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On today's show, Susie talks with Jennifer Palais about how to de-clutter more than just your old yearbooks and scrapbooks. Palais helps organize people's love lives - not just where to put the lube and ropes, but how to bid adieu to the painful remnants of a broken love affair. Do you have mementos from a past relationship that you can't throw away? Susie describes some of her own challenges with sexy stuff that is too good to let go.

Shopping for all your essentials is now easier. You just have to hit one store for your toothpaste, kitty litter, cough drops - and new vibrator! Yes, once only purchased at sex stores and discreetly online, now vibrators are the hottest items to be stocked prominently at a 7-Eleven near you. Susie wonders what to make of this new acceptance by prudish corporate America, and supposes we must follow the money....

Today, in our "Try This at Home" mailbag, Susie gets a letter from a listener who works from home using the company's computer. She wonders if surfing the web for pornography is going to get her in trouble with the boss. What do you think Susie will say about this?

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 is off this week and wants you to enjoy a show from 2006…. Susie speaks with her old friend, photographer Phyllis Christopher, and remembers the first time she received a package of S&M photos from an unknown woman in Buffalo, New York, 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.

Susie is off this week and wants you to enjoy this show from 2007…. We start off with the true story of one U.S. senator's diaper fetish - he's our kinky hypocrite of the week! Then, in Part One of a two-part interview, Susie talks with feminist author Katha Pollitt, who's been writing about feminism for decades and is perhaps best known for her Nation magazine column "Subject to Debate".

Today's show features a deep look into Catholicism and Paganism - something for everyone! Susie recently wrote an article that appeared in the Huffington Post about a new iPhone app that allows sinners to make an instant confession. After purchasing this entryway to God for $1.99, Susie was prompted to answer some questions about her devotedness. Looks like she'll be in the digital confession booth for quite some time!

A new book has unleashed a media frenzy about one mother's controversial way of raising her kids. Battle Hymn of a Tiger Mother by Amy Chua reveals some extreme demands she places on her daughters. She expects perfection in everything! On today's show, Susie takes a look into the sexual-developmental side effects this kind of parenting may have on kids. Susie equates the lack of pleasure and self-determination to a post-puberty future of despair and denial. Wow, what's a parent to do?

Dildo alert! Are you at risk because of the materials used to make dildos? Susie reads from an article by Cory Silverberg who thinks this warning about the chemical phthalates used in dildos is overblown.

Today's show is all about joysticks for Jacks and Jills. Susie interviews video-gamer and erotic author Shanna Germain. There is a perception that gamers are all young men who spend all their waking hours in a basement secluded from the real world. Well, surprise - many gamers are regular people including plenty of female devotees. Shanna and Susie talk about how sex finds its way into some popular programs and how to navigate a multi-player game.

With the Academy Awards just around the corner, Susie looks at what has prompted some heated debates over the sex scenes in one of the nominated movies: Black Swan. Watching Natalie Portman masturbate and orgasm was hot to watch, but for some women, it caused a stir about the best way to get off. Susie says as long as you come, why criticize the method?

Sex Educator Tristan Taormino is making a documentary about sex fantasies, and he's been looking for a second opinion about a scene that may be too taboo, so Susie offers her reaction. The drama is fine, says Susie, but it got her wondering why the fantasy rape depicted in the movie was seen as going too far. Susie compares what's forbidden in the porn industry versus mainstream Hollywood, and the results are surprising. Who do you think is more prudish?

Susie is off this week but wants you to enjoy the second part of a 2007 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?

Today's show takes a quick look at why and how sex education has evolved in the United States. Susie reads from an article in Newsweek that featured a story written by Johanna Cornblatt. Going back to the 1800s, we see the same worries about "evil" sex and plans to control the young, just as with today's abstinence-only sex-ed. The article is full of strange and fun historical facts, including warnings about syphilis, prostitutes, the 1960s sexual revolution, and HIV and AIDS.

A man posts a personal sex ad on Craigslist. No problem, right? Except this guy is a teacher, and it seems his private life is not private. After a complaint to the police from an anonymous caller, our teacher removed the ad. But it didn't end there; he was fired. Susie finds the decision of the court over this case to be so misguided, she's breathing fire. She looks at what they called "vulgar" and "inappropriate" and calls the firing a witch hunt by repressed men who are holier then thou.

Susie has been busy traveling around the country on her new book tour. Her memoir Big Sex, Little Death is out in the stores, and today Susie offers some stories from the road. Beginning in Detroit, she recounts some shocking indiscretions at her first stop. Think designer dresses and Opium! Then, from Michigan to New York City, baby, where sex celebrities and no sign of a recession greeted her. Oh, NYC can be so glamorous and kinky!

New York Times op-ed columnist Ross Douthat is in big trouble with Susie! In his recent piece called "Why Monogamy Matters", he said that women with minimal or virginal sexual experience are the happiest women in the land. Oh! Oh! Watch out, because here comes Susie's response. She's really steamed, because the Times didn't reveal the writer's religious agenda and the story wasn't fact-checked.

It's Part 2 of our annual look at the top sex stories of 2010. This week we continue to look at the headlines that made a sexual splash....

Happy New Year! Susie starts off today's show with a list of her personal New Year's resolutions. And, surprise, her list is all about sex. Susie has talked about the male penis enlarger and how that sounds pretty interesting; now she's recently found out about a device for women: a clitoral pump enlarger. Research is essential, and Susie will tell us all about her findings. Then, in our ongoing "Tell Me Your Sex Story" segment, Susie herself decides it's her turn to get into the sexual confession booth.

Susie is off this week and wants you to enjoy a show from 2006.... Susie loves answering sex questions so much that she's grabbed a letter of the Dear Abby type to answer. A husband asks how many men it's okay for his wife to have slept with before they married, and Susie is just dying to give the honest response to the question of how much cock is too much. Then, Susie is lusting after a new pair of special street-walking platforms that have cameras, speakers, and even GPS locators in the heels.