Showing results by author "Susie Bright" in All Categories

Today's show features vibrators, orgies - and hickeys. Susie introduces a story by one of her favorite authors, Greta Christina, who wrote about what she learned at her first orgy. Susie reads the steamy stuff about the actual orgy, but it's the revelations in the lessons learned from that day that are juicier.

Susie's guest this week is Laura Kipnis, author of The Female Thing: Dirt, Sex, Envy, Vulnerability and, previously, Against Love. Laura Kipnis says women today are deeply conflicted about what it means to be female. With most advice based on helping women obtain what they "lack," Laura says women now spend inordinate amounts of time keeping themselves and their houses clean.

In today's show, Susie reads from True Porn Clerk Stories a blog created by Ali Davis. The surprising details of this job are that- there is so much more to it than just swiping bar codes. Not only does our heroine check out the videos, she is expected to check out the customers as they peruse the aisles. A few too many shoppers, while looking at the racy cover photos, have a tendency to get physical with themselves right there in the store. Imagine the clean up on aisle three!

In this week's Front Page, Susie welcomes the new year with her look at 21st century sex: the effects of Viagra and Prozac on both brains and libidos; Internet love connections; watered down porn; and the challenges before President Bush. In Books and Movies About Sex, Susie reads one of her favorite erotic stories, "The Agent" by Jess Wells from The Best American Erotica Series 2000. In her Try this at Home Mailbag, Susie reveals the delights of breast milk for one listener.

Susie is taking a look back at two of the worst sex stories of 2004. First, Susie says it's time to think about AIDS as women's problem, not the gay problem everyone likes to think it is. Then, Susie talks about the blatant lies kids are being told about sex as part of the abstinence education programs in public schools. Then, in the mailbag, Susie points a listener in the direction of some sexy reading material.

In this week's Front Page, Susie discusses the effects of the Viagra ad campaign on young men's libidos and their insecurities. You'll also hear a review of Philip Kaufman's Quills and sage advice on an age-old topic: "How do I become a porn star?"

Today's show looks at three outcomes of sex. Does having sex promote happiness? Is prostitution really forced on women? And what happens to a wife who is denied sex? First off, Susie looks at how America has become the gosh-darn happy-face nation when confronted with personal illness. Susie reads from an article published in Psychology Today by author Ariel Gore, who kept a journal to track what conditions made her happy. Susie wonders how sex figures into that equation.

Susie is off this week and wants you to enjoy a show from 2005. Get out the eggnog; it's Susie's Christmas special.

Susie jumps into a hot-button item on today's show. Susie says that sex addiction doesn't exist! Get ready for a fistfight. After a recent posting on Facebook, the debate by all the friends was fierce from both sides of the issue.

In this week's front page, Susie's tells you why she thinks the sex in the hit TV show Sex and the City is so bad as well as what TV characters she thinks have the right attitude about sex (think Cartman and Elaine). Plus, Susie introduces her semi-regular reading of a favorite erotic bedtime story and the question of limo services for the exhibitionist couple.

Imagine a place that exists for the sole purpose of providing sexual pleasure for women. Is this a crazy episode of Star Trek? No, it's a San Francisco-based organization, recently in the news, called One Taste.

Today we feature an interview with a man whose job it is to pleasure women. Imagine what fun it might be to be a vibrator designer. Here's a man who needs to know his product is not only functional but sensational in all respects. Susie talks with Ethan Imboden, the founder and chief creative behind Jimmyjane, a company that believes "naughty is nice, sexy is smart, and pleasure is in the details." They talk about sex-toy designs, electric versus battery power, and vibrator aesthetics.

Is the American work ethic ruining our sex lives? Susie has thought so for years, and now she gets to pose her question to economist Doug Henwood. Doug Henwood is the editor and publisher of The Left Business Observer, a contributor to The Nation, and the host of a weekly radio show on WBAI in New York. Susie and Doug talk about work ethics, marriage incentives, and why economists just seem to miss the sex part of any equation.

Susie responds to a long letter from a listener who talks about his very successful three-way sexual encounters. We'll learn some of his secrets to finding the hottest partners, best places, and most exciting holidays for trying group sex!

Susie just returned from her East Coast book tour, where she found New Englanders' puritanical stoicism fascinating. While Bostonians tout Harvard and old world academia, it's also the city that has the highest concentration of erotica writers. Susie tells us about her talk in the historical Old South Meeting House and her travels up to Portland, Maine, where she delivered one bookstore's first-ever erotic book reading. Those cold winter nights got a little warmer, thanks to Susie!

Susie is off this week but wants you to enjoy a show from 2007 in which she talks about her favorite body parts. First, she's once again amazed at the closed-mindedness of some school administrators, as three high-school students were suspended for saying the word "vagina" during a production of The Vagina Monologues.

Asexuals, bachelors, and hookers have the spotlight on today's show. Susie answers a question from a listener who wants to know if there is an unspoken etiquette for Lot Lizard's at the local truckstop: "How can I be sure the prostitute is legit?"

Political sex scandals are not slowing down. Susie uncovers yet another GOP state rep who showed his hypocritical true self: he preached for anti-gay legislation even as he stepped out with a male prostitute. And hang on as Susie explains and gives a tutorial on the details of bareback sex.

Extra, extra, read all about it: threesomes are making a comeback. The New York Post featured the recent headline "Menage a trios goes Mainstream". Is the once-considered-too-kinky three-way sexual encounter now becoming commonplace? Your neighbors and friends may be a lot wilder then you know!

In this week's Front Page, Susie responds to numerous inaccuracies and assumptions she found in a recent article written by Martin Amis about the porn industry. In her Books and Movies About Sex, Susie reads another of her favorite bedtime stories, "When the Student is Ready" by Claire Tristram. In her Try This at Home mailbag, Susie answers a question from a man who's upset his sexual fantasies are too deviant. Don't forget, you can write to Susie at susie@audible.com!