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Impressionist art from one of the masters of all time has a really intriguing back story. Susie looks at the life of Edgar Degas and how his sexuality informed his famous ballet dancer paintings. Degas captures their grace and discipline, but a new book reveals the dancers real lives and how Degas captured their beauty and hid their pain. Ballerina: Sex, Scandal and Suffering Behind the Symbol of Perfection by Deirdre Kelly inspired Susie to think about Degas' own erotic identity. He was a masochist, femme and repressed....

What is the evolutionary purpose of a woman's orgasm? On today's show, Susie ponders this question and looks at a wired.com article that called the female O a "mystery". If an orgasm isn't necessary to procreate, why does it exist biologically? Men need an orgasm to produce semen, so the science makes sense, but what about women? Is the fairer sex entitled to pleasure just for a bonus, for fun and feeling good? So many questions… but here comes Susie to the rescue.

Susie's picked her winner of the hottest book this summer and it's Lofting by Alma Marceau. This best selling erotic novel chronicles the sexual odyssey of a smart, funny and adventurous heroine. Turn the lights down low and let Susie read you an excerpt from this steamy book. In this week's Try this at Home Mailbag, Susie wants you to take notes on the top three things ALL of us want in bed. Then, Susie answers a young woman who's puting out a lot more than Susie recommends.

On Today's show, Susie speaks with comedian and author Lizz Winstead, co-creator of The Daily Show and radio's Air America. Lizz has a new biography out: Lizz Free or Die. In this first of a two-part interview, she and Susie talk about what it was like growing up in a strict Catholic household. What happens to a wise-cracking young girl who knows that both having sex and using birth control are sins? Answer: she decides that if she doesn't use protection, she's only committing one sin instead of two!

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?

In this episode, Susie talks about heartbeats and hellhounds in the ladies room: the anti-abortion laws have gone completely baroque. Next, a new survey of asexuals proves that when it comes to the erotic mind, the universal fantasies remain. And finally, from the mailbag: sexy holiday gift-giving dos and don'ts.

Susie hears a juicy sex dispatch from a listener in North Dakota regarding a sex columnist recenty fired from the local student paper. Then, after years of debunking tantric sex, Susie's finally found a book that makes the practice seem down-right interesting, at least historically. It's called Tantra: Sex, Secrecy, Politics and Power in the Study of Religion by Hugh Urban and Susie reads part of the preface as well as the larger-than-life story of Chogyam Trungpa.

Susie is off this week, but wants you to enjoy a show from 2009. Today we feature an interview with a man whose job it is to pleasure women. Imagine what fun it is to be a vibrator designer. Here's a man who needs to know his product is not only functional but also sensational in all respects. Susie talks with Ethan Imboden, the founder and chief creative behind Jimmyjane, a company that believes "naughty is nice, sexy is smart, and pleasure is in the details."

Ho, ho, ho.... Susie is off this week to celebrate the holidays. But she wants you to enjoy a show from 2008, when Susie responded to her overflowing mailbag of listener questions. Usually we tackle one question per show, but today we're playing catch up as we hear from five people looking for Susie's help. The topics vary from female ejaculation and vaginal health to how a massage can lead to getting it on. Susie also answers a letter that asks for advice about domination.

The porn police have raided their own jail cells! That's right; prisoners are losing the privilege of subscribing to adult magazines like Playboy or Hustler. What's all the fuss? asks Susie. Is porn really a problem in correctional institutions? It is in the state of Connecticut, or so they say - a new ban is set to limit porn by not allowing prisoners to receive such photos or magazines. But literary porn in books is still okay. Susie says they've got it all wrong!

Please note: Susie is away this week conducting interviews in NYC for future episodes of In Bed with Susie Bright. In the meantime, we offer you this program from her archives.
Susie's finally read the book everyone's been talking about, Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex by Judith Levine. Levine argues that sexuality is "a part of life for everybody, starting from the earliest ages." In that vein, Susie offers her six basic tips for helping your children develop positive, sexual images of themselves. Then, in the second part of her interview with...

Susie's history lesson this week is all about the dildo. The dildo's heyday came in the '80s, when a man from Brooklyn named Gosnell Duncan started making silicon ones. He even named one The Susie! The revolution stuck. Then, Susie reads a story from BAE 2004 called "Old Tengo's Penis" by Geoffrey A. Landis. In her mailbag, Susie offers some make up tips to keep your lipstick on during oral sex.

Move over FEMA, Susie's ready to roll up her sleeves and help out the Gulf Coast. In her very own, Hurricane Relief Special, Susie says when you send your dough, you should look beyond the obvious (and prudish) national organizations. Then, in honor of New Orleans, Susie reads "Essence of Rose" by NOLA writer Poppy Z. Brite. In her mailbag, Susie's gets an earful from very happy, very monogamous couples.

Susie recently watched a new gay porn film called Cirque Noir. Sure, this one had beautiful men and lots of sex, but there was also surprise - a detachable penis. One of the actors, Buck Angel, is a female-to-male transsexual and he's bringing something new to traditional gay porn. Then, in the mailbag, Susie offers some tips on making your next hand job deluxe.

Susie starts with a news item about a deaf couple who really got in trouble for being too loud in bed. And, after years of steady growth, sales of Viagra and other erectile dysfunction drugs have leveled off. Susie explains why such a popular drug would go limp. In the mailbag, Susie offers some advice to a woman who says her boyfriend just won't open his mouth for anything - literally or figuratively.

Susie recently attended the She Shamans conference and, for the first time, Susie had a chance to talk openly to women about sex and psychedelics. Susie says using drugs in general and psychedelics in particular is different for women. There's more taboo, and even women who feel comfortable talking about their drug use, rarely feel comfortable talking about the sex they have and want when they trip. Then, in the mailbag, Susie offers some advice to a very horny and very nervous late bloomer.

On this week's In Bed, Susie takes a look at the new book Scary Old Sex by Arlene Heymen. This new short-story collection gets into the intimate details of sex after 60. Next, it's invasion of the hens! Provincetown gay bars are being overrun by bachelorettes.

[Contains explicit content] Susie remembers her impressions of Amsterdam’s endangered Red Light District. Then, New on Audible, Charles Willeford’s Sideswipe, a Hoke Mosely novel, is everything you want in a detective novel: great characters, humor, and bodies everywhere. At last on Audible.

Yeehah!!! Party time for In Bed with Susie Bright as we reach show number 500. This week, let's celebrate and "listen back" to some of the show's most memorable moments. Over the past 10 years, Susie has interviewed celebrities, authors, and you listeners as well. She has offered advice and encouragement to keep living a sexually healthy lifestyle. And today we look back over the years by listening to excerpts.

Susie will be hitting the road soon to promote Mommy's Little Girl and that has her thinking about the life of the erotic tourist. Susie offers her hot tips to scout out the best sex around the U.S. Then, Susie does her best vibrator imitations while offering her reviews of two sex toys - a strobe-light dildo and a vibrating Teddy bear. Then, in her Try This at Home mailbag, Susie gets a letter from a woman who wants to come down from the mountain to find her perfect lover.