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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....

Susie asked listeners to send in ideas for topics she should cover as she writes a story about sex for AARP. What is important to talk about regarding sex for the over-50 crowd? The response was overwhelming; you all had much to say, and Susie highlights one listener's letter.

Ever lived in an apartment building where the walls are paper thin and you can hear your neighbors' every word? Imagine if they have a robust love life that includes plenty of vocals! Susie examines a situation involving a neighbor who gets so fed up that a sex war strategy emerges - and backfires. You won't believe the tactics used on apartment 517.

This week, Susie responds to her overflowing mailbag of listeners' questions. Usually, we tackle one question per show, but today we're playing catch up as we hear from five people looking for advice from Susie. The topics vary from female ejaculation and vaginal health to how getting a massage can lead to getting it on.

[Contains explicit content] Susie finds Victorian love in the form of a Sapphic literary couple and their successful masculine nom de plume.

Remember Penthouse magazine? Back in the day, they featured the first-ever porn movie critic who was a female, feminist, and independent reporter. Guess who? That's right, it was Susie! And she's publishing a new book called Susie Bright's Erotic Screen The book features interviews and articles from her time at Penthouse. Today, Susie reads from one of the chapters featuring the legendary Russ Meyer.

Susie's happy Brits can finally see what's behind the green door. The British Board of Film Classification is allowing explicit pornography into the country for the first time. Then, Susie talks with writer Jane DeLynn, the author of one of Susie's earliest erotic favorites, Some Do, as well as Don Juan in the Village, and most recently, Leash. Susie and Jane debate the existence of "lesbian bed death" and whether you can will yourself to like being a bottom. Then, should jocks shave?

In this week's show, we travel into cyberspace to take a look at an online project that is asking men to talk about their experiences with prostitutes. Letters from Johns has real responses from regular guys who divulge the reasons why they buy sex. Susie reads some of the anonymous letters and has her own ideas about why these guys find paid sex so hot.

Susie has some valuable advice for President-elect Obama, and today she lays it all out for you to hear. She's getting ready in case she gets tapped for one of the upcoming cabinet positions, especially the one of Sex Czar. Susie has a lot to say about how the new administration can promote a sex-positive nation, rather than Bush's fear-based policies.

Susie is off this week but she wants to share a great interview from 2007 she had with legendary women's masturbation teacher and author Betty Dodson. The then 78 year old first made headlines back in 1974 with her book Liberating Masturbation.

This week, Susie focuses on "amoebas," people who don't have any sex drive and don't want to apologize for it. Susie shares interviews from listeners who have vaguely amoeba-like characteristics, but all for very different reasons. Also, in the "Try This At Home" mailbag, a married man who loves sex can't understand his wife's extremely low sex drive.

One of Susie's favorite writers, Ellen Willis, died earlier this month. Willis was the first pop-music critic for The New Yorker, and wrote regularly about music for Rolling Stone, The Village Voice, and more. From why feminists against pornography had it all wrong to why the first President Bush's war on drugs was misguided, Willis fearlessly faced tough social issues and Susie loved her for it.

In Part 2 of another New York City interview with porn-film historian and scholar Jeffery Escoffier, Susie and her guest have a wild discussion about gay film secrets. They cover everything from why straight male porn stars must enjoy gay sex, to double penetration how-to tips, to why exhibitionists get ahead in the film industry, and finally to condom or not to condom.

In "Jodi K", by Jill Soloway, the award-winning writer/producer of Six Feet Under, a suburban teenager is a skeptical part of every high school make-out scene, but her heart is fixed on the middle-aged man next door.

[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 sounds the death knell for the old internet, which prized creative and uncensored expression. When it comes to cultural erasure, Tumblr's new porn ban is just a drop in the bucket. Next, would you use a molded dildo of an ex's penis with a new lover? What would Emily Post have to say?

[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.

[Contains explicit content] Susie tells the story of a Arkansas woman who cared for abandoned AIDS patients and buried them, by hand, in her family's plot. And from the mailbag, a listener writes to say she's married and alone. Susie says she's not alone.

[Contains explicit content] Susie looks at Paul Manafort's daughter's text messages and finds what we all knew all along: The far right is obsessed with bullying, race, and cuckolding. Next, the dangerous act of fellatio and how to not end up in the hospital. And finally, from the vaults of "thus it ever was", Steven Saylor's hard-boiled Gordianus the Finder wearily battles corruption in ancient Rome.

[Contains explicit content] Susie asks why Amazon is stashing its sexy books under the mattress.