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Can we ever have too much sex? Can we ever love someone too much? On today's show, Susie discusses the difference between healthy and addictive love. She speaks with author Rachel Resnick about her book Love Junkie: A Memoir, which lists three red flags that may indicate someone is a love addict. Do you have one destructive relationship after another? When you fall in love, do you let all the other parts of your life go to hell? Do your relationships ruin your wallet, your friends, and your own peace of mind? Yikes, everyone can learn something from this discussion.

Susie is off this week,but has a great encore show for you. She speaks with sex educator Cory Silverberg about his new book for kids: What Makes a Baby? Susie says this is a must-have for every sex-positive family. Cory's book discusses the "where do we come from" question, and he doesn't give the usual mom-and-dad or bible story. Susie and Cory talk about why most kids' books take the sugary syrupy approach to talking about sex, and they look at what kinds of families are ready for early sex education.

Suzy is going to blow your mind this Christmas as she reveals the real origins of the holiday. Santa likes sex and drugs and Rock and Roll!

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.

Susie introduces one of her new favorite erotic writers, Cara Bruce, by reading Cara's very sexy story, "You Know What?," about a peep show girl who gets an eyeful when a beautiful woman challenges her to an erotic duel. Susie also reports on her recent erotic writing workshop at the famous Esalen institute. And, in her Try This at Home mailbag, Susie lays out her four spending plans - the Republican, the Liberal, the Orgasmic, and the Paranoid - for her $300 George W. Bush tax refund.

This week we present the birth of a blue-movie critic. It's a look into how Susie went from being what Roger Ebert called an "innocent lesbian virgin" to the Pauline Kael of porn. She tells us about being hired by Penthouse Forum to write a pocket-sized journal focusing on sexy words rather than sexy pictures as she reviewed X-rated films. Our young Susie got a first-hand look into the world of porn movies, and oh what stories she has to tell!

Susie celebrates her 50th birthday this week. In honor of the big event, she starts off this week's show by looking at a book called Fifty Things to Do When You Turn Fifty, edited by Ronnie Sellers. The book features suggestions from all sorts of interesting people, and Susie has a blast reading some of the experts' advice. For example, throw yourself a slow dance party. (Isn't that a sexy idea?)

On today's show, Susie looks at a common first-timer's fear: What does a virgin need to know about how sex "feels" versus how masturbation feels? Seems like some very worried newbies have performance anxiety about their first encounter. That's a good thing, says Susie, and she has some advice that her friend, sex expert Cory Silverberg, recently offered on About.com.sex: Keep exploring on your own. Having sex with yourself is a great warm-up act that can really prepare you. The bottom line is that masturbation is great and can help you find some great moves too!

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?

It's that time again: time to look at sex in the movies from 2011. Susie finds that Hollywood had a mostly celibate year. So what happened? Susie thinks the mainstream left all the good, juicy stuff to porn and indie filmmakers. But she remembers a few great scenes from last year that involved Ryan Gosling and his incredible abs, and Kristen Dunst baring it all. Now that was hot!

It's part two of Susie's interview with feminist author Katha Pollitt. Pollitt's been writing about feminism for decades and is perhaps best known for her Nation magazine column "Subject to Debate". Susie and Katha talk about abortion and how abortion clinics are full of judgmental women. Why do women need to feel so bad when abortion is legal?

In today's show, three episodes: Susie remembers the man who battled against the prudes, she talks with a real live rocket scientist, and she reveals the anatomy of a vagina.

[Contains explicit content] Susie talks about taboos and fantasies, and what to do when race is part of the equation. Then it's "New on Audible": Minka Kent's The Memory Watcher is the sexy, whiplash-inducing thriller that's now topping the Bright List.

[Contains explicit content] Susie looks at how bicycles helped usher in a new sexual freedom for women in the 1800s. Next, a record number of Americans aren't having sex. Is the species doomed or are the surveys all smoke and mirrors?

On this week's In Bed, Susie talks to author Victoria Bynum. Her book The Free State of Jones turns the narrative of slavery and rebellion in the South on its ear, and explores the legacy of miscegenation still being worked out today. It was made into a major motion picture starring Matthew McConaughey, which will be released in June.

The porn police have raided their own jail cells! That's right; prisoners are losing the privilege of subscribing to adult magazines like Playboy or Hustler. What's all the fuss? asks Susie. Is porn really a problem in correctional institutions? It is in the state of Connecticut, or so they say - a new ban is set to limit porn by not allowing prisoners to receive such photos or magazines. But literary porn in books is still okay. Susie says they've got it all wrong!

Susie's guest this week is former Penthouse editor, Lavada Nahon. Lavada reveals the truth behind some of the magazine's best-known columns, including Penthouse Letters. She also talks about some of her own sexual and personal awakenings while at Penthouse, including a sex scandal that hit a bit too close to home. Susie and Lavada worked together on an erotic collection called Between the Sheets, which is available at audible.com®.

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] Susie remembers her impressions of Amsterdam’s endangered Red Light District. Then, New on Audible, Charles Willeford’s Sideswipe, a Hoke Mosely novel, is everything you want in a detective novel: great characters, humor, and bodies everywhere. At last on Audible.

On this week's In Bed, Susie takes a look at the new book Scary Old Sex by Arlene Heymen. This new short-story collection gets into the intimate details of sex after 60. Next, it's invasion of the hens! Provincetown gay bars are being overrun by bachelorettes.