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On this week's In Bed, Shulem Deen, author and narrator of All Who Do Not Return, describes abandoning a Hasidic cult in which, on his wedding night, he knew how to broker a real-estate deal in ancient Babylon - but didn't know the fundamentals of how babies get made.

Susie is under the weather this week but wants you to enjoy an episode from 2012, when she invited one of her favorite writers to join the show. Hanne Blank is the author of Straight: The Surprisingly Short History of Heterosexuality, in which she delves into the history of how hetro was created and marketed to people around the time of World War II. Susie and Hanne talk about heterosexuality being a middle-class notion, medical science and the understanding of sexuality, and if there really is a gay brain versus a straight brain.

Susie starts off today's show with a sexy topic: European accounting! Okay, if that doesn't turn you on, you're not alone - but Bloombergview.com reports that the European Union wants to cash in on prostitution, drugs, and other illicit businesses to help boost GDP. These "shadow economies" are being scrutinized and may be forced to join national statistical accounting systems. Susie looks at how the underground world, although illegal, may help these countries' overall numbers to look good on the books.

In the this-can't-be-true department, Susie has a real doozy: a guy who calls himself the Double Dick Dude who recently proved that, yes, he really does have two penises. The website Reddit.com features a online forum where unusual people answer questions from subscribers. Double Dick spent a few days there answering a lot of enquiries and quickly became a sensation. Really. Can you imagine? Susie reads some of the questions and responses, and thinks you will fall madly in love with our new Lord and Master.

America's latest sex scandal doesn't involve Republican lawmakers or children forced into prostitution. No, it's all about monster porn! You know, books that depict sexy encounters with bigfoot, serpents, aliens, or just about any potentially dangerous big dude. This is a fantasy genre that is bringing in the big bucks.

Today's show features a lot of talk about anal sex. Doesn't that sound sexy, raunchy, and good? But first Susie starts out looking at a new audiobook that's an erotic classic: The Marketplace by Laura Antoniou. Susie loves this book! The story is kind of a mash-up: The Story of O meets the smart girl who's into BDSM. This is going to get hot! Next, it's another edition of “Tell Me Your Sex Story”, in which we invite a “regular folks” listener into Susie's sexual confession booth to tell all about her or his sex life....

Spiritual, mindful, healing yoga has gotten some bad press recently. A guru teacher named John Friend has been accused of sexual impropriety with some students. Susie reads an article about this from The New York Times, and was intrigued to learn about the history of yoga. Part ancient tantric rites and part modern sweating and deep breathing, it sounds like just the thing to elevate and rev up everybody's libido. Susie also discusses the highs and lows of "doing" poppers....

Susie's recent experience as a Macworld Expo booth babe gave her a chance to meet some In Bed listeners. She heard tales of heart disease and distant libidos, seventy-year-olds burning up the sheets, and even bumped into some wayward Baptists. Then, Susie jumps for joy at NY Governor George Pataki's recent pardon of comedian Lenny Bruce and celebrates by reading excerpts of Paul Krassner's interviews with Bruce. In her mailbag, Susie explains Kegel exercises.

This week, Susie's talks with erotica writer Tsaurah Litzky. In Susie's Best American Erotica series, Tsaurah is one of the most prolific and popular authors. Tsaurah tells Susie how a nice Jewish girl from Canarsie discovered her sexual appetite and about how she gets her writing students to loosen up and write about s-e-x. In the mailbag, Susie offers a listener specific tips for successful online dating.

In a show from 2012, Susie looks at a common first-timers fear: What do virgins need to know about how sex "feels"? Susie has some online advice from her friend and sex expert Cory Silverberg. Next, in "Tell Me Your Sex Story", Susie talks with another willing listener who steps into her sexual confession booth. Meet "Louise", a 25-year-old sex industry worker. Louise has sex on camera at Kink.com and dances at The Lusty Lady. Susie and Louise talk about the best sex toys when performing, what it's like to have sex all day long, and what happens when your co-sex-worker falls for you.

From Susie's "Try This at Home" mailbag, we have a question from a Vassar College listener who read an article in the Huffington Post and wants to know if it's really true. "If anal sex is the latest craze on college campuses, how can I get some?"

Susie talks to Rachel Kramer Bussel about resistance porn, Monica Lewinsky, and her favorite buttercream for cupcakes and breasts.

Susie is outraged about the Steubenville, Ohio, rape case - two boys raped a drunk and unconscious 16-year-old girl at a party while other partygoers tweeted and Instagrammed photos of the attack. Susie reached out to Traci Lords - the actress and musician who gained notoriety as a teenage porn star - to get the Stubenville natives' reaction to the rape. And her thoughts about it are chilling.

Susie's been taking sex surveys, and the results have her thinking about what do we really mean when we say we want to get it on? Do we mean different things when we're talking about having sex with a familiar lover, a new "conquest" or by ourselves? Susie has her answers, and she wants to know yours too! Then, in her ongoing review of the year in sex, Susie looks at some of the political sex scandals of 2006 and how the Republicans ended up paying at the polls for their closeted and hypocritical sex.

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!

Today, Susie reflects on the life and influence of Marilyn Chambers, who recently passed away. Marilyn Chambers made a name for herself in the 1970s when she was an X-rated movie star, as well as the wholesome face featured on boxes of Ivory Snow laundry detergent. Marilyn was more than just a porn star; she was a true star and a sexual icon. Susie has many memories of why Marilyn stood apart in the sex industry.

This week's show starts off with a shocking idea: a married couple decides to have sex every night for a year! Susie reveals the details behind what was a very special birthday gift. An upcoming book, 365 Nights: A Memoir of Intimacy, chronicles the story of a wife's offer of daily sex and how it changed and brought lust back into her relationship with her husband.

Susie is outraged to hear that a middle school in Illinois has banned hugging, and she reviews a new book, 101 Nights of Grrreat Sex. She tried some of the secret seductions offered to perk up your sex life, and after the first game, her partner gave this book a big thumbs up.

Have you been invited to a Pleasureware Party? It's a takeoff on the old-fashioned buy-it-at-home Tupperware Parties, where women showed you amazing plastic containers that made kitchen life better. But with Pleasureware, the parties have moved into the bedroom, and the items are intended to make your sex life sizzle.

Susie spends the entire show with her guest Daniel Bergner. His just-released book What Do Women Want? is on the New York Times best-seller list. The book is subtitled Adventures in the Science of Female Desire and it disrupts the typical idea that women are more monogamous then men. His research looks at women's desire and arousal, and he turns the tables on conventional thought. Susie and Daniel talk about why women aren't seen as animalistic, whether research takes into consideration sexual politics, and female erotic fantasy and lust.