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Today, Susie has an interview with Eric Schaefer, author of Sex Scene: Media and the Sexual Revolution. Professor Schaefer teaches at Emerson College in the Visual and Media Arts Department. His new book looks at exploitation and sexploitation within films, tabloids, novels, and audio recordings. Chapters include "Wet Dreams", "Porn Goes to College", "Beefcake to Hardcore", and "33 1/3 Sexual Revolutions Per Minute", to name a few. Susie and Eric discuss the origins of X ratings, Jane Fonda's movie orgasms, Swedish erotica, Russ Myer's nudies, and more.

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 interviews one of today's most popular porn stars: Asa Akira. Asa has been working in the adult-entertainment business for six years and has garnered many awards for her work in over 400 adult films. At the AVN awards show, sponsored by Adult Video News, she's won for best anal scene, best double-penetration scene, and best all-girl three-way sex scene. She's also been named best porn star of the year. Susie and Asa talk about how to stay healthy in the business, why being dominated can be so hot, and how to write smutty haikus.

Right-wing bloggers are skewering popular actress Lena Dunham. Why? Dunham wrote in her memoir about bribing her younger sister to kiss her and apply make-up when they were both children. Conservatives are crying abuse. Susie says give me a break! This misdirected focus on a celebrity is pathetic. Let's talk about real sexual predators and where they exist.

Are you familiar with the term "tossing salad" when it means something other than mixing the lettuce for dinner? If not, here's a vocabulary tip: hipsters use this phrase to mean eating booty, or anilingus. Susie reads from a Gawker article by Tyrone Palmer that details recent hip-hop stars' declarations of liking to "eat da booty". Citing many rappers, this article shines a positive light on what Susie says is a delightful pleasure that has been stigmatized as dirty - and as a line that shouldn't be crossed - and that means you are gay. Next, a headline: Men Who Make Virginity Pledges as Teens Struggle with Sex Once Married. Susie finds this research, from livescience.com, to be understandably true - and sad.

A new escort service for women looks like prostitution, smells like prostitution, but it's non-sexual - because classy ladies don't want that. Oh boy, does Susie ever have fun reading from Julieanne Smolinski's article from Medium.com about this "ManServants" business. The company rents out attractive gentlemen who will attend to your every need, as long as it's not sex! This service costs a lot of dough, but it's so worth it when your rent-a-guy says "Yes, My Lady" to your every command.

A sexy blond woman lying on a tropical beach whispers, "The setting is perfect, but then erectile dysfunction happens again." This is Viagra's bold, new shift in advertising. No more guys, both young and old, horsing around as the announcer suggests that taking Viagra is as common as swallowing an aspirin. Now the company wants women to order the drug. Susie found the details in The New Yorker, in an article by Ian Crouch. She says this approach is more honest.

You may not know author Terry Southern's name, but you know his work. He wrote the screenplays for Dr. Strangelove, Barbarella, and Easy Rider, to name just a few. Susie is a big fan of his writing and was especially blown away when she read his 1970 book Blue Movie. It's a satirical novel about making a high-budget porn film featuring big-name stars. On today's show, Susie shares some of the audiobook edition, which she narrated! We'll hear Susie read from the beginning part of the book - a fun and sexy listen.

Today's show is an homage to Christian Mann, an erotic-film producer who was a mentor to Susie and the producer of Edward PenisHands, the best porn parody ever! Christian was a second-generation sex-film entrepreneur. His father, Kurt Mann, created the first wrestling mags, nudie mags, and stag-film productions. Like his father, Christian went on to innovate in the adult-entertainment business around multi-cultural and black sex movies. Susie and Christian were friends, and Susie has many fun stories and memories to share with you.

Today Susie speaks with legendary author Walter Mosley. His new book Debbie Doesn't Do It Anymore is about a woman who's had it with the porn industry. Mosley may be best known for his best-selling mystery series featuring Easy Rawlins. Susie asks Walter about how he researched this book and how he knows about porn. They also talk about exploitation, black identity, sex work, writing for Hollywood, "sexistential" novels, and how to stay young as you get old.

The debate about teaching sex ed in schools is eternal, but now there's new resistance from some parents in California. Susie reads from a Time article by Alexandra Sifferlin about a group of parents who started a campaign to remove a sex-ed textbook from their local middle school, arguing that it was inappropriate for their 13- and 14-year-olds. Susie has a lot to say about this, noting that she finds parents to be overly protective and unaware of what teenagers already know.

The state of Indiana has put a woman in prison for 20 years on charges that she killed her fetus, and reproductive-rights activists are outraged. Susie reviews the grisly details of how this happened. The woman is Asian American, single, and from a religious Hindu family that looks down on premarital sex - a perfect storm that led her to hide her pregnancy. But when the complications of a miscarriage caused her to seek medical help, she was quickly put in jail.

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.

It's an outdated notion that only men will pay to have sex. What has changed in the past decade that makes more women okay with paying for escorts and sexual encounters? Susie will shed some light on the "why" as she reads from an article in the Sydney Herald. Written by Matty Silver, the story uncovers the many reasons, ranging from career women wanting privacy about their sex lives, to others simply wanting an arranged tryst rather then meeting someone at a bar. Go, women, go!

Today's show features a fiancée who has gone cold, a look at more GOP madness, and asks, "Will corsets make a comeback?"

A man was told by his doctor that he has idiopathic fibrosis and that he has 100 orgasms left before his penis stops working. What would you do in his shoes? Susie found this story at BroBible.com and has some compassionate advice for him. There are other great ways to get off without using his meat hammer, for example; how about catching up on some reading? Susie suggests a great book entitled Anal Pleasure and Health.

Oh, oh! Thanks to Indiana's new "religious freedom" law, businesses can now tack up signs that say, "No Queers Served". Some see the law as a "sword" allowing discrimination against same-sex couples; others see it as a "shield" that gives people more freedom to follow their faith. But Susie says this is discrimination against the vulnerable. But what does peyote have to do with all of this? Susie reveals all.

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....

Van Barnes is an actor and producer, known for being a transgender spokesperson. Susie had the chance to interview Van this summer while she was in the middle of production on the new Amazon TV series Transparent. Van has lots of great behind-the-scenes stories for us about working on the show. Susie also has a follow-up interview with Van, in which he explains how life is going now that season one is being watched, critiqued, and reviewed. What has been the audience's response? You'll hear lots of fun, sexy tidbits from Van and Susie.

Have you heard about Transparent, Amazon's new original TV series? Susie says it's the most taboo-breaking sexuality-related TV show ever. The characters include a trans-gendering dad, a traditionally married daughter (who has just reconnected with her former girlfriend, a lesbian), a son who sleeps with a different woman every night, and the youngest daughter, who is into drugs and three-way sexcapades. Susie has been working with the cast and crew to create audio interviews that take us behind the scenes of season one, and she has a preview for you.