandoning an Hasidic cult where, on his wedding night, he knew how to broker a real-estate deal in ancient Babylon - but didn’t know the fundamental basics of how babies get made.

[Contains explicit content] Susie finds Victorian love in the form of a Sapphic literary couple and their successful masculine nom de plume.

[Contains explicit content] Susie finds the most epic tweet thread of all time - and recalls her days running around San Francisco (and building a groundbreaking magazine) with strippers and prostitutes.

[Contains explicit content] Susie shares her memories of publishing giant Sonny Mehta and what his passing means for the culture of letters. Next, Twitter's "Nihilist Arby's" comes to life when a Missouri church elder tries to pay for sex with an Arby's gift card.

[Contains explicit content] Susie presents the annual Golden Duke Awards - the cream of the crop of political scandals in a year that was beyond full of choices. And then, new on Audible: editors Johanna Fateman's and Amy Scholder's collection, Last Days at Hot Slit: The Radical Feminism of Andrea Dworkin, revises the writing of the woman who, if it wasn’t for her, none of us would be here - if only to argue.

[Contains explicit content] Susie reads the letters of those who were sexually frustrated, ignorant, or full of braggadocio from a hundred years ago. Next, all about the last gay bar in the Tenderloin, once the gay center of San Francisco. And finally, Bernice L. McFadden's Praise Song for the Butterflies explores modern-day servitude and healing.

[Contains explicit content] Susie finds unsurprising new trends in porn for millennials. Next, the rise of self-driving cars can only mean one thing - more sex in cars. And finally, it's "New on Audible": Christopher Moore's Noir is genre-fluid fun.