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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.

Each week Susie answers a letter from a listener. Today's show puts the spotlight on our "Try This at Home" mailbag, in which a loyal listener writes that she was bothered by a recent show when Susie spoke about the best positions for sex - but only for heterosexuals. What about us lesbians? says our letter writer. Well, Susie has a lot of great advice for everyone, so today, here they are: tips for homosexuals.

Susie's in bed this week with her old friend, photographer Phyllis Christopher. Susie remembers the first time she received a package of S&M photos from an unknown woman in Buffalo, more than two decades ago. Phyllis talks about what inspires her, how she became a pioneer in capturing images of women's sexuality, and much more. Then, Susie and Phyllis take on a tough letter in the mailbag from a man who wants some advice on getting over the death of his loving and sexually adventurous partner.

Some people will go to great lengths to receive sexual satisfaction, but today, Susie brings you a story that goes beyond any kinky extremes. We're talking about getting aroused because of brain surgery. Yup, who knew that the electrodes inserted in your brain to control disorders like depression and Parkinson's can have an added sexy benefit? The Mind Hacks website tells of one women's erotic sensations.

Susie takes a fascinating and thorough look this week at the reporting by The New York Times's Kurt Eichenwald. You may remember Susie has found much of Eichenwald's reporting about child pornography to be very insincere and tabloidish. Two recent stories have raised even more questions for Susie and others about how Eichenwald is accessing child pornography Web sites, and, beyond that, what his reporting means in the real world where children are being abused and exploited.

Susie says there's a new twist to the disturbing (on many levels) expose the New York Times ran in early 2006 about the world of underage Internet porn. After many months sitting on damming evidence, the U.S. Justice Department has done nothing. Meantime, three high ranking government officials have been busted for participating in underage Internet porn. Coincidence? Susie doesn't think so. Then, in her mailbag, Susie gets a follow up letter from an adventurous young woman who's seeking the perfect

Last year Susie presented a show about herpes, and today she revisits this most prevalent STD. Let's go undercover and listen to "Herpes Confidential, Part 2". Susie will update us on the latest and cheapest drugs that keep the disease at bay.

Susie takes a look at some of the ways the Bush administration is spending its last months, including a big new federal porn bust. Yes, let's continue the war efforts with a new war on porn. Obscenity is at the heart of a suit brought against Evil Angel Productions, a film company that doesn't comply with Bush's faith-based values. The films in question depict female squirting, anal squirting, and enemas. Free speech and the first amendment will have to face their day in court again.

Susie starts off the show with some disturbing news from Indonesia. It looks like they are going backwards in time with the return of the once popular medieval way to curb sex - the Chastity Belt. In Jakarta, a massage parlor requires its female masseuses to wear padlocks across the zippers of their pants. Talk about providing a safe working environment! Critics don't want to lock up the women, but rather the male customers' hands to stop the sexual harassment. Then, what to-do if you discover porn on your lover's computer. Starting at the web site Divine Caroline, Susie looks at what steps to take or not to take to have a successful conversation about porn rather then having a fight.

It's two great sex writers, thinkers, activists and friends for the price of one! Susie's guest is Dan Savage, author of the syndicated weekly sex advice column, Savage Love and two books, The Commitment and The Kid, as well as editor of the Seattle weekly newspaper The Stranger. Susie and Dan talk about a recent personal ad scandal, the politics of tranny boys, Dan's statute of limitations on identifying as bisexual, open relationships, gay marriage, and much more.

Susie's been reading a midwife's blog recently, and she came across a topic you usually don't hear much about: How being obese changes a woman's vagina and sexual response. Then, Susie says a recent article on the science of sex left her wanting, but confirms that our body is usually a couple of steps ahead of our brains when it comes to desire. And, in the mailbag, Susie answers a letter from a woman whose partner has a strange way of asking for sex.

Susie says when an award-winning children's book was banned in some libraries for including the word "scrotum," she smelled rat, particularly since most librarians are front-line free-speech defenders. But, even more troubling to Susie is the persistent fear of teaching children the real names for body parts "down there." Then, Susie reads some of the winners from her recent "Most Outrageous Kiss" contest. And, in the mailbag, a woman wonders about the pleasures of a sex machine.

Susie's in the studio with Erica Jong, best known for her 1973 work Fear of Flying. Erica says she's gone from the "nurse or purse" scenario with older or much younger lovers, to seeing sex as a whole body experience. Then they talk about raising sexually strong girls and why Jane Austen would be chick-lit today. Finally, in the mailbag, Susie gets an earful about Christian domestic discipline.

In the second part of Susie's interview with journalist Debbie Nathan, Debbie talks about why so many people say they're addicted to porn, and she explains how she fell into this often strange line of work. Debbie also talks about her new book Pornography: A Groundwork Guide, which is the first book for young adults about the history, politics, effects, business practices, working conditions, genres, and future of porn.

Recently, Susie and other prominent sexperts got together online and blew off some steam. What were they discussing? Well it seems that many people who work in the sex industry are tired of being labeled as always "ready to put out". Susie reads from the blog Feministe and the article called "Taking the Erotic Out of Sexual Culture", which opened up a raucous debate about how people assume that, if you work in the sex industry, you're always horny.

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's entire show is dedicated to one very hot story. In "What Happened to That Girl" by Marie Lyn Bernard, two men track down their long-lost foster sister (and the object of their teenage lust) to find out what she's like now that she's a porn star. This story is a sneak peak at Susie's soon-to-be-released Best American Erotica 2007.

Susie takes a look into how black and inter-racial sex videos have evolved since the 1980s. The adult video boom thrives on bringing sexual secrets into America's bedrooms, capitalizing on taboo interests. With titles like Black Chicks Do It Better and In and Out of Africa, these fringe porn movies have presented themes that at the time seemed risky but soon became the norm. Susie did some investigative reporting about why racism penetrated the porn industry.

Susie is off this week, so she wants you to enjoy a show from the archives. In 2006, Susie watched a new gay-porn film called Cirque Noir. Sure, this one had beautiful men and lots of sex, but there was also surprise - a detachable penis.

Today's show addresses every new parent's concern: Will we ever have sex again? Do you feel like you're in a time warp with your baby or toddler, with no hope of romance returning? Well, worry no more. Susie gives advice to all parents. This is part of an interview Susie had with a super-cool parenting magazine called Haus Frau, edited by Nicole Chaison. The magazine focuses on real family challenges: head lice, traveling with kids, and (in the upcoming issue with Susie) sex.