by Dr. Susan Block.      

All aboard the Gravy Train, broadcasting live mid-Thanksgiving Weekend, still digesting Turkey Day, Feasting Day, Fat Thursday—or the Day of Mourning and Protest for the native tribal peoples of America who were slaughtered, their land stolen by the British Pilgrims and other European colonialists, as surely as the natives of Palestine are being slaughtered, their land is stolen by the Zionists of today.

The American pilgrims massacred the Natives with muskets and blankets filled with smallpox. The Zionist pilgrims use bombs (provided by American war profiteers) and light up the night sky with white phosphorus.

Chef Gideon’s Thanksgiving in Bonoboville

Thus—though Capt’n Max and I are very thankful for the deeply heartwarming and bonoboesque Israel/Hamas hostages-for-prisoners exchange taking place as I write this, and for the fabulous turkey dinner created by Chef Gideon here in Bonoboville  (boy, did I get stuffed—from both ends)—we generally prefer Spanksgiving to Thanksgiving.

Slappy Spanksgiving 2023!

Season’s Beatings, Brothers and Sisters, Lovers and Sinners, Pilgrims and Libertines and In-Betweens…

It’s our duty to spank booty on Spanksgiving!

On Thanksgiving, let us give thanks, and on Spanksgiving, let us give spanks. Let us spank away the hate and the greed and the fear that divide us. And let us practice the Bonobo Way of peace through pleasure… with a little spanking. Consenting adults only please. Don’t spank kids (they can’t consent).

Come let us play… And let us sing: Amen and Awomen. Praise be to the power and glory of spanking. Hallelujah. Praise the buns. And give ‘em a spank.

On Thanksgiving, let us give thanks, and on Spanksgiving, let us give spanks. Let us spank away the hate and the greed and the fear that divide us. And let us practice the Bonobo Way of peace through pleasure… with a little spanking. Consenting adults only please. Don’t spank kids (they can’t consent).

The Bible says, “Spare the rod and spoil the child.” I say: “Spare the child and use that hot rod to spoil your (consenting adult) lover with just the kind of spanking they enjoy.” 

Spanking is not to everyone’s erotic taste, but it’s a whole lot of kink-positive, recreational-not-procreational, butt-whacking fun or some. It can even, when done the right way, be therapeutic.

Pilgrim Kinks

Spanksgiving is more reality-based than Thanksgiving. It’s far more likely that our Pilgrim ancestors practiced the rites of Spanksgiving than the mythical love-in with the Wampanoag Native Americans that we in willfully ignorant America have come to call Thanksgiving.

Pilgrim and Puritan spankings, paddlings, whippings, floggings, “stocks and bonds,” “tar and feathering,” “public disgrace” and witch-hangings (which members of our audience find particularly distressing this episode) were, of course, totally nonconsensual atrocities delivered with sanctimonious relish, often to punish sexual transgressions, such as adultery, group sex or masturbation. The witches or belladonnas were also hung for healing the sick because when it came to matters of life, death and well-being, the all-controlling Church Fathers didn’t like competition.

Despite our abhorrence for such abusive chastisements—which are making terrible “comebacks,” like corporal punishment in schools and torture in prisons—consenting adults can share kinky healing pleasure in roleplaying such crimes of colonialism, such as we do at the Institute via phone sex therapy as well as in Spanksgiving celebrations past in Bonoboville.

Shanksgiving?

Disturbingly enough, Shanksgiving is trending on xTwitter right now—referring to the recent prison stabbing of Derek Chauvin, whom the world saw in 2020 slowly murdering George Floyd with his knee on his neck.

I can’t say I’m upset about Chauvin’s plight; still, I prefer Spanks to Shanksgiving.

It’s our duty to spank booty on Spanksgiving!

Deep Throat does LA

Speaking of booty… My “Deep Throat does LA” multi-media extravaganza is now online! Join me and Bonoboville On-the-Road across town and down the hatch of history for the 50th anniversary of Gerard Damiano’s DEEP THROAT, that ‘70s Film epitomizing “Porno Chic” and, for some, the Sexual Revolution. It’s all part of Gerard Damiano, Jr. and Christar Damiano’s golden anniversary commemoration of their father’s seminal (pun intended) film, bringing a 4K-Restored Director’s Cut Print to the Laemmle Royal Theater and 910 WeHo Center (courtesy of Tom Hoffman), both LA screenings featuring Golden Age Adult Nina Hartley, Veronica Hart, Amber Lynn, Christy Canyon, Keisha, porn power couple Luc Wylder and Alexandra Silk (who are also making a film about the tour), “Naked John,” Nai’a (Golden Age porn star/director Gloria Leonard’s granddaughter), and the late great Herschel Savage (who sadly passed away a month ago) on the Red Carpet, plus Danny Wolf interviewing me about my “first time” watching Deep Throat in a big theater circa 1978. Sexperts Erin Tillman, Lux Lives, Kim Airs, Rhiannon Aarons and more joined the veteran stars at the follow-up “Talk Back” Panels, moderated by yours truly, about the history, the “communal ecstasy,” the raging controversies, the complex and tragic tale of Deep Throat star Linda Lovelace, Free Speech (then and now), the value of sexual recreation (The Bonobo Way) vs. forced procreation (the Alito way), Clarence Thomas and the Coke can, and the quirky creation of this iconic and scandalous film.

Filmed for under $25,000, Deep Throat is said to have made almost $600 million (for all you capitalists counting profits), capturing the cravings of the “Make Love Not War” generation traumatized by Vietnam and yearning for sexual healing. Prosecuted for obscenity and defended by Hollywood stars Warren Beatty, Jack Nicholson, Barry Miller (who joined us at 910 WeHo) and many others, Deep Throat drew (and still draws) a wide range of protests, from Charles Keating and the Religious Right to Catherine MacKinnon and the Anti-Porn Feminists to President Richard Nixon himself. With delectable irony, the name of the “Watergate” informant that forced Nixon to resign was “Deep Throat.” Tricky Dick Nixon tried to shut down Deep Throat, but “Deep Throat” took down Tricky Dick.

“What was Deep Throat’s effect on our world? What about it was delicious and what was tough to swallow?” I asked the Laemmle and 910 WeHo panels. “What has changed for the better and what for worse?” If you missed these stimulating screening events and panels live, don’t miss the fabulous videos and my “Deep Throat does LA” journal.

It being Thanksgiving, I give thanks to Counterpunch for posting “Deep Throat does LA: 50 Years of Sex, Cinema, Politics & Controversy” and for all their excellent coverage and analysis of the crazy world today. Thanks especially to Jeffrey St. Claire and Joshua Frank, my excellent editors who don’t really edit, but keep it all together for us. I even have a subscription and you should too.

Oral & Aural Pleasures

The Deep Throat logo is a kiss, and Callin caller Maria’s avatar is her own ruby lips holding a fortune cookie fortune between them reading “You look happy and proud.”

Indeed, Maria is quite happy and proud of herself and her Thanksgiving 2023 that included a “Friendsgiving” and family feast with guests from Czech Republic, Tunisia and Lebanon, none of whom discussed politics, nor did they have a foursome with Maria’s sister-in-law who invited them (or so she says), even though I can’t get the image of a consensual Gravy Train Gangbang out of my mind.

“Happy and Proud” between Maria’s Hot Lips. Photo: Maria Red Herring

Though we don’t talk directly about sex on this call—except to elicit a giggle over Spanksgiving—Maria describes her Thanksgiving cuisine with such sensuous, mellifluous, mouthwatering detail; it’s like having phone sex with a restaurant hostess reciting the menu. Well, eating is an oral pleasure. Before we close, she obliges my musical request, reprising the Beatles “Her Majesty” with royal harmony. Now that’s an aural pleasure.

Lots more on this flavorful show. Grab a bowl of leftover stuffing—or fresh cannabis—and listen…

© November 25,  2023 Susan Block, Ph.D., a.k.a. “Dr. Suzy,” is a world renowned LA sex therapist, author of The Bonobo Way: The Evolution of Peace through Pleasure and horny housewife, occasionally seen on HBO and other channels. For speaking engagements, call 626-461-5950.