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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?"

Can we ever have too much sex? Can we ever love someone too much? On today's show, Susie discusses what marks the difference between healthy and addictive love. She speaks with author Rachel Resnick about her new book Love Junkie: A Memoir.

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.

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!

Sex, drugs, and rock-and-roll is a way of life that many of us dream about - and the ultimate fantasy for some. Today, Susie starts the show off by interviewing R. U. Sirius, the author of a new book: Everybody Must Get Stoned: Rock Stars on Drugs. Get ready to hear the dirt on Mick Jagger, Bob Dylan, Ted Nugent, and more. Susie talks with Sirius about which drugs are best for having great sex, which drugs are the most popular, and which drugs we should all avoid.

In part 2 of an interview with sexual theorist and therapist Dr. Leonore Tiefer, Susie and Leonore discuss the differences between sexual addiction, sexual compulsion, and obsession. They also look at what it takes to be an effective sex coach. Tiefer's feminist theories inform her findings on why people have more sexual apprehensions today, which has lead to a boom for the pharmaceutical industry.

Susie turns up the heat today as she names her favorite sexy Hollywood movies. After hearing her list, you're going to run for the DVD player and then into the bedroom. Susie takes a look at many factors that bring on the sizzle, from the actors' sex appeal to their downright ability to get dirty. Susie looks at many different types of films, from the classic film noir style to S&M. Where's my popcorn!

Here at In Bed, we delight in bringing you conversations about sex that you won't hear anywhere else. Today, Susie finds a topic that will get us all thinking about orgasm differently. How does a transgendered woman deal with her new vaginal orgasm versus the past penis pleasuring?

Have you ever wondered if you had only two sex toys to use, which ones would be the best? Well, this week Susie helps us all out with a review of some of the most popular libido enhancers on the market: toys are from BabeLand. They are sure to surprise you. Who knew a simple curved piece of metal could cause uncontrollable orgasms? And wait until you hear what's new for the guys! It involves wrapping his penis in a soft, silky sleeve.

Susie's guest this week is Ariel Levy, a contributing editor at New York<.i> magazine and the author of the controversial new book, Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture. In this fascinating and funny interview, 30-year-old Ariel and Susie talk about what people (mis)take for sexy these days and what it all means when feminism goes the way of most revolutions and is co-opted by they mainstream culture. Then, in the mailbag, a recently divorce man gets all bondage, no orgasm.