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[Contains explicit content] For anyone that lived through the 1980s AIDS crisis, watching friends dying like it was the apocalypse, it seems unthinkable that today's students don't know about this recent history. And then, what's on Audible: Dryland by Sara Jaffe takes place in 1992 in Portland, Oregon. Young teenager Julie is unexcited about life until she meets the swim team captain, who is trying to recruit her. It's a dare and a flirtation with many twists and family intrigues. 

Susie looks at Brigham Young University’s treatment of its LGBTQ students. They may have made some progressive changes to the honor code, but progress is measured in millimeters. Next, the Tik-Tok nurse spouting the same old conservative drivel that leads to outbreaks of STI’s in the heartland. And then, new on Audible: Dr. Anne L. Koch’s It Never Goes Away: Gender Transition at a Mature Age takes an unvarnished look at gender transition in later life. 

[Contains explicit content] Susie reminds you to bring your disinfectant wipes with you everywhere you go, but especially to the Santa Monica Public Library. Next, how in this year of 2020 can a grown man believe a teenager can “hold in” her period? And then, new on Audible: Cathy Porter's Alexandra Kollontai: A Biography profiles a true political and sexual revolutionary. 

[Contains explicit content] Susie offers another listen to an interview from 2016 with sex educator and author Cory Silverberg about his book for kids, Sex Is a Funny Word - the greatest parent lifesaver ever in the Sex Talk department. Next, why would anyone "love" premature ejaculation? And finally, it's "What's on Audible": To celebrate the Irish next month, we take a listen to Dublin Noir: The Celtic Tiger vs. The Ugly American. Fire up the peat and settle in with a Guinness! 

[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 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 explains what's behind the revenge porn videos in a UK strip club. Next, are women going off the pill in large numbers, just as they're about to lose abortion rights? And then, new on Audible: James Herlihy's Midnight Cowboy is so much more than the movie you remember. 

[Contains explicit content] Susie looks at the predictably tragic history of female masturbation cures through the ages. Next, how do sex workers draw the line between sex and work? Easily. Then, it's "New on Audible". Jane Harper's The Lost Man had Susie in bed till all hours just to find out who dunnit. 

[Contains explicit content] Susie sees right through the so-called "Billy Graham rule" in which, to avoid suspicion, a prominent man must never be alone with a woman. We all know it's to keep women out of the workplace altogether. Next, what do you do when your boyfriend's family shows up at your strip club? And then, new on Audible, the story collection Berlin Noir, about a city "saturated in a history full of blood, violence and death." 

Susie says goodbye to Paul Krassner, founder of the Yippie Party, Merry Prankster, Chicago 7 Witness on Acid, founder of The Realist, pioneer of the underground abortion network when such operations were illegal, and mensch. Next, Jeffrey Epstein may have committed suicide, but the doubt we carry says a lot about why the justice system is so much worse than any conspiracy theory going. 

[Contains explicit content] Susie recalls the life and work of one of her biggest intellectual influences - feminist writer, teacher, and activist Ann Snitow - and reads an excerpt from her paper, "Mass Market Romance: Pornography Is Different for Women". And then, "New on Audible": Margaret Atwood's Life Before Man, a sophisticated meditation on non-monogamy and marriage. 

[Contains explicit content] Susie takes a look at the latest sex scandal in the Southern Baptist church - and why our institutions are so prone to abuse. Next: The 1834 church wedding of a butch gentlewoman and a neighboring heiress. Then, it's "What's on Audible". One last valentine: Susie's Sexy Stories. 

[Contains explicit content] Susie examines what the movie Hustlers gets right and wrong about strip clubs. Then, New on Audible: Jacqueline Frances's The Beaver Show is the most honest portrayal of life on the pole you’ll ever hear.

[Contains explicit content] Susie comments on an article in the latest edition of The Atlantic, in which a writer has caught on to why young people are having less sex. Then, it's "New on Audible": Homage to Catalonia is a brilliant radio play that is just what audio is made for.  

[Contains explicit content] Susie remembers Go Ask Alice - the "diary" in which LSD is a gateway to pot and, inevitably, prostitution. Next: Yes, visiting a sex worker and not telling your girlfriend constitutes cheating!