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Susie begins today's show with a look into a bizarre spectacle: the subplot surrounding Miss USA and Miss California. This story has gay secrets, missing breast implants, biblical quotations and topless Internet pictures. The recent Miss California finalist, Carrie Prejean, seems to be leading a double life.

Susie's guest this week is Ian Kerner, the best selling author of Be Honest - You're Not that Into Him Either and She Comes First. With years of personal and clinical experience between them, Susie and Ian debate the sexual dilemmas facing women and men these days - everything from dating, marriage, porn, and much, much more. Then, Susie and Ian tackle a mailbag question from a woman who says she feels like her sex life is just one big performance.

You'd think that the U.S. Department of Justice might have better things to do with their time these days, but Alberto Gonzales et al have recently initiated several busts of porn-related Web sites. And, if the investigation itself wasn't baffling enough, the sites they've targeted don't make legal sense. This week, Susie takes a look at some of the targeted sites. Then, in the Try This at Home mailbag, Susie helps a listener put the pieces back together after the perfect three-way blows up.

This week, Susie takes a look at the surprising sexual politics of the governors in Alaska and South Carolina. Susie discusses "caribou Barbie", who said "I quit", as well as the lovesick southern Bubba who said, "I'm staying" - even though many want him out. Susie has some unusual takes on why these two leaders find themselves in such freakish situations.

Today's show starts off with a serious look at the connection between dominance and pleasure. S&M followers understand and willingly participate in erotic role playing, but what about those military men and women involved in torturing prisoners? Are they sexual sadists too? Susie talks about how the military's torture training changed a friend from peace lover to aggressive dominator. And what does this all say about Abu Ghraib? Next, Susie reviews the reviews: what are the best positions for sex?

It's every parent's nightmare: talking about sex with your teenager. Susie and her daughter are beyond that scary conversation; instead they recently had the chance to together give out sexual advice on the popular blog Jezebel.

Susie speaks with the DC Madam, Deborah Jeane Palfrey. Palfrey's escort business called Pamela Martin Services made the headlines after being busted by the US Government. Palfrey alleged that her clients included many Beltway personalities, including the State Department official Randall L. Tobias who then resigned after admitting he used her service. Deborah Jeane tells Susie about her teenage years, how she coached her working girls to be safe, and why she still believes in love.

Susie Bright, the host of In Bed with Susie Bright, wants to read you some of her favorite dirty stories. In this collection of eight stories, you'll hear reminiscences of sex past from Tsuarah Litsky, in transit encounters from Nell Carberry, an updated Beauty and the Beast tale from Claire Tristram, as well as stories from Jess Wells, Alma Marceau, and Ernie Conrick. Almost all of these stories originally appeared in the annual Best American Erotica collection, edited by Susie Bright.

Today, Susie looks at sex workers who inject drugs. That's two taboos rolled into one! Susie reads an article from a blog that interviewed both men and women escorts about their drug use. This very frank and honest discussion will debunk some stereotypical thinking - for example that it's having to engage in sex for a living that turns people into addicts. They say no. They don't mind the sex work; it's just that they like drugs. This in-depth article covers brothels, self-medication, Johns who pay with drugs instead of cash, alcohol abuse, and sex workers' rights.

Susie has a New Year's resolution list like nothing you've seen before. Forget about losing weight or being nicer to your mother-in-law. Her list is about SEX. Susie shows us how to be more erotic, have better fantasies, and to allow your sensuous side to have fun. Let's ring in a healthy sexy New Year.

What is the evolutionary purpose of a woman's orgasm? On today's show, Susie ponders this question and looks at a wired.com article that called the female O a "mystery". If an orgasm isn't necessary to procreate, why does it exist biologically? Men need an orgasm to produce semen, so the science makes sense, but what about women? Is the fairer sex entitled to pleasure just for a bonus, for fun and feeling good? So many questions… but here comes Susie to the rescue.

Susie's guest is Jen Sincero, author of the hilarious and wise The Straight Girls' Guide to Sleeping with Chicks. Jen and Susie share notes on the thrills of sleeping with women and offer tips on how you too can make your sexual fantasies a reality. Then, in the mailbag, Jen Sincero sticks around to help Susie with a letter from a man who says he'd do just about anything to help his wife get in touch with her sexual fantasies.

Susie celebrated the very start of 2007 by putting winning a wet T-shirt contest: her first! Then, when Susie looks back on 2006, she says one of the biggest sex stories was Britney Spears flashing herself for the world to see. Susie says the whole phenomenon is remarkable, but mostly because people don't even know, or want to know, what they're looking at. Then, in the mailbag, Susie offers some advice to a woman who worries her boyfriend will be grossed out when he goes down on her.

Susie's news item this week is from Spotsylvania, Virginia where the sheriff recently announced his detectives could no longer receive sexual services on the job. Then, it's an expanded mailbag with two letters. The first is from a woman whose sex life is drying up just three months into a new relationship. The second letter is from a young woman who wonders if she really is as bisexual as she feels and why are all of her friends acting grossed out by anal sex.

Susie's talking this week with her old friend and physician, Flash Gordon, MD. Susie asks Flash: How do recreational drugs affect sexual performance? What can you do to make prostate exams easier? How does menopause affect sexual desire? And, what's do you really see in the ER? Also, Susie recommends a classic example of corset-porn, Autobiography of a Flea. And, in her mailbag, Susie and Dr. Flash respond to a woman whose husband's desire to give her multiple orgasms is causing her pain.

[Contains explicit content] Susie wants to share a special show from 2004, with her special guest, her dad. In his second appearance on In Bed, linguist Bill Bright talks about his book Native American Place Names in the United States. He explains why you shouldn't call either a Native American woman or a mountain top "squaw" and gives the fascinating secret sex history of many common place names. Then, in her mailbag, Susie explains the giggles and guffaws of tickling fetishes.

[Contains explicit content] Susie has an inmate conversation with author Juan F. Thompson, son of gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson. Susie was a friend of Hunter's. Juan was the one person Hunter trusted completely. They discuss the nitty-gritty of Hunter's writing struggles, his sexual point of view, what being a man in full meant to him, and living up to a mythic, impossible reputation.

[Contains explicit content] Susie starts off by recalling the glory days of Good Vibrations, the revolutionary women's vibrator store. Next, an interview from 2007 with legendary women's masturbation teacher and author Betty Dodson. Susie and Betty discuss the G-Spot, intergenerational sex, and what it was like when Mom asked her about her clitoris. Then, Susie reads a letter from a young woman who describes her kinky road to coming of age.

[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.