Susie starts off today's show with a sexual-political reflection on the issues surrounding the new movie Milk.
Next, Susie found a church that might be of interest to those couples looking for the go-ahead to have more sex. Pastor Ed Young from the evangelical Fellowship Church in Texas is asking all married couples in the congregation to have sex every day, for God's sake. This super-church reverend plans to wipe out extra-marital affairs, addiction, and pornography, all thru daily marital coitus.
Then, in the "Try This at Home" mailbag, Susie responds to an extra long letter from a listener who talks about his very successful three-way encounters, which were aided and abetted by the Jewish High Holidays.
Click on the link to listen to a chunky excerpt from this week's show.
"Can we ever have too much sex? Can we ever love someone too much? On today's show, Susie speaks with author Rachel Resnick about her new book, Love Junkie: A Memoir.
"Do your relationshipsruin your wallet, your friends,andyour own peace of mind? Yikes, everyone can learn something from this discussion. Susie and Rachel really getinto the heart of healthyversusobsessivesex.
"Then, in the "Try This at Home" mailbag, Susie responds to a listener who wants to know if she can truly be a good feminist if she also really likes kinky sex. —Who is she hiding in the closet from?
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Today, on my In Bed podcast, features three big topics: voyeurism, sexual myth-making, and
uncircumcised men.
Inspired by my sex advice guru, Cory Silverberg, I made myself honestly answer the question, "who would I
like to watch having sex, if I could have my pick?" Frankly, Cory is my first pick, because if he fucks as with as much empathy he writes, I'd be enthralled.
But on the tabloid gossip front, where there's a lot of glamour-pusses to choose from, I have an unusual reason why movie stars "Brad and
Angelina" make my top five:
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Cory's column, which got me thinking about all this, was about the myths we make up about what "great sex" really amounts to. He predicts that no matter who we chose to "watch perform," we'd get bored within an hour— and I think he might even be overestimating it.
Finally, in my Try This at Home mailbag, a worried listener asks: "Do women really turn up their noses at uncircumcised men?"
Are you ready for my All-Sarah, All-Sex,
All-Alaska joyride?
On my audio show this week, I get under
the covers with "Caribou Barbie."
What's up with Sarah's own story of pre-marital sex, drug binges, and
teenage pandemonium? How does having a Down-syndrome baby qualify you as a role model
for the right-to-life campaign? Should the governor always use law enforcement to wreak revenge on marital infidelity? And what's wrong with banning "My Friend Flicka" from the library if it doesn't follow the her church's doctrine?
All this, and how Sarah manages to "hug" McCain on the podium without appearing to be groped.
Finally, in my Try This at Home mailbag, I respond to a listener who wonders if he can introduce his favorite sex toys to his favorite call girl. I'm sure Sarah could weigh in on this, too!
UPDATE: After you've listened to me and had a few laughs, or poured yourself a highball of absinthe, sober up and listen to Gary Hart on the Palin insanity... I couldn't agree more with him. I think what's missing from his analysis is not only does the GOP elite "disdain" the notion of governance, but more importantly, they disdain democracy, because they have no intention of having ANY elected fool run "their country"— that's all to be done from an undisclosed location by people who rarely show their faces. McCain, Bush, Reagan... they've all been idiots, "America's Top Model," one and all. Palin is just the newest joke.
Illustration: This is an actual scene of Sarah Palin's life from a few years ago, when dinosaurs roamed the earth— that's according to her pastor in Wasilla! For more exciting Stone Age comix, see here...
I found out from Paul Krassner that George Carlin's daughter, Kelly, quoted my obit during her family memorial.
I'm so touched! It's just not the same without him around.
Carlin had the most perfect last words on dying:
"The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. I mean, life is tough. It takes up a lot of your time. What do you get at the end of it? A Death! What's that, a bonus?
"I think the life cycle is all backwards. You should die first, get it out of the way. Then you live in an old age home. You get kicked out when you're too young, you get a gold watch, you go to work. You work forty years until you're young enough to enjoy your retirement. You do drugs, alcohol, you party, you get ready for high school. You go to grade school, you become a kid, you play, you have no responsibilities, you become a little baby, you go back into the womb, you spend your last nine months floating......and you finish off as an orgasm."
On my audio show this week, I reminisce about Carlin, and then— on another subject!— talk about the past and current state of "inter-racial" porn, which is like The Theater of the Absurd, antebellum-style:
To my amazement, John McCain has decided to make his entire TV campaign about stimulating the imaginary, yet titillating "horror" of Obama sullying the specter of white, and particularly, blond, womanhood. Any one of his ads that juxtapose Barack with Paris or Britney feel like they came right out of a peep show arcade. It's out of the Karl Rove playbook, to be sure. This is the guy whose entire "oeuvre" consists of perverse race and sex baiting. Focus on the other guy's cock, and your election is in the bag. I can't wait 'til he dies, and the "Rovian Porn Archives" are revealed. I'm sure his rivals the Vatican's.
Finally, in my Try This at Home" mailbag, I get a letter from a listener who asks, "Hospital Sex. Am I crazy, or does it really happen? Is it weird to be horny while recuperating from surgery?"
Darling, it's the most natural thing in the world...
Don't forget, you can send your confidential questions and feedback about the show to susie@audible.com. (Episode 352, Aug. 8, 2008)
Photo Credit: Laurel & Hardy in The Battle of the Century, 1927. Over 4000 real pies were employed in the climactic battle of the custards.
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I just came back from summer camp: Camp It Up! to be exact. It's a family camp for gay/bi/lesbian tribes and their friends— a lot of floatin'-down-the-river, horse-riding, BBQ-chowing, fun.
Every time someone recognized me in the bathroom line, they'd say, in hushed tones: "Are you doing a workshop, here... please say yes!"
I knew they weren't asking for knot-tying advice; they had the same question as every straight, Ozzie-&-Harriet parent does: Will my lover and I ever have
sex again?
A lot of new moms and dads feel like they're in a time warp with their kids, with no hope of romance or erotic spontanaeity returning.
Well, thanks to my new acquaintance, Nicole Chaison, who edits the super-cool parenting magazine HausFrau, the sex-for-parents workshop (or should we call it a marathon?) can begin.
HausFrau deals with visceral family challenges: head lice, (best comic book ever on the subject)
traveling with kids, and of course, sex. Nicole sent me letters from her readers, who asked— without flinching— about loaded post-natal topics like low libido, boring sex, anal sex, privacy, children storming your bedroom door, and whether labor and orgasms
are related. We're publishing my answers in HausFrau's next issue!
I was inspired by one of the mother-to-be's who asked, "Can
I keep doing one of my favorite sexual activities without hurting the
baby?" She means fisting. Of course, this woman hasn't given birth yet, so she has yet to find out that her new favorite activity is going to be falling to sleep for a thousand years.
Meanwhile, here's a preview of what we talked about, from my latest In Bed audio show, where I shared a few of Nicole's letters, and my responses:
Tristan Taormino, Vivid Video's celebrated movie maker, author of Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Women and editor of the Best Lesbian Eroticaseries, has done it again: she's written a hands-on book, titled Opening Up, A Guide to Creating and Sustaining Open Relationships— about how to deal with all the issues that come up with non-monogamy.
Susie puts Tristan to the test! What if your lover throws a jealous fit at every play party and then denies it? How do you have kids and stay the course in a poly family? What if one partner is on the prowl and the other couldn't care less? Why do monogamous folks think they're doing any better? These two get a little carried away.....
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Painting by: John Weiss. I got a wild hair to illustrate this story with photo stills of the old TV show, "Three's Company," but this portrait by popped up in my search. They're so much deeper.
Today, on my In Bed podcast, we
look into the politics of AIDS, and why "telling the big lies" is endemic to every funding and policy opportunity.
I interview author and epidemiologist Elizabeth Pisani about her new book The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats,
Brothels and the Business of AIDS— a bracing look at how AIDS is perceived, sexually and politically, around the world.
I asked Elizabeth, if "number of partners" really does count, in certain situations, how do you do prevention education that isn't religious, moralistic, or hypocritical?
Finally, in my Try This at Home mailbag: What do you say to a listener
who asks; help, my new husband is forty years old and he's completely
in the dark about sex!
Don't forget, you can send your confidential questions and feedback about the show to susie@audible.com. (Episode 350, July 25, 2008)
Susie talks with legendary sex blogger, "Chelsea Girl." They discuss "viscous porn-starry spit," stripteasing your way to a scholarly interest in Victorian erotica, and Chelsea's always-revealing web diary, Pretty Dumb Things.
If you like this sample and want to hear more, you can subscribe (for $2 a show) to my weekly show at Audible.com. I'm offering a 12-episode season on iTunes to give new listeners a taste!
Today, on my In Bed podcast, I've made a special hour and a half compilation of my most personal interviews and oral histories of women in the porn business.
It starts with my memories of Linda Lovelace, whom I encountered in some of those "Only in LA" moments that define the 1970s for me. I witnessed her crowning stage moment at Cal Jam 1 on my first acid trip, in 10th grade...just for starters! The phenomenon of her career and my own early impressions of porn are inseparable. I recorded this before her untimely death.
Another personal history here is my memories of Traci Lords. I covered Traci as a Penthouse film critic, (and, bizarrely, appeared with her in the same movie, The Grafenberg Spot), before her revelations that she was working as an underage performer.
The other audio segments are frank interviews with my friends about their personal and professional lives in the sex business.
I've been sisters and colleagues with these women for many years... we don't put on an act, or dress up the facts. There's no politically-correct, cheerleading for porn—trying to make it cute for the mike. You may have never heard women talk about sex this way, and if you have, you're going to feel in very good company!
Don't forget, you can send your confidential questions and feedback about the show to susie@audible.com.
Photo Credit: Honey Lee Cottrell, 1984, Kathy Andrew's first leatherwork studio, for On Our Backs
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