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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.

[Contains explicit content] In this 2004 show, 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'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 in the studio this week with one of her oldest friends and feminist mentors, Barbara Winslow. Barbara is the head of the women's studies department at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. She is also the author of Sylvia Pankhurst: Sexual Politics and Political Activism. In a fun romp through more than a century of feminist thought, Susie and Barbara discuss history of free love, focusing on religious communitarians during the Reform period.

Sex Researchers, Prostitutes, Sexologists, and MDs are some of the guests who talk about every sexual hot spot with Susie Bright. From masturbation and orgasms, to challenging sex games and surviving incest - no subject is taboo.

They thought she'd be easy. They thought wrong. It all began with the phone call asking former porn star Angel Dare to do one more movie. Before she knew it, she’d been shot and left for dead in the trunk of a car. But Angel is a survivor. And that means she’ll get to the bottom of what’s been done to her, even if she has to leave a trail of bodies along the way….

Susie says with Christmas in the air, it's the perfect time to tell her favorite Christmas story, the one about the time she played Santa. Then, with lots of listeners asking questions about polyamory, Susie offers a unique look at the day-to-day conversations she has with her lover in the story, "The Best She Ever Had". In this month's mailbag, Susie helps one listener define fidelity and gets an update from a man who tried polyamory, but couldn't swing it.

Susie's NYC interviews are here! First up: sexual pioneer Betty Dodson, the author of the seminal Sex for One and her latest, Orgasms for Two. Now 73, Betty has been teaching women how to masturbate for decades. These days, she's hooked up with a man nearly 50 years her junior and she says the sex has never been better. In her mailbag, Susie tells what it's really like to watch porn for a living.

In The Best American Erotica 2001, Marge Piercy introduces us to the nerd kid sex club, Nathan Englander explores the addictive power of a peep show, Jerry Stahl relates a dare from an extremely demanding girlfriend, and Dani Shapiro proves the difference between the fantasy and the reality of losing your virginity.

On this week's Front Page, Susie gives an update on Alabama's case against the use of vibrators. Susie takes a dip in the seas surrounding the reality TV show Temptation Island only to find the water is fairly tepid. And in this week's Try This at Home, Susie answers a question from a listener who wonders if he's more perverted than that person sitting next to him on the bus.

Best American Erotica 2002 and Susie's How to Write a Dirty Story are finally on the bookstore shelves. At last, Susie can talk about the great erotica she's been reading and editing over the last year. To whet your appetite, Susie reads the erotic story "Night Train" by Nell Carberry from Best American Erotica 2002 about a first date that gets much hotter on the subway ride home. Susie introduces her first Valentine's Day contest and offers some polyamorous etiquette tips.

Susie is all about the porn women enjoy this week. First, a recent article in The New York Times explained what types of porn movies are getting rave reviews on the new Playgirl channel. Then, Susie offers up her list of favorite porn movies, from the very pretty to the Victorian to the very raunchy Then, in the mailbag, Susie offers advice to a man who suspects his wife has been cheating on him for years.

It's an encore presentation of In Bed with Susie Bright this week featuring Susie's tips on "How to Have an Erotic Holiday." Susie's got just the right ingredients for you to get through - and even enjoy - this time of year. Then, Susie peruses the panoply of erotic self-help best selling books (and audiobooks!) and makes her recommendations for what goes into the most helpful types of sex books. Finally, from her Try this at Home mailbag, Susie tries the Fukuoku 9000 fingertip vibrator.

Susie's in the studio this week with lesbian scholar and activist Karla Jay, Ph.D. Karla is the author of 10 books, the most recent of which is Tales of the Lavender Menace: A Memoir of Liberation Dyke Life. In this fascinating conversation, Karla and Susie compare notes on their early radicalism, both inside and out of the lesbian community. Then, in the mailbag, Susie helps answer the question, "Is there a correct way to have sex when you're married?"

A woman sits alone on a train bound for Washington D.C. She's reading Lolita for the erotic writing class she teaches. Soon, a handsome man settles in next to her. As he sleeps, her mind drifts to sexy thoughts of this strong stranger...Susie reads Tsaurah Litsky's erotic story, "Reading Lolita on the 9:25," featured in Best American Erotica 2002, asks you to vote for your favorite erotic stories, and offers advice to a recently divorced woman who's ready to run wild in the streets.

Susie's back in her very own bed this week. She discusses sobering first hand accounts she heard about why date rape is so common on college campuses these days. Then, it's onto Wal-Mart's recent decision to ban certain men's magazines. In her mailbag, Susie has tips for a woman who fears she'll never have orgasm with her boyfriend the way she does when alone, offers advice to a man who claims he's happily married even though he's never had sex with his wife, and more.

Susie looks at a recent study of jealousy that turned up the same old ground - men get jealous about sexual infidelity and women get upset by emotional infidelity. Sure, it sounds nice and simple, but Susie says the differences aren't just biologically predetermined. Susie also takes a look at an unusual plan to increase the birth rate in Sweden. In her mailbag, Susie revisits her recent dis-invitation to speak in Minnesota and reads an email from a happily married woman who loves the (swinging) lifestyle.

According to the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology the G-spot is either a "gynecological UFO" or a complete myth. But Susie and her friend Rebecca Chalker (author of The Cliteral Truth) say sighting the G-spot (and more) aren't all that rare, you just have to know where to look. Then, Susie takes a look at an abstinence-based sex ed program called "Worth the Wait," which lays out the medical case for teenagers to not have sex. In the mailbag, a woman loving her open marriage.

Susie has finally found an age-old conflict Israeli Arabs and Jews can agree on - pornography. Susie is in the studio again with her old friend Carol Queen. Carol's the author of The Leather Daddy and the Femme and she's just about to hit the road with her one-woman act, Peep Show about her days working as an erotic dancer. Susie and Carol talk about the world of peep shows and walking the walk of their open relationships. Then, a listener wonders where he can learn more about transsexuals.

It's holiday time and Susie has two things on her mind. First, she's raving about the new movie Kinsey, the story of 20th-century sex researcher Alfred Kinsey. Susie says Kinsey's efforts to scientifically study sex are still the most extensive ever done and this new movie offers a glimpse at the moral and social objections his research raised at the time. Then, speaking of movies and holidays, Susie has her short list of favorite holiday movies.

Susie's just read the controversial book, Harmful to Minors by Judith Levine. Taking Levine's cue, Susie offers her six tips to help your children develop positive, sexual images of themselves. Then, in the second part of her interview with Staci Haines, the author of A Survivor's Guide to Sex, Staci talks about confronting her father and her organization, Generation Five. In her mailbag, Susie offers tips to a woman who wants to become the exhibitionist her husband desires.