Here's the scoop on my three newest shows...
A lot of people have asked me if Audible will start podcasting my shows. I don’t know how that would work, because the whole way Audible makes money, (and in turn, pays me) is to sell subscriptions to my show, or sell episodes a la carte, just as they do with audiobooks and other audio shows/magazines/journals. Podcasting is free to listeners, yes?
(Speaking of audio magazines, Audible is right now working on making The New Yorker into an audio-listening experience! My mom would have loved that. Actually, she would have been a great audio performer for it! She was always calling me up on the phone and reading her favorite articles to me).
There is one slightly different way to access my In Bed show aside from Audible.com— that’s accessing my episodes through the iTunes Music Store. You just put my name in the search box, and you’ll see every show I’ve ever done (almost 200 now) with the title and time. They are all $6 or $7 dollars... I have no idea why a few of them are a dollar more than the others. That’s more expensive than subscribing to Audible, but it’s kinda fun for picking and choosing.
Anyway, if you have some words of wisdom about podcasting, I’d love to hear them! Of course, your comments on any of the shows, or the topics I cover in this bunch, are much appreciated...
Episode 197
I start off with a news item from Spring Hill, Tennessee, where a woman was recently fined for selling a vibrating bath sponge at a library flea market. I bet it was one of those rubber ducky ones that I covet so much.
I’ve been on a insomniac reading kick lately. I love Candida Royalle's new book, How to Tell a Naked Man What to Do... She's like the Older Sexy Know-It-All Sister I never had... it's almost diabolical how she seems to have the perfect answer to every femme question.
It’s not actually about telling men "what to do," at all. It’s about women cultivating and enjoying their sexual style. It also has candid observations about what it’s been like to be the first “straight feminist” to make erotic movies for women, that revolutionized the porn industry in the process.
On an almost completely different topic, except for its sauciness, I fell in love with a history book set the mid 1800's in Alaska, about the amazing women who worked the Alaskan gold rush: Lael Morgan's Good Time Girls of the Alaska-Yukon Gold Rush. It's filled with breathtaking photos from the period, and remarkable diary entries and journals from people who lived through the experience.
Finally, in the Try This at Home mailbag, I answer a letter from a woman who thinks her man fits her like a glove, in all ways but one (small) one.
Episode 198
There have always been a lot of sexy things you can do in your car, and recently, the California State Assembly upheld the right to play porn on your in-car DVD system, in spite of complaints from parents who found themselves in awkward situations during rush hour. I nearly lost control myself one evening on Interstate 5, but you’ll have to tune in to hear the rest of that story!
After years of opening sexually explicit mail out in my local post office with complete nonchalance— no matter how many dirty looks that Passport guy gives me— I finally opened a package that gave me pause. The contents? A book about erotic enemas. I’m sorry, but I had a laughing fit at the zip code directory table. But upon closer inspection, this book is impeccably written, erotic, and informative.
In the Try This at Home mailbag, I offers some advice to a man who says he loves living with his girlfriend, but finds it impossible to masturbate while cohabitating... and it's not a happy secret.
Episode 199
This week, I investigate a phenomenon called post-coital anxiety syndrome. It’s about a particular panic that can follow orgasm— so is it stupid talk show theory, or a serious stigmatized dilemma?
In my book review section, I admire a middle-of-the-road, Midwestern look at the transsexual experience called Just Add Hormones.
Finally, I read a letter from a reader who said she literally “blew out her chakras” from listening to audio erotica. Some girls have all the fun.
An individual In Bed show costs about $5 to listen to, but if you want a free one-month trial, no strings attached, come to this page and give it a whirl. If you end up subscribing to Audible, it’s pennies... you get my show (or any other periodical) every week of the month, plus any one audiobook you like, for $14.95.