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[Contains explicit content] The new head of The Kinsey Institute wants to focus on relationships and well-being instead of plain old sex. Laudatory goal? Or right-wing dog whispering?

Next, firms that collect healthcare data can now inform your boss if they suspect you're trying to get pregnant. What could possibly go wrong?

Finally, it's "What's New on Audible". Susie loves Peter Coyote's magnificent new memoir, The Rainman's Third Cure: An Unsentimental Education.

Oh, really? There's a rumor going around of a bright-orange, phallic shaped, Hawaiian mushroom that triggers spontaneous orgasms when women sniff it. That sounds great, says Susie - except that this is hogwash! Every few years, a different story about a new erotic aphrodisiac pops up, and sorry to say, it's just hype.

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 the show off with a look at nerds and sexual rejection. This discussion began with MIT professor Scott Aaronson, when he wrote about being traumatized as a young nerd and how that left him out of the larger world of male privilege. Challenging his thesis is Laurie Penny in NewStatesman.com, a female nerd who has a different take on oppression. It's patriarchy and anti-feminism that are the culprits here. Being bullied affects one's self esteem and sexuality, and that creates the rage, trauma, and hurt of "nerdolescence".

In 18th-century London, a man named Jack Harris published an annual guide entitled Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies, which noted the ladies' skills at prostitution. If you've ever used a Zagat or Frommer's guide, or Consumer Reports, you have an idea of how popular Harris's list must have been. Susie reads from a New Yorker article by Nicola Twilley that details how the guide evolved and who made it onto the selective list.

Campus rape prevention and prosecution are in the news again, and some say it's a crisis. Others say it's a panic. Susie sees a chasm between ideal behavior and an informed understanding of human sexuality. She reads from an article by Sara Lipka in The Chronicle of Higher Education that lays out the real dilemma here: Many college students lack education about sexuality and are unprepared and insecure about sex.

Time for your history lesson on the origins of the female clitoris. That's right, Susie has a detailed look, beginning in ancient times and moving through to the present day, on the absurd idea that the clit is evil or witchcrafty or that it's really just an unimportant body part. Susie reads from an article in the Huffington Post by writers Carina Kolodny and Amber Genuske, who tell what the anatomists, psychologists, and neurologists have written throughout the ages about this important female pleasure center.

Susie talks to novelist James Grainger. His book Harmless explores sex and masculinity in the aging Gen-X crowd. How do you write one sex scene to thrill and another to horrify? Titillation and sexual reality; threading the needle.

Why is a new AIDS preventative pill under attack? Truvada has been dubbed a party drug by conservatives, who see it as an aid to continuing risky sex, rather than something to help people with HIV. Susie reads from Out magazine's article "Why I Am a Truvada Whore". This tongue-in-cheek story shows how mixed up the debate is and likens the fear of HIV protection to the 1960s-era fear of giving birth-control pills to unmarried couples.

As Susie gets ready to for her book tour for Mommy's Little Girl and Best American Erotica 2004, she's soliciting from you, dear listeners, suggestions for people she should interview for In Bed during her trip to NYC. To give some guidance, Susie spills the dirt on what kind of guest makes for a great sex interview. Then, Paypal's new indecency policy has put an end to one of the first Web pioneers - Jennicam, and more

For anyone who lived through the 1980s AIDS crisis, watching friends dying, like the apocalypse had arrived, it seems unthinkable that today's students don't know about this recent history. December 1 was World AIDS Day. Susie starts off today's show with a discussion about why the younger generation doesn't know about the real trauma of HIV/AIDS. She reads from an article by a college professor who explains that his students think that AIDS happens to "others", who they then marginalize and write off. Wrong!

[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 the links between sex, gender, and the white supremacists who gathered in Charlottesville, Virginia. Next, Susie wants to know how much better sex can be if you stuff glitter in your vagina. And finally, in honor of James Baldwin's birthday, we listen to an excerpt from The Fire Next Time.

Escort services like to offer up hotties for their clients, but what happens if your "date" is a porn star? Susie reads an article from Salon that looks at why adult movie actresses are supplementing their incomes with this other line of work. She digs deep into why some X-rated stars are "working private" and not feeling like they have to keep it a secret. Next, Susie shares a Guardian article that lists the 2014 "Bad Sex in Fiction" awards. What does that mean? Is it that the scenes are poorly written, somehow sexually disgusting, or just pornographic? Hard to say, says Susie, but there are some top-notch authors on the list.

The debate about teaching sex ed in schools is eternal, but now there's new resistance from some parents in California. Susie reads from a Time article by Alexandra Sifferlin about a group of parents who started a campaign to remove a sex-ed textbook from their local middle school, arguing that it was inappropriate for their 13- and 14-year-olds. Susie has a lot to say about this, noting that she finds parents to be overly protective and unaware of what teenagers already know.

Those crazy American evangelicals are at it again. Always trying to tell everybody else what to do, they've now decided to save Chinese teenagers from becoming sinners. Yes, it's true, the abstinence program heads to Beijing! Well, Susie has a few words to say about all this. It seems that the Focus on the Family group is behind trying to convert the entire planet to "just say no" to sex before wedlock.

[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.

In this episode, Susie finds the ultimate deathbed accusation - and she'll help you to avoid such rancor when you're on yours. Then, a gay grandson is barred from singing at his grandmother's funeral - by the queeniest priest you've ever laid eyes on. And in "New on Audible", Susie discusses Shahid Arabi's Becoming the Narcissist's Nightmare: How to Devalue and Discard the Narcissist While Supplying Yourself. Let's all resist the narcissists out there!

[Contains explicit content] Susie brings you a show from 2010. First, a sexual thumbs up nod to Canada, where courts have said whores can run a lawful business; now they can even call the police and report a bad client. Next, Susie has a voyeuristic interview with a willing listener into sex games. Then, a question from a listener: "How come I'm getting a migraine headache just as I'm about to orgasm?"

Van Barnes is an actor and producer, known for being a transgender spokesperson. Susie had the chance to interview Van this summer while she was in the middle of production on the new Amazon TV series Transparent. Van has lots of great behind-the-scenes stories for us about working on the show. Susie also has a follow-up interview with Van, in which he explains how life is going now that season one is being watched, critiqued, and reviewed. What has been the audience's response? You'll hear lots of fun, sexy tidbits from Van and Susie.