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[Contains explicit content] Susie talks with best-selling author Christopher Ryan about his book Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality. This is an anthropologic look into myths versus sexual realities. Christopher and Susie discuss whether jealousy is an animalistic urge or if it can be controlled; how far back monogamy goes in the species; and why so many marriages are dysfunctional. They even bring Darwin into the bedroom.

Contains explicit content] Susie celebrates Ireland's landslide victory for sexual freedom and women's rights. Being there was like visiting another planet compared to the US. Next, why do we love the sexual politics of The Americans? There's a lot to see here. And finally, it's "New on Audible": Meg Worlitzer's The Female Persuasion is a hyper-realistic look at the generational divide between second-wave and post-wave feminists.

Today's show starts off with a conundrum: If you're into S&M, is there such a thing as too much pain? Susie reads an article written by sexpert Greta Christina that talks about masochist extremes. Next, it's "Tell Me Your Sex Story". Susie asks a listener some nosy sexual questions that are none of her business but that we all want to hear about anyway.

[Contains explicit content] Susie offers a reminder for sex educators that sex with a condom is not always possible - and people need to be able to talk about it. Next, she wonders whether "twinks" are really having a moment. And finally, a woman feels empty inside now that she's had sex for the first time.

[Contains explicit content] Susie explores proposed sexual equality for involuntary celibates - and as you might guess, equality does not apply to women. Next, some charter schools in Chicago would rather make menstruating young women wrap a sweatshirt around their waist than let them use the bathroom.

[Contains explicit content] Susie finds out that just one guy is responsible for all the sea monster porn. Next, women are letting their fantasies loose on Tumblr fan sites - and it looks nothing like chocolates and flowers. And finally, Russian religious groups are trying to censor a historical drama, because it shows sex with a future saint.

[Contains explicit content] Susie talks to the legendary novelist Blanche McCrary Boyd about her new novel The Tomb of the Unknown Racist. Susie asks about the sex-obsessed roots of white nationalisms and catches up with McCrary Boyd's famous lesbian separatist character Ellen Burns.

[Contains explicit content] Susie interviews one of today's most popular porn stars, Asa Akira. Asa has been working in the adult entertainment business and has accrued many awards for her film work. She's won for best anal scene, best double penetration scene, and best all-girl three-way sex scene, at the AVN award show. She's also been named best porn star of the year and has appeared in over 400 adult films.

[Contains explicit content] Susie talks guns, revolution, and sex. When Trump supporters start bandying about conspiracy theories that Parkland students are paid actors, Susie recalls being a teenage organizer sleeping with shotgun protection. Next, how can Florida declare porn a public health risk, while the state's gunned-down children are being buried?

[Contains explicit content] Susie interviews the brilliant anthropologist author who cracked kink - Katharine Gates - on deviant desires, technology, and dead baby bunnies. Don't get her started! Ooops, too late.... Her seminal work on kink communities, Deviant Desires, has been released in a whole new edition that never fails to surprise.

[Contains explicit content] Susie remembers David Hurles. The filmmaker and photographer behind Old Reliable was one of the great auteurs, ready to die for his art.

[Contains explicit content] Susie remembers when she met Nan Parks of the San Francisco Bay Times and invited her to ask everything she wanted to know about lesbian sex. The results are magic. Then, it's "New on Audible": Charles Bukowski's Tales of Ordinary Madness has been nominated for an Audie because as one reviewer writes, "Patton NAILS it."

[Contains explicit content] Susie looks at the ways the US Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) is using irrefutably legal sex behavior to facilitate linked deportations. Next, the return of the DIY abortion. Even in liberal California, economic and social divisions can make a home abortion look like the best option.

[Contains explicit content] Susie hands out the Golden Duke awards for the most infamous news stories of 2017 - and in a year awash with scandal and scurrilous politicians, it was tough.

[Contains explicit content] Susie looks at the change in attitude law enforcement in Fresno is taking toward teenaged sex workers. Next, when your job is sex, is enthusiastic consent too much to ask?

[Contains explicit content] Susie talks to Hallie Lieberman about her fun, surprising, and long history of sex toys "buzz".

[Contains explicit content] Susie digs in to some of the issues needing to be addressed in the sex-work industry: health, labor, respect. First, the physical endurances of working in porn rival the NFL - only without the pension. Next, how a little something called "plaçage" informs the most fraught of interracial escort relationships.

[Contains explicit content] Stormy Daniels and Trump: All the hush money in the world can't make him a virtuous man. Next, Margaret Atwood gets called out for suggesting we fix due process. And finally, Susie discusses office etiquette for conscientious subs and masters.

[Contains explicit content] Susie looks at Taiwan's answer to Sylvia Plath and David Foster Wallace, Qiu Miaojin. Her book Notes of a Crocodile, is challenging and beautiful and finally in English. Next, speaking of "miaos", the intense scrutiny over one sex story gone bad - "Cat Person" - gives Susie a glimpse at American "dating done bad".

[Contains explicit content] Susie talks about why consent is irrelevant if no one is allowed to say yes. The backlash to #metoo is here in reaction to outsized punishments for sexual transgressions and the infantilization of women.