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Susie is off this week, and will return with a hot new episode next time. She wanted you to listen again to a show from 2007, in which she talks about the origins of Easter. Did you know the Easter bunny got its start in a pagan fertility festival?

Susie looks into a case involving pastors who used their church as a porking pool. That's right, a pastor and his brother convinced some members of their small congregation that the women should not only love God, but love thy pastor as well. And it's getting messy down in Georgia as all the lawsuits finally come forward.

Susie introduces her latest blog, Random Honest Porn Review, a site where even you can write a review of your favorite porn movie. And she tells us about a recent posting that asked: what is up with circus-freak porn movies?

Susie takes a fascinating and thorough look this week at the reporting by The New York Times's Kurt Eichenwald. You may remember Susie has found much of Eichenwald's reporting about child pornography to be very insincere and tabloidish. Two recent stories have raised even more questions for Susie and others about how Eichenwald is accessing child pornography Web sites, and, beyond that, what his reporting means in the real world where children are being abused and exploited.

Susie's always on the lookout for Christian Web sites that relate to porn and she's found a doozy: www.jcsgirls.com. The site bills itself as a way for the Church to reach men and women working in or "seeking fulfillment in" the porn industry. Then, in the mailbag, Susie critiques two personal ads placed by a couple interested in swinging.

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 reads from an erotic fable that will surely keep us all in the holiday spirit. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Olen Butler has written a tale about what happens when a husband is reincarnated into a parrot and his wife goes shopping for a Pretty Polly.

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.

[Contains explicit content] Susie talks to Christopher Zeischegg, aka Danny Wylde. He's a former porn performer and musician, and an extraordinary writer. His book Body to Job, looks at his career from amateur model to finding his feet after porn.

Happy New Year! Susie hopes that your new year will be filled with love, joy, and plenty of sex. But before we embrace 2010, Susie says goodbye to '09 with her list of last year's top sex stories.

Susie is off this week but wants you to enjoy a show from 2007 in which she talks about her favorite body parts. First, she's once again amazed at the closed-mindedness of some school administrators, as three high-school students were suspended for saying the word "vagina" during a production of The Vagina Monologues.

In the second part of Susie's interview with journalist Debbie Nathan, Debbie talks about why so many people say they're addicted to porn, and she explains how she fell into this often strange line of work. Debbie also talks about her new book Pornography: A Groundwork Guide, which is the first book for young adults about the history, politics, effects, business practices, working conditions, genres, and future of porn.

[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 looks at ACT UP's plan for eradicating HIV/AIDS. Does the president have what it takes to make good on his promise? Next, contrary to popular stereotypes, there are millennial men who don't like porn. And then it's "New on Audible": Ottessa Oshfegh's My Year of Rest and Relaxation.

Susie is home for the holidays, but wants you to enjoy this show from 2010…. This week is Part One of a conversation with Yale psychology professor Paul Bloom about his new book How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like. Susie is intrigued to hear what Dr. Bloom has discovered about desire and what we can and can't control. Susie and Paul discuss pornography and why it is so arousing. They also talk about sperm wars and why American men have such large testicles.

In this week's Front Page, Susie turns her skeptical, sexpert eyes on the growing industry of creams and potion being billed as " Viagra for women." While her free samples are in the mail, Susie explains her skepticism of these stimulating creams and potions and talks instead about what actually makes sex more pleasurable for women. In her Media Whore section, Susie lists her favorite educational sex videos from the porn industry. And, it's week three of Susie's summer challenge.

Susie talks lesbian imagery and the male gaze with Taschen Books editor Dian Hanson. Then, it's "New on Audible". We listen to Tereska Torres's Women's Barracks, a lesbian pulp story that aimed at titillating men in the 1950s. At its core, though, this is a story of female liberation and sisterhood during World War II.

Sexual Reality marks Susie Bright's return to politics and passion, jealousy and risk - in an intimate look at the human sexual condition. Chapters include: "The Story of O Birthday Party", "Strip Tea: A Most Unusual Tea Party", "Undressing Camille Paglia", "Egg Sex: Pregnancy and a Mother's Sex Life", "Blindsexual: What Every Bisexual Needs to Know", and "When 'No' Means 'I Didn't Know It Would Be Like This'".

Susie goes global this week when she interviews Salon's senior technology writer Andrew Leonard. Andrew's regular column on Salon, "How the World Works," focuses on globalization and technology. Andrew and Susie talk about the way the fastest growing countries like China and India are dealing with sex, and the way Western culture infiltrates these traditional cultures. Then, in the mailbag, Susie answers a letter from a woman who wonders why her very masculine boyfriend is looking at she-male Web sites.

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.