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Susie Bright is the first and reigning queen of contemporary erotica. In How to Write a Dirty Story she reveals her tricks of the trade and shows you how to heat up sex scenes in everything from traditional novels and romances to science fiction and humor. Easing the aspiring writer into the creative process, she tells you how to write the steamy plots and sensual characters that publishers and readers (and listeners) are looking for.

In The Best American Erotica 2002, Maggie Estep relates the surprising sexual happenings in a detox clinic, Francesca Lia Block explores the aquatic fantasies haunting a surfer, and Ernie Conrick introduces a tennis star and sex symbol who surrenders to an unusual coach. In these 23 stories you will also find cutting-edge work from other luminaries and from the Internet, where the next wave of erotica has matured into some of the most enticing writing around.

In this excerpt from In Bed with Susie Bright, Susie interviews Yale psychologist Paul Bloom about his fascinating best-selling book How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like. Paul and Susie talk about the pleasures of sex and how we perceive them.

Susie starts off today's show with an article from the New York Times. It seems more women are looking for an over-the-counter libido fix. Sales of all kinds of gels, oils, and vibrators have become mainstream. A walk down any pharmacy aisle in the "intimate lifestyle" section (often right by the Band-Aids) reveals extraordinary choices for starting up women's mojos again. Susie says okay, not bad, but why buy all the hype? Vegetable oil and good old fashioned foreplay can be a less expensive way to find the sweet spot again.

Susie Bright interviews Jillian Lauren, author of Some Girls: My Life in a Harem. Lauren talks about her incredible real-life experience “auditioning” for the harem of Prince Jefri of Brunei.

[Contains explicit content] In this 2015 show, Susie talks with UK novelist and journalist Stephanie Theobald, who was then working on a new book about what she calls the last taboo: masturbation. Theobald, who has been described as "one of London’s most celebrated literary lesbians", writes about sex, sexual identity, and art. Get ready for a steamy conversation filled with travels and fantasies of long-haul truckers! 

Susie's guest is Veronica Vera, founder and dean of "Miss Vera's Finishing School for Boys Who Want to be Girls" and the author of Miss Vera's Cross-Dress for Success. Susie met Miss Vera years ago and Susie's first glimpse into Miss Vera's copious collection of lacy underthings was a true introduction to Miss V's dedication to all things womanly. At her cross-dressing academy, men (and some women) sign up for classes to learn the fine arts of being a woman.

Susie's still laughing about a recent interview in The Harvard Crimson in which ultra-conservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia explained why he's into orgies. Then, it's off to Craigslist and a personal ad with quite a headline, "I Don't Mind Sucking You Off, but Here's What I Need From You." Boys of Altanta and beyond, listen up! In the Try This at Home mailbag, Susie hears from a husband and wife seeking some hard to find porn classics.

In scanning the recent sex news, Susie finds "family-friendly" editions of Titanic are hitting the video store shelves. Then, Susie invites one of her favorite sex radicals into the studio. Staci Haines is the author of A Survivor's Guide to Sex: How to Have a Great Sex Life after Sexual Abuse. In a warm and facinating dicussion, Susie talks with Staci about the process of sexual healing for incest survivors. In her mailbag, an intro to sex toys for men.

This week, Susie has a very in your face interview with NYC photographer Ashkan Sahihi. Sahihi's most recent exhibit Cum Shots features Sears-style portrait photos of men and women with a surprising twist: each one has cum all over their face. This exhibit grabbed Susie attention immediately and, during their chat, Susie gets the scoop on how Sahihi got these shots, how commercialization of sex, and much, much more.

Susie wonders if old sex radicals die or simply fade away. Susie's been thinking about the people around her - her parents and her sex radical friends - and how they maintain their dignity both in and out of bed as they get older. Then, do you think writing erotic stories is easy? Think again! Susie offers her top three tips for what NOT to do when you are trying to get your sexy thoughts down on paper. In her mailbag, a plethora of topics - anal sex, mechanical orgasms, and what Susie likes in oral sex.

Susie's just finished The Big Book of Masturbation by Martha Cornog and she's ready to celebrate self-love! She'll regale you with the best slang terms for jacking or jilling off. She'll list the pros and cons of masturbation. She'll quote Mark Twain! You'll learn more about masturbation than you expect! Then, in her mailbag, Susie gets a letter from a woman who is disappointed her new lover lasts all night.

Susie explores some male masturbation tips when she visits www.jackinworld.com - the ultimate male masturbation resource. Susie recommends the "Torture Yourself" technique or how about the "Tiny One-Fingered Circle"? Then, Susie explores the place where the erotic and the romantic meet with another of her favorite erotic writers, Molly Weatherfield. Molly's the author of Carrie's Story, a S/M novel with a whip-smart heroine. In her mailbag, anal sex tips for a man who says he's a newbie on the topic.

The lesbian sex book that rocked girls from coast to coast. Here's what lesbians really do, not what the sex cops think we ought to do. Cruising, packing, fisting, G- spots, porn stars, dildos, vibrators, anal sex, group sex, sex with straight girls, dental dams, lube 'n latex, sex during pregnancy...and more!

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, Susie breaks open two controversial topics: incest - and justice. She begins with the most provocative child-abuse accusation to enter the public's awareness in years - Dylan Farrow vs. Woody Allen - and ends with an argument for justice that is ageless. Susie ponders the question of what we are supposed to think when celebrities take to the press about their family abuse. Is it about money? Is it about immortality? Or is it just more of the screwed-up lives that Hollywood produces so effortlessly?

After Andrea Dworkin, the famous feminist philosopher and activist, passed away, her chief critic, Susie Bright, who many perceived as Dworkin's opposite, published a stirring obituary and series of essays in which she described the ways that Dworkin was a catalyst for the sex-positive movement in contemporary feminism.

On this week's In Bed, Susie talks to writer Charlotte Shane. Her recent article for Fusion, "The Painful Truth About Tight Vaginas", broke down cultural expectations and shed light on the harm done by Kegels.

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.

The Internet site dailydot featured a recent article with the headline, "Sex-positive female masturbation app rejected from App Store". This caught Susie's attention big-time. While the store offers many other apps that could be considered offensive, Susie wonders what's so bad about this game called Happy PlayTime, in which a cartoon vulva teaches women how to get comfortable with their clitorises. Seems like outright, blatant sexism.