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April 16, 2025, LOS ANGELES — American sexologist Dr. Susan Block delivered her fifth annual 2025 State of the Sexual Union address – a sex-positive, greed-negative, pro-bonobo “rebuttal” to U.S. President Donald Trump’s pseudo-strongman State of the Union 2025 and his pro-wrestling circus-style lurch toward authoritarian repression and recession – broadcast live 4.5.25 on Active Radio with gracious host Hartley Pleshaw on WCAP-AM 980 and now available on most platforms.

Listen to Dr. Susan Block’s full 2025 State of the Sexual Union address

“Where the State of the Sexual Union (SOTSU) is concerned, no one is better qualified to deliver it than America’s leading sexologist, America’s #1 sex therapist and sexpert, Dr. Susan Block,” Hartley asserted. And yes, she delivered.

So, in a word… What IS the State of the Sexual Union in 2025?

“Precarious” pronounced Dr. Susan Block, aka Dr. Suzy, veteran sex educator, sex therapy pioneer, award-winning cultural commentator, host of HBO’s Radio Sex TV and best-selling author of The Bonobo Way: The Evolution of Peace through Pleasure. Having found the word, she went on to address the rather perilous, unstable state of our sexual union in the public sphere, as well as the precarity of her own personal love life.

Then Dr. Suzy’s SOTSU 2025 address metamorphosed into “Meet the Press,” with Hartley asking her questions on various topics, from sharing, erotic caretaking, sensual healing and The Bonobo Way to censorship, Zionism, the Billionaire Mind Virus, the Marquis de Sade, Zuck the Cuck and Musk the Boar, within the “meeting ground of sex, politics and culture which,” he opined, “I believe Dr. Suzy covers and handles better than anyone in the present contemporary scene.”

SOTSU 2025 Topics:

• State of Disunion: Even as *We the People* continue to move towards sexual union, opening up to a veritable rainbow of consenting-adult erotic expressions, Dr. Suzy observed, our leaders (many of whom are billionaires) – in politics, religion, corporations and in media, including social media – tell a different story, driving us toward a state of sexual disunion, dividing us to conquer us, through rising authoritarian repression, blatant hypocrisy and a neo-Puritanical, fascistic, misogynistic, ecocidal emphasis on sex as procreation, not recreation. Though these same leaders tend to indulge in (semi-secret) recreational sex for themselves, they aggressively repress it in others, censoring sex education and the erotic voices of The People, policing us in social media and in our everyday lives with increasingly draconian and autocratic measures.
• Max’s Stroke: Revealing the precarious “state” of her personal “sexual union,” Dr. Suzy shared the melancholy news with her WCAP audience that her beloved sexual partner, husband for over 33 years and friend for 40, as well as publisher, DrSuzy-Tv producer, FDR co-host, her “witness” and constant collaborator, Capt’n Max, aka Prince Maximillian Rudolph Leblovic Lobkowicz di Filangieri, suffered a major ischemic stroke on May 19, shortly after SOTSU 2024. Surfing the waves of emotion, she addressed the intensely personal – yet sadly universal – challenges that she and Max face due to his sudden and devastating physical and verbal incapacitation. Though Dr. Suzy’s no Luigi Mangione – nor Florence Nightengale – her crash course in caretaking Max post-stroke, under constant threat of being triaged into a living death by the American Medical Insurance Megamachine, has given her a deeper understanding of just how it both saves and destroys lives.
  

• Bonobo Caregiving: Hartley opened the next segment with Marvin Gaye’s iconic “Sexual Healing,” moving Dr. Suzy to open up about what she’s learned *hands-on* regarding the importance of erotic touch to Max’s healing and to healing the world. It’s “Caregiving the Bonobo Way,” harnessing the life-giving power of Eros, Greek god of sex, love and the breath of life, and in a way, the opposite of death (Thanatos). Practicing this kind of erotic touch in hospitals and nursing homes where it may be abused is a “touchy” subject. Nevertheless, her experience with Max is teaching her that consenting-adult sensual touch “provides more healing than oxycontin.”
  

• Suzy vs. Meta: “Why is Zuck the Cuck after you?” Hartley asked Dr. Suzy. “That’s what I’d like to ask him,” she replied, “or at least his representatives – in court.” She is suing Meta for wrongful business practices based on “censorship by bot,” erroneous, anti-sex algorithms abruptly deactivating her 15-year-old Facebook and IG profiles. “This is a fight for Users Rights,” explained Dr. Suzy. “And real Free Speech for all – including sex workers, activists and Palestine-supporters, not just Zuck the Cuck and whoever he’s trying to suck up to.” Save the Date: June 20, 2025 for the Dr. Suzy vs. Zuck the Cuck Showdown in the San Mateo Courthouse. Now Mark Zuckerberg is buying his way into the UFC – like Elon Musk bought into the White House. Will Zuck buy the judge? He probably already has…
  

• The Billionaire Mind Virus: Dr. Suzy’s article “Fighting the Billionaire Mind Virus: In the Ring with Zuck the Snake & On the Range with Musk the Boring Boer-Loving Wild Boar,” also on Counterpunch has struck a chord, as it addresses the influence of Zuck, Musk and other tech billionaires – as well as pseudo billionaires like Trump – on free speech and on freedom in general.  “The Woke Mind Virus is just Elon Musk’s paranoid fetish, but the Billionaire Mind Virus is real,” said Dr. Suzy, “and it’s killing us.”

• Trump Speech Isn’t Free: “I brought back Free Speech in America,” declared the POTUS to kick off his SOTU. “It’s back.” To that, Dr. Suzy rebutted, “Trump Free Speech is about as free as a seat next to him at Mar A Lago Sunday brunch. And slap a tariff on that.”

• State of Palestine: Suzy blasted “Donand Bibi’s gaudy graven image of a Gaza Riviera – now offering hot deals on beachfront property (with offshore gas shares) – or some monstrous variation on Manifest Destiny, MAGA-style,”  criticizing Trump’s Zionist alliances as disingenuous, profit-driven, cruel and bloody. Like censored sex educators, voices advocating for peace—especially Jewish voices speaking out for Palestine—are increasingly silenced by social media moguls in bed with political powerbrokers.

• Jews with Opposing Views: Mid-broadcast, another WCAP host, Jim Schanker, *texted in* to Active Radio to criticize Dr. Suzy’s remarks on Palestine, asserting that “Israel is at war with Hamas” rather than Palestine. Dr. Suzy, describing herself as a “Jew for Palestine,” peace and justice, clarified her support for Palestinian civilians while also recognizing the pain of all victims. “I am very much against all killing,” she noted, “whether it’s of hostages or people that are being bombed… and a lot more Palestinians are being bombed,” while pointing out that such pro-peace stances are increasingly censored on social media and college campuses. Before her SOTSU ended, Jim had invited Dr. Suzy on his show, L’Chaim (“To Life”). Tune in on May 2, 2025 for what’s sure to be an exciting dialogue between Jews with opposing views on Israel and Palestine, and probably a few other things.

• Liu, Hedges, De Sade: In the final segment, Hartley played a provocative clip featuring culture critic (and fellow Yalie) Catherine Liu, describing the Marquis de Sade as a philosophical forefather of sexual liberation, with podcast host Chris Hedges’ apparent support. Dr. Suzy firmly rejected this framing, stating, “To represent sexual freedom as the Marquis de Sade is disgusting… he was not a kink-aware practitioner of BDSM; his activities were mostly non-consensual. The “Make Love Not War” movement pioneered consent’s importance to kink, female empowerment and peace through authentic pleasure, not aristocratic “sadism” masquerading as freedom. Perhaps this is what happens when anti-sex “feminists” get paid by Rightwing thinktanks to cleverly critique the sex-positive Left.

• A Bonoboësque Vision for a Make-Love-Not-War Future: Having long exemplified “greed is good,” Zuck the Meta Cuck is now pushing “aggression is good” in the ring, in the public square, everywhere.  Dr. Suzy contrasted Zuck the Cuck’s worshipful elevation of violent aggression – buttressed by Meta’s twisted, algorithmic, dehumanizing control of the People’s Voices – with the Bonobo Way of peace through pleasure, female empowerment, male nurturance, sharing and, not just caring, but caregiving, embracing lust over greed, like the bonobos do, and acknowledging that eros is not just for procreation, but also recreation, good relations and relationships, as part of a broader vision for a more sex-positive, greed-negative, antiwar, ecologically sustainable future.

Listen to Dr. Susan Block’s 2025 State of the Sexual Union address on WCAP
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Read Dr. Suzy’s SOTSU 2025 account on COUNTERPUNCH

Check out Dr. Suzy’s 2024, 2023, 2022 and 2021 “State of the Sexual Union” (SOTSU) addresses.

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Read Dr. Suzy’s SOTSU 2025 Recap on COUNTERPUNCH