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[Contains explicit content] Susie has some sexual advice that could save every man's life: Beat off like your life depends on it! A study shows that regular masturbation can reduce the risk of developing prostate cancer. Next, Susie takes a look at one literary author's secret success in writing erotic novels. Writer Rupert Smith takes on the "nom de porn" as James Lear as he writes steamy gay porn fiction. And finally, Susie gets a letter from a listener who reminisces about her sexy youthful time in New Orleans.

Susie starts off today's show with a labyrinth of ethical questions concerning a caregiver and a client falling in love. A professor of ethics at Rutgers University became involved with a severely disabled man while she was working with him. He could not speak, and she used "facilitated communication" - keyboard typing, with physical assistance from the professor - as a way for him to communicate. She thought they were falling in love. But his family thought differently.

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.

On today's show, Susie talks with UK novelist and journalist Stephanie Theobald. She's working on a new book about what she calls the last taboo: masturbation. Theobald has been described as "one of London's most celebrated literary lesbians", and her work has focused on sex, sexual identity, and art.

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'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.

[Contains explicit content] We're talking prostate massage and prostate milking today. What? You don't know about this? It's sometimes done by doctors for medical reasons. But it can also be a sexy, fun adventure done at home for your pleasure and health too. Next, it's "Tell Me Your Sex Story": Listeners tell Susie all kinds of personal intimate details about their sex lives as she invites these "regular folk" to enter her sexual confession booth.

[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 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 that the phrase "use it or lose it", like many clichés, is literally true. Women who don't have sex or masturbate enter menopause earlier. Next, a deaf man sues PornHub for not offering captioning on his preferred videos. And from the mailbag: the boyfriend who jerks off every night next to his girlfriend.

[Contains explicit content] Susie answers a multi-part question about lesbian bed death, elder sex, handicapped sex, and a stone butch code of honor. And then, new on Audible: Joanna Russ's How to Suppress Women's Writing examines the many ways women's writing is dismissed.

[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 looks at the long reach of youthful sexual assault. Then, from the mailbag: Do the house rules change when your kid's friend comes out as trans?

[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.

[Contains explicit content] Susie reads the love letters of the highly literate. Prepare for some beautiful and, at least in James Joyce's case, downright filthy writing. Then, it's "What's on Audible": The passing of Mary Oliver sent Susie deep into her poetry, which is soaring, present, and knife-sharp.

[Contains explicit content] Susie looks at how bicycles helped usher in a new sexual freedom for women in the 1800s. Next, a record number of Americans aren't having sex. Is the species doomed or are the surveys all smoke and mirrors?

[Contains explicit content] Susie explains why the US women's national soccer team is after more than equality. Next, what sets E. Jean Carroll's accusation against the president apart. And then, what's on Audible: Our newly appointed United States Poet Laureate Joy Harjo's Crazy Brave: A Memoir - a Bright List classic.