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Teenagers are having less sex these days, and teen pregnancy is down. This all sounds pretty good, right? Susie begs to differ and looks at the real reasons behind the statistics. A recent article by Amy T. Schalet in The New York Times got Susie thinking about what's changed for boys. What role has religion, abstinence-based sex education, and Internet pornography played in boys wanting love, not just sex?

On her Front Page Susie reviews and read excerpts from Joani Blank's latest book, Still Doing It: Sex after Sixty. Susie talks about her own interest in how sexual ability and experience change with aging. In Media Whore, Susie looks at Bust magazine and why it's different from other women's magazines. And, in her Try this at Home Mailbag, Susie answers a question from a woman who's spending a year in Europe and needs advice on telling her lovers she has herpes.

Susie tackles one of the stranger trends in sex these days: women who say they become virgins - again - before their wedding day. The chaste movement is sweeping the Bible Belt, but is it just elaborate foreplay or a way for grooms who desire pristine Southern Belles to have their cake and eat it too? Susie also welcomes the newest version of the "Morning (Make that 72 Hours) After" pill, aptly named "Plan B." And, in her mailbag, where's an eager student of sex to go to get the formal schooling he desires?

The bulk of this week's show is dedicated to a recent article that recently appeared in the New York Times called "Long After Kinsey, Only the Brave Study Sex" by Benedict Carey. Carey's article outlines why so much of sex research in the U.S. is still kept completely covert or remains unfunded. Then, Susie wants to share a new favorite website: www.liegirls.com. In her mailbag, Susie hears from a 65-year-old man who is wondering about his shoe fetish.

[Contains explicit content] Susie recalls the life and work of one of her biggest intellectual influences - feminist writer, teacher, and activist Ann Snitow - and reads an excerpt from her paper, "Mass Market Romance: Pornography Is Different for Women". And then, "New on Audible": Margaret Atwood's Life Before Man, a sophisticated meditation on non-monogamy and marriage.

Susie is perplexed today over some strange legislation in the Sunshine State. It seems that although marijuana and bongs are prohibited, it's still okay to get down with a goat, a dog or any animal you choose. Why does Florida permit bestiality?

[Contains explicit content] Susie brings you the first of a two-part interview with author Jillian Lauren, whose book Some Girls - My Life in a Harem took the media by storm. Who knew that the family of the sultan of Brunei still hosted exotic households of 40 women and lived the lifestyle of a prince from Arabian Nights?

On this week's In Bed, Susie looks at the state of today's porn industry - which looks nothing like it did 10 years ago. For one thing, it's based in the US…and for another, professional porn stars are all but nonexistent. The top porn fantasy is porn of an extinct era.

Which camp are you in when it comes to shaving? One side says furry bush and underarm hair is so sexy, while purists say give me bald pubs and smooth legs! The age-old battle is up for discussion on today's show. Susie looks at a recent article in The New York Times that featured pics of some Hollywood celebs, showing them to be with the unshaven crowd. The red carpet has seen a lot of fashion choices, but this look has really turned some heads.

In today show, we take a look at autofellatio. Writer Jesse Bering's article in Slate ("So Close, and Yet So Far Away: The contorted history of autofellatio") has Susie wondering what this kind of acrobatic self-pleasure would feel like….

Does the term "forcible rape" make your head spin sideways? Why is sexual sadism the new black in US politics? Susie delves into that issue this week - and she is spitting mad. In our current political arena, there's a new kind of pervert: the lawmaker who's a sadistic, vicious psycho who isn't afraid to defend his position. He feels entitled and proud of it. Outrageous! Susie reads from an article in The New Yorker called "The Legitimate Children of Rape".

On this week's In Bed, Susie talks about a London-based company called Killing Kittens and its unusual boast: that it provides events for "the world's sexual elite". Jenna Sauers wrote an article in Marie Claire about just such a gathering in Long Island's exclusive Hamptons. Fifty guests were invited to a mansion on the beach for potential swinging and sexcapades. But what actually happened.... Well, Susie thinks this party was way too tame.

Susie is a judge in a contest that decides which politicians were the year's "best" purveyors of public corruption, outlandish behavior, and betrayals of the public trust. This annual awards ceremony, sponsored by Talking Points Memo, is called the Golden Dukes, in honor of former US Representative Randy "Duke" Cunningham, who epitomizes the iconic modern scandal. This year brings a bumper crop of crazy and unethical behavior by so many lawmaker "contestants" that the judges had a hard time picking who was the worst with so many to choose from.

Susie begins today's show with a tribute to the late author and journalist Christopher Hitchens. Over a long career he was a regular columnist for Vanity Fair, The Atlantic, and Slate. Susie found his writing and views on bisexuality to be unparalleled.

Susie discusses the grinding backslide in abortion rights since the Trump administration has come into power. Then, it's "New on Audible": Dare to Stay: A Puppy Love Romance is the latest romance for animal lovers.

In this episode, Susie looks at a sex shop's dildo nativity scene that has the local church in a tizzy. Next, naughty Scottish Gaelic verse is fleshing out a literary history long overlooked. Plus hot Mike Pence is raising money for Planned Parenthood. And finally, from the mailbag: Is there a guide to sex just for teens?

Those crazy American evangelicals are at it again. Always trying to tell everybody else what to do, they've now decided to save Chinese teenagers from becoming sinners. Yes, it's true, the abstinence program heads to Beijing! Well, Susie has a few words to say about all this. It seems that the Focus on the Family group is behind trying to convert the entire planet to "just say no" to sex before wedlock.

On this week's In Bed, Susie talks to silent-movie guru Laura Horak, who critiqued hundreds of women actors cross-dressing in the golden age - and came to surprising conclusions and about what it means to gender-savvy audiences today. Then, it's "New on Audible". Memphis Noir, is a wet, dirty, and sexy exploration of crime and class in the Mississippi Delta.

What do you get when you combine ball-busting feminists, the patriarchy, and a sexy Halloween? The scariest haunting of them all! Susie went to the best haunted-house ever, featuring gender-queer apparitions, ball-busting butchers, riot ghouls, and radical vampiric grannies. The show is the brainchild of artists Deirdre Logue and Allyson Mitchell, who wanted to "pervert, not convert" all the sinners who love scary, nightmarish fun.

Today's show is a primer for spicing up your sex life. Susie takes us from how to participate in a kinky, successful three-way to the opposite extreme of achieving orgasm in the missionary position. Then, Susie responds to a listener who really, really wants help with having an orgasm.