by Dr. Susan Block.

Following an exciting Reunion Spring on the cusp of Summer Solstice, we’re crossing our fingers (but not our legs) for a Bonobo Summer of Love, “A Midsummer Night’s Wet Dream,” a warm, sweet, June “Honey Moon” of good consenting-adult sex, female empowerment, male well-being, sharing resources and peace through pleasure in balmy weather.

But we are bracing for a Summer of Fear—a sweltering season of war and more war, lingering disease and dis-ease, climate catastrophe, looming fascism, threats of nuclear holocaust, systemic collapse, militant religiosity, brutal misogyny, widening inequities, increasing sex-negativity from the Right and the Left, Midsommar madness, more mass shootings, war and more war—as the Love Train rolls into the future, doing our best to have a good time.

Everyone has their own way of handling the fear. Capt’n Max chooses to get stoned. Well, maybe he doesn’t *choose* to get quite as stoned as he gets just before this show starts, but that’s what happens sometimes when you ingest strong edibles—“just two little chocolate squares”—washed down with beer in the F.D.R. Bar Car. It’s a little loopy and challenging to follow (even for his loving wife of 30 years here), but listen carefully (above or below) and you’ll find Max Stonerisms infused with remarkable insights, accidental hilarity, big love and good cheers.

And it’s a LOT better than suiting up in your “Man Card” body armor and toting your easily-purchased AR-15 to the local mall or town hall, which is how more and more of our fellow Americans—at least the ammosexual ones—are handling the real fear that we’re all feeling. Yep, real fear. It ain’t just paranoia when the object of your fear is actually teetering over your head.

Much violence is perpetrated by frustrated, humiliated (but not in a good way) and bewildered men who need sexual liberation and education… not easy access to an AR-15, let alone “tactical” nuclear weapons.

It’s also the 157^th anniversary of Juneteenth, America’s most profound celebration of reality-based, physical freedom, commemorating the hard-fought, long-overdue freeing of some 250,000 slaves, that built this great nation on land stolen from the Native Americans, whose descendants are still discriminated against in this supposed land of the “free” by the ruthless European colonialists that cobbled our “laws.” Indeed, the “stolen people” who were forced into slavery transformed the “stolen land” of America into a country.

We talk about the parallels between America’s land stolen from the Natives, and the Land of Israel, rather similarly stolen from the Palestinians. Thanks to a guy on Youtube calling himself “Go Boy,” our “top commenter” of the night, we connect Putin’s war on Ukraine and military-styled ammosexual Americans shooting up schools and massage parlors.

We’re all connected, you see, but not necessarily in a good way. It’s uncanny how much violence is perpetrated by frustrated, humiliated (but not in a good way) and bewildered men who need sexual liberation and education… not easy access to an AR-15, let alone “tactical” nuclear weapons.

Why can’t we be more bonobo?

Most of us really could “be Bonobo,” and many of us really want to. But our rulers—or, as George Carlin would say, our “owners”—and the ultra-capitalist systems that serve them, stop us from following The Bonobo Way, literally pushing us—kicking and screaming or passively shopping and playing videogames—in the opposite direction.

And it’s getting worse in the Summer of Fear. The more unfair and brutally capitalist our so-called civilization gets, the more the billionaires with their slick PR flacks tell us our real problem is with our fellow citizens, not their ruling classcorruption, theft, fakery and horrific, truly tragic failure.

Of course, this con of the millennium is cloaked in pious garbage, “thoughts and prayers” for the dead and deprived, and disdain for the poor and “socialist.” Ironically, Americans are getting progressively less religious, but our leaders are getting regressively more religious, with abortion and other freedoms on the chopping block.

The anti-porn crusades chime in with all this piety, and unfortunately Go Boy—just when he was starting to grow on me—brings up the “harm” porn can cause. Sure, porn can be harmful. So can food. But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t eat. Likewise, the existence of bad porn doesn’t mean you shouldn’t seek out and enjoy good porn, or maybe, if you like it, you prefer the term “erotica.” Porn might be lousy sometimes (okay, much of the time), but almost any porn is less “harmful” than the “harmless” gun porn and shameless military propaganda that mainstream Hollywood feeds kids of all ages like candy.

We also talk about Abby Martin’s galvanizing Peoples Summit speech calling out “US Empire’s criminal use of sanctions and economic gangsterism,” as well as the Coup-Anon hearings that don’t tell us much we didn’t already know except that the Trumpus really was fine with his followers trashing Congress, “hanging Mike Pence” or whatever. Exhibit A: More pumped up dudes (and a few dudettes) who need to release their frustrated erotic energy through consenting adult sexuality instead of raiding, invading and murdering a bunch of people while taking selfies.

Celebrate Juneteenth every day. Free yourself, the Bonobo Way.

Juneteenth Speakeasy Throwback  (2018)

And no, freedom doesn’t equal firearms, but it does have something to do with fucking.

Fuck Da Rich! And listen to another inimitable F.D.R…

“Bonobo Summer Solstice” Transcript

MAX
Oh, we’re ready to go! Oh, I thought we started a little while ago. I was just waiting. Anyway hi, I’m Max and tonight we’re celebrating a hugeness of love. It’s about our search for love and trust, loving each other. So, with that I’m going to introduce you to, actually she’s my therapist, Dr. Susan Block…. Take it away, Dr. Suzy.

Dr. SUZY
Where shall I take it away to, Capt’n Max?

MAX
You can take me anywhere, it’s just a dream.

Dr. SUZY
I’m taking you for a ride on the Love Train ’cause you’re looking for love from what I could hear.

MAX
Ok.

Dr. SUZY
And so, we’re Choo Choo’ing through the Tunnel of Love… Brothers and Sisters, Lovers and Sinners, and we see you all in the tunnel.

MAX
I know, I know.

Dr. SUZY
How you doing Capt’n Max?

MAX
I’m good, I’m a little stoned.

Dr. SUZY
Oh, that’s what’s going on.

MAX
Right… What happened was a friend of mine who does this or that gave me 2 pieces of chocolate.

Dr. SUZY
OK, brothers and sisters, lovers and sinners, we’re in a state of confusion and I think a lot of people are. So maybe it’s not that unusual, but I guess it feels very unsettling and unnerving.

As for me right now, I’m not sure where I am, or where my partner is, what his mind state is, so I guess I need to connect with you and maybe you can help.

And it’s coming up on Summer Solstice, usually a time of year that I really like. Summer. And who doesn’t love teeny bikinis and sex on the beach and a Moscow Mule by the pool?

A June honeymoon.

All nice beautiful sexy somewhat kinky Summer Solstice things. The Scandinavians and Shakespeare call this time Midsommar.

Of course, there’s that “Midsommar” horror movie that’s really kind of horrific. A lot of beautiful things are being made into horror shows these days. So maybe summer is another one of those things.

Summer solstice is a beautiful time to get warm, to feel the natural warmth of the sun, but with global warming, it’s a frightening time to think of too much warmth that brings drought and thirst and fire.

But really, summer solstice is a sexy sultry time. It’s a deeply Pagan holiday as all the best holidays are like Valentine’s Day, Christmas and Easter, at least originally.

The difference with summer solstice is really that the Church never picked it up and ruined it and turned it into some kind of fake pious party pooping observance that made everybody unsexual.

Somehow, Summer Solstice escapes that fate. At least it has so far, although religion is coming back, it’s so strange, isn’t it, Capt’n Max, that on the one hand we see in the news that the American people are getting less and less religious, that the general population of America, which is a very religious country, is getting less religious and more open sexually.

But you wouldn’t know that, looking at our leaders. They’re all falling all over each other to restrict sex and glorify religion, mostly Christianity, but any religion.

MAX
And to pacify. OK, pacify their voters-

Can you turn up my microphone?

Hear me? Thank you, thank you.

With my headset, I just want to hear my lovely voice.

…So that’s what’s going on right?

Dr. SUZY
That’s what’s going on, Capt’n Max. There’s a reversal going on of a lot of the great things that you have fought for all your life, all your many decades fighting for sexual freedom and fighting for freedom from religion, fighting for freedom to exist in our society without subscribing to one particular group’s set of fantasies.

We have our own fantasies. Some of them are sexual. Some of them might be about life after death. Some of them might be about other world. But these are fantasies, and sometimes we call them by the name of a religion.  It’s sort of like Scientology, except that’s a new one and the old ones are more respectable, like Christianity and Judaism and Islam and Hinduism and Buddhism and all the isms, just like Scientology have their fantasies.

But here’s the thing. When I was growing up, it seemed like these religious fantasies were going out of fashion. People kind of liked religion for ritual and to get together, but they didn’t really seem to believe in religious fantasies.

Nowadays, science is being so trashed. And I understand science isn’t always on the ball, but it’s a lot more on the ball than religion, and it’s being trashed like fake news. And so, people want something to believe in, so they go for some religion, whether it’s Scientology or Christianity.

MAX
Yeah, and I think the Christians in a way are very easy to convert.

Dr. SUZY
Oh yes, the Christians are right there, and the Jews and the Muslims.

MAX
Well, not so much the Jews.

Dr. SUZY
Maybe not.

MAX
They just want to ask you a lot of questions.

Dr. SUZY
Actually, yeah, they’re not that eager to convert non-Jews, you’re right. You converted so you know.

MAX
Yeah, this is a problem, right?

Dr. SUZY
The trouble they put you through.

MAX
But anyway…

Dr. SUZY
But now Israel is trying to get everybody that’s Jewish to go to Israel or support Israel unconditionally, which I certainly don’t want to do. I’m a Jew for Palestine.

I’m a little embarrassed about Israel, but that’s a whole other story.

Actually, I’m a lot embarrassed about Israel and maybe it’s part of this story. I always had learned that Israel was “a land without people for a people without land.” But it’s really a stolen land.

It’s very similar to America, which is also stolen land of course, and which is why it’s pretty arrogant for the United States to deny admission to certain Global South and Latin American countries to this meeting of the Americas that was held here in Los Angeles last week on my birthday, so I didn’t go.

But Abby Martin went, and she gave a very galvanizing speech.

MAX
Oh yeah, she was great.

Dr. SUZY
She was so great, I mean she’s so smart, and she’s so beautiful and so serious and so right on and so just in command of her facts and everyone’s attention, and so sexy. You don’t say that, but yeah, she’s very sexy.

MAX
Very sexy.

Dr. SUZY
And the Left needs sex appeal. Nothing wrong with it.

MAX
Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, no, absolutely not.

Dr. SUZY
Sex appeal in service of your cause. It’s what the somebody called “erotic capital,” and we need to use it.

And the Right wing is using it in some kind of weird way more than the Left wing which kind of shies away from sex appeal – or maybe they just don’t have it, poor things – except for certain lefties like Abby. But she’s so gorgeous she doesn’t even have to act sexy or show cleavage like me. She can just be, and she’s sexy.

MAX
That’s right.

Dr. SUZY
Some of us have to show cleavage and kick up our high heels to be sexy, so thank goddess for sexy Lefties like Abby.

MAX
Yeah.

Dr. SUZY
It’s almost Juneteenth, which I always feel a personal connection to since my birthday is June 10^th. Juneteenth sounds like June 10th, but it isn’t. It’s June 19th, which celebrates the freeing of the slaves.

We’re talking serious bonded real slavery. None of this nonsense that we sometimes think of as slavery.

MAX
Yeah, yeah.

Dr. SUZY
Of course, this real slavery wasn’t at all consenting adult slavery, which isn’t nonsense, but which can be a beautiful thing if it’s entered into with responsibility and love. Consenting adult kink can involve masters and mistresses and slaves and servants. It plays with the idea of real slavery, but it is entirely voluntary. But Juneteenth freed people from real slavery which was not consenting in the least.

And so, we celebrate that Juneteenth, which we’ve celebrated in Bonoboville for quite a while, over 20 years actually.

Dr. SUZY
Freedom is the greatest aphrodisiac, but restraint is a close second. That would be consenting restraint.

MAX
Freedom for all of us.

Dr. SUZY
Freedom for all of us?

MAX
Yeah, from slavery.

Dr. SUZY
Well, there’s different kinds of slavery.  Juneteenth celebrates the liberation from real physical slavery.

There’s also mental slavery, emotional slavery, the slavery to the capitalist system. But Juneteenth is freeing the slaves from real slavery where you really can’t leave, or you’ll be shot or beaten.

That’s some serious stuff and that’s the liberation we celebrate on Juneteenth.

But it’s true people have some funny definitions of “slavery” these days. And I know this because I learned it in a court of law. Remember when one of our past staff members who I actually wanted to leave because she was making violent advances on Mar? She didn’t actually do anything, but she made scary threats, and so I locked her out of the main area of Bonoboville-

MAX
An editor, she was an editor.

Dr. SUZY
Though she had her own area. I didn’t even make her leave that place, though I wanted her to leave. But she didn’t want to leave, and she wanted to harass me, so she sued me and said that I was keeping her as a slave.

MAX
Yeah, well.

Dr. SUZY
So, the judge asked her, “Can you leave?”

And she says, “Well, yes, but that’s not the point.”

So, he said, “Well, that’s the point of your lawsuit, and you’re not being kept as a slave. Case dismissed!”

The funny thing was I didn’t want her to be there. She was the opposite of the slave.

I wanted her to leave, but a lot of people try to call themselves “slaves,” if they’re just mad about something.

But Juneteenth freed real slaves from real slavery, and reminds us that this great, great nation, the United States of America, was built by slaves on stolen land.

MAX
That’s correct.

Dr. SUZY
And that’s one of the reasons it’s such a mess right now.

MAX
We should become partners.

Dr. SUZY
Partners?

MAX
To work with them.

Dr. SUZY
Well, I’m trying to translate what you mean by “partners.”

MAX
Oh, it’s not like, it’s not like-

Dr. SUZY
Do you mean just “equal” in America?

MAX
Was free. It’s not like Wall Street.

I have to apologize, yeah.

Dr. SUZY
OK, apologize, go ahead.

MAX
I apologize.

Dr. SUZY
Go ahead, apologize.

MAX
I did.

Dr. SUZY
I want to hear what your apology is. Maybe I’ll understand what you’re talking about.

MAX
OK.

Dr. SUZY
But speaking of Wall Street, another terrible thing happened after Juneteenth. I mean, just because the slaves were freed doesn’t mean they were treated right, and there was the terrible destruction of the Black Wall Street in Tulsa.

MAX
Oh, right.

Dr. SUZY
If you would like to join our conversation we are talking about sex, politics and bonobos and, it’s the Love Train, so we’re always talking about love, and we’re always promoting love. and it’s almost Summer Solstice, so we’re hoping to have a Bonobo Summer of Love.

MAX
Yeah.

Dr. SUZY
Although there’s so much hate in the air from all sides, it’s really disturbing.

But if you’d like to enhance the love and mitigate the hate, if you have a question about sex or love or a political comment, you could have a question about politics, but we’re not exactly politics experts. We are political activists, and we are sex experts, I guess. I kind of hate the word “sexperts.”

MAX
Hey, we we’re right up there with some of the most famous therapists of your time and my time.

Dr. SUZY
We were just noted in Twitter as one of the best sources of sex education in the Internet today by—let me see if I can get this right… I think it was called the United Church of Porn.

MAX
Oh yeah, yeah.

Dr. SUZY
Is that a thing?

MAX
No, no, yeah, well, no, but wasn’t there a guy that ran around with our friend who’s in prison? What was his name?

Dr. SUZY
I don’t know.

MAX
What’s his name? I’m asking for help!

Dr. SUZY
Oh no, this is now going to turn into Stoned Quiz Show Challenge.

MAX
Help me! What’s his name?

Dr. SUZY
This is my dread, that you get stoned and you start telling a story and then you expect me, like with this husbandly expectation, you expect that I will be able to fill in the names that you forget, and then I have no idea what you’re talking about.

MAX
How can I comment?

Dr. SUZY
Go ahead, tell the story, and maybe I’ll figure out who you’re talking about.

MAX
I don’t know this story.

Dr. SUZY
You were starting to tell a story about somebody somewhere.

MAX
Let’s start.

UNSCENE ABE
About one of your friends that are in prison.

MAX
Oh, what’s his name?

Dr. SUZY
Well, we don’t know his name.

MAX
Oh yes, Ron Jeremy.

Dr. SUZY
Ron Jeremy, our friend in prison.

MAX
Remember him?

Dr. SUZY
Of course, I say “poor Ron” because he’s been a friend for a long time.

I do not know of his guilt or innocence in what he’s been charged with, although he never did anything like that at the Speakeasy in Bonoboville. No, he didn’t. Although he was a handsy guy, you’d have to say no to get him to stop, but then once you said no, he stopped.

MAX
Oh yeah, yeah.

Dr. SUZY
So, but anyway, what were you trying to say about Ron Jeremy now that you brought him up?

MAX
Well, OK then.

Dr. SUZY
I’ve known Ron since before you and I got married, but when you bring him up, well, it’s a loaded name nowadays. You can’t really just bring him up casually.

MAX
No, but is it? But we should say, “I didn’t know the guy?”

Dr. SUZY
No, no, I would never say that. I definitely have been his friend for like 35 years, and I’m still his friend.

MAX
Yeah.

Dr. SUZY
But he’s lost it. Speaking of not being able to follow a thread, Ron has certainly developed some aging infirmities, some before, but mostly while in prison, which I think the prison life brings it on.

And by the way, I just want to say, America has more people in prison statistically than any place in the world, including I think China, which has a lot of people. And it’s just tragic that so many human lives are wasting away in prison.

Prison is another form of slavery.

MAX
Yeah.

Dr. SUZY
I mean they can’t get somebody like Ron to do anything productive.

But they have prison labor quite a bit.

So, slavery really does still exist in America and all over the world. Yep, here in America it is legal to make prisoners into slaves, to make them work for nothing and make a profit for their “owners,” especially if they’re in a for profit prison.

MAX
For profit prison.

Dr. SUZY
Well, there are for profit prisons they make money.

MAX
No, no, no.

Dr. SUZY
Yes, yes, yes.

MAX
I know, I know it’s true.

Dr. SUZY
I know it sounds crazy when you’re stoned especially, but seriously, it’s crazy that we have these things, these for-profit prisons that are modern slave plantations.

MAX
Let’s convict a few more.

Dr. SUZY
Well, exactly, that’s the mentality. They need bodies to fill it up, make a profit. Oh, absolutely.

So, I don’t know how we got onto that, but we should identify the train that we’re on, Capt’n MAX, you’re the captain of the ship of fools for love, and this is the Love Train called FDR.

MAX
OK. Right?

Dr. SUZY
F.D.R. are the initials of our 32nd President, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who was not perfect by any means. After all, he put the Japanese into internment camps, one of which is right here in Arcadia.

But he was a little bit of a socialist considering he was the Depression Era-equivalent of a billionaire, and he did do a little bit of socialist work for the people of America and kind of pulled us out of the Great Depression.

And so, we do tip our large hat to F.D.R., which also stands for Fuck Da Rich, which is why we can’t have nice things.

MAX
Fuck Da Rich.

Dr. SUZY
Because we have to be honest, we’re not corporate stooges. We’re not sell-outs (though we’re still on the market). We’re not exactly pornographers, but we’re also not all that squeaky clean.

In fact, we are very pro sex and when we say, “Fuck Da Rich,” we mean it in a positive way.

We think everybody should get fucked in a positive way. And keep in mind that the rich are just as miserable as we are, it’s just that they eat better, a lot better.

MAX
Yes, so yeah. Tell the guy down there may not be the right time for you.

Dr. SUZY
The guy down there?

MAX
I was looking down at my penis.

Dr. SUZY
Your penis is the guy down there?

I thought you were talking about a dead person under the soil, but you’re saying, “the guy down there,” meaning your penis.” So, tell the guy down there what? That you’re not ready?

MAX
No, no. Forget about it.

Dr. SUZY
I’m not going to forget about it.

MAX
Move on.

Dr. SUZY
Well, my name is Dr. Susan Block, and this is Capt’n Maximilian Rudolph Lebovic di Lobkowicz di Filangerie, and you are tuned into the F.D.R. Love Train, and I’m just trying to keep up with my husband’s various trains of thought. It’s like we’re not just on the one train. We are in not just Grand Central station, but someplace maybe in Europe where all the trains converge, in Frankfurt, no, that’s the airport.

MAX
Frankfurt, right, where the bonobos were.

Dr. SUZY
Oh you mean the Frankfurt Zoo during the Allied bombing of Frankfurt.

MAX
They died from the shock.

Dr. SUZY
Yes, the bonobos were traumatized when they heard the bombing, and while the common chimps didn’t care, the bonobos died of heart attacks.

That’s the problem with being sensitive and feeling the love, as opposed to the hate. Hate steels you like body armor. And that’s why it’s very attractive to more and more fearful people.  I get it, but it’s going to kill us.

Body armor cannot protect you from a nuclear bomb.

MAX
Right.

Dr. SUZY
And body armor can’t protect you from the bomb inside your brain.

Like we were saying, there are these prisons that we make inside of us. And sure, they’re not as bad as real slavery or real prison.

MAX
So it’s voluntary.

Dr. SUZY
Yes, it’s a voluntary prison, a voluntary form of slavery that we do to ourselves.

MAX
Yeah.

UNSCENE ABE
Right.

Dr. SUZY
It is consensual, I guess, because we do it to ourselves.

Even the rich do it to themselves, and that’s why we do say “Fuck Da Rich,” because you rich guys need to get fucked because, in your all-consuming greed, you put yourself through such paces that the taskmasters in ancient Egypt didn’t even put the Hebrews through.

Because actually that’s a made-up story, another religious fantasy, the whole story about the Hebrews being slaves in Egypt.

But back to the rich and their struggles. I see Elon Musk struggling so hard to be liked, to be loved by Twitter, by the Right, by somebody, or that woman, Grimes. He couldn’t even keep her happy with all his billions.

Now he’s freaking out that people are having sex for pleasure and not babies. He’s tweeting all about Idiocracy, that dumb people having children are creating a real Idiocracy.

UNSCENE ABE
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Dr. SUZY
But what’s his excuse?

MAX
Please really.

Dr. SUZY
He’s supposed to be a genius, but he’s an overweening preening idiot. Talk about Idiocracy.

MAX
No, yeah, but he’s also a conservative kind of individual.

Dr. SUZY
Yeah, of course. I wonder why?

MAX
Well, OK and yeah.

Dr. SUZY
All billionaires are conservative. Even the liberal billionaires are really conservative because how you become a billionaire if you’re not conservative? And these days, it’s way beyond conservatives, it’s monstrous.

MAX
And what if you had to say?

Dr. SUZY
It is total unfettered irresponsible and very unsexy greed.

MAX
What was that? Oh, I lost it, keep going.

Dr. SUZY
OK, so here’s what we’ve got to understand, or we’re doomed. The more unequal and brutal our so-called civilization gets – and it’s getting more unequal and brutal – the crazier people behave. And that is what people are doing. They are shooting up supermarkets and schools and they are saying crazy things and they are just going bananas. They are not going bonobos. And they and we are looking for explanations and directions through the madness.

And then the rich, the billionaires they come in, like they know what to do, to basically do the only thing they know how to do, make money, steal money, like Elon Musk and Bezos, as well as the handmaidens and hand-misters to the billionaires, the politicians who may not be billionaires themselves, but they’re still making a tidy sum and they come in with their winning PR which is very slick because it’s very expensive.

MAX
Yeah.

Dr. SUZY
And they say, hey, your real problem is with that guy or that guy on the other side, the immigrant, the person that’s different, or the group that’s different. If you’re a Right Wing person, your real problem is with the Left, if you’re a Left Wing person, your real problem is with the Right. And by that, I mean different factions, different groups, trying to pit it different citizens and human beings against each other instead of acknowledging the truth, that it’s the corruption, it’s the out and out theft and murder and fakery, and it’s the failure.

It’s their failure.

It’s the failure of our rulers or, as George Carlin would say, our owners. And their political and media henchmen. They have failed us. In the last few decades and right now, they have failed humanity itself.

And they’re pitting us against each other in their greedy, desperate attempt to keep a few more of their billions which, of course, they stole from us.

MAX
And you know when I think about Fuck Da Rich, it’s give back, it’s a give back program.

Dr. SUZY
Yes, the rich should give back.

MAX
Right, so we don’t have to fuck you in the ass.

Dr. SUZY
That’s what taxes are for. Now see there’s different ways to get fucked, rich people. You could do it the hard way, or you could do it the nice way, like, you could pay some taxes.

You could, you know, stop with this charity stuff, because you give to your own charities anyway. We all know that.

MAX
Exactly.

Dr. SUZY
You need to support programs that you have nothing to do with and pay taxes, a lot through taxes.

And we’ve got to have better oversight of these taxes, of course, and they shouldn’t all go to the military. Seriously, it’s like, yes, I believe billionaires should pay more taxes. But no, I don’t want my taxes – or their taxes for that matter – to go to this Brontosaurus Military.

I mean it’s not even a brontosaurus ’cause they were actually peaceful vegetarians. It’s just a monster or violent, horrific proportions, who is also the worst perpetrator of climate change, and that is the US military.

And now there’s all this anti-sex activity, including anti-sex laws.

MAX
It’s some kind of schizophrenic… Yeah, it’s so kind.

Dr. SUZY
And we’re encouraging violence.

“We,” meaning our leaders, not us.

MAX
Yeah, yeah, not us.

Dr. SUZY
We are not leaders. We’re just concerned citizens.

MAX
Well, we don’t really lead nobody, OK?

We do this because it’s fun.

Dr. SUZY
We try to help people with their sex life. By the way, if you’d like, you can give us a call at 213-291-9497 or 213-291-9497. You can have a serious issue or a frivolous fantasy. Though fantasies are not really frivolous. Sex is not frivolous. The bonobos show us that the only way to peace is through pleasure, through sharing pleasure.

Humans could do it too, share pleasures, and that includes food, aid, baby formula, and that includes money and that includes sex. That doesn’t mean you have to have sex with everybody.

MAX
Right.

Dr. SUZY
Especially now when we still have little viruses in the air, so we have to be careful, but we should share sexuality, sex positivity, sexual tolerance, fantasies, pleasures, and understand that some of the most important forms of sexual expression have nothing to do with reproduction, procreation, and the beautiful babies that we have too many of on this Earth now. Maybe you don’t think so, but I think that’s because you think those babies should only be of a certain color, because when you think about it without considering color, there’s just way too much humanity.

Some of us are not reproducing at the same rates as others, and I think that’s just fine, that’s life, and I don’t need my Raza to reproduce any faster than your Raza.

It’s about the Human Raza anyway.

MAX
Right, yeah.

Dr. SUZY
And certain people, and it’s usually poor people, are reproducing faster because they got nothing else, so they have kids.

MAX
In human race.

Dr. SUZY
And because in America, with the Hyde Amendment, we didn’t allow poor people easy access to free abortions, and now we’re certainly not going to allow them to get abortions at all.

Now we’re not even going to let him have abortions in some states. So only the rich will be able to leave to have abortions. But why do the rich want the poor to have more babies?

MAX
They need the factory filled.

Dr. SUZY
Yes, with workers, with slaves. They need the prisons filled to.

MAX
Yeah.

Dr. SUZY
Let us celebrate Juneteenth, Brothers and Sisters, and let us free ourselves from this slavery that is rampant, that is ongoing, that equates sex with reproduction.

Sex is about recreation, too, and I don’t know what the percentage is (I’m not a statistician), but the great majority of sex that is practiced by humans, as well as bonobos, does not result in any kind of reproduction and isn’t for reproduction or procreation.

MAX
Correct.

Dr. SUZY
It’s for recreation.

MAX
Yes.

Dr. SUZY
And for relationships.

MAX
All this stuff is brilliant, really brilliant.

Dr. SUZY
Well, thank you. We are on the cusp of the Summer Solstice, which marks the moment of the longest day of the year when the Sun is directly above the Tropic of Cancer and the Northern Hemisphere supposedly basks in the most sunlight of the year, unless it’s cloudy, which it’s always been in Southern California at this time, but not lately, because Climate Change. Remember June Gloom?

MAX
June Gloom.

Dr. SUZY
There isn’t really much June Gloom now. Have you noticed?

MAX
Yeah, where’s June Gloom?

Dr. SUZY
I used to always be very aware of it because it’s my birthday month, and now it always seems like it’s sweltering hot around my birthday. There’s no more June Gloom, no more fog, and June Gloom really wasn’t gloomy. We just said that because it wasn’t like bright sunny summer. But I miss it.

Jux Lii says “nature has to trick us into making babies.”

Right, that’s right, we don’t really want to. That’s not why we want or need to have sex, folks. Well, one of the things we need is to engage in sexual activity that isn’t about procreation, that is about relation and recreation and that helps us to stay connected and it helps us to stay sane.

Because all these ammosexual guys… and they are mostly guys. Really, some of them are girls, women and trans people I suppose, but really probably we could count them on a couple of hands, the amount that aren’t guys. Most ammosexuals are guys, and although there are senior citizens that are into it and middle-aged dudes, it’s an awful lot of young guys.

As sex therapists, we talk to a lot of guys like this, and they are what, Max?

MAX
Hmmm?

Dr. SUZY
Horny.

MAX
Horny.

Dr. SUZY
Horny to the point they’re bursting at the seams.

MAX
And fearful.

Dr. SUZY
But if they’re told that sex is bad by both the Right and the Left.

MAX
And the Middle.

Dr. SUZY
The Right tells you it’s bad because it’s against religion. You have to only have sex to make babies.

The Left says, “Well, it’s not just to make babies, but you have to be politically correct, and you have to use all the right terminology, or you don’t deserve to have sex, you creep!”

And so, this typical guy that has testosterone just firing through his system and this desire to have sex and told by both sides that you can’t have sex and you shouldn’t even masturbate because that indicates that you’re either going to hell if you’re Right Wing, or you’re just a loser, I suppose, if you’re Left Wing.

MAX
Or if you’re Catholic, you could go to hell.

Dr. SUZY
It’s a very sex negative message that a lot of these young guys are getting in their teens and 20s. And these are the guys that are also getting the message that shooting guns is OK. Not just OK, but cool, cool hip, hip. And they see their comic book heroes with superpowers. Of course, they don’t need guns, they just shoot bullets out their fingers. But they also see guys shooting guns on Westerns. They see guys all over the place who are representing the powerful, respected manly gun-toting gun-shooting man.

How many sex-positive guys do they see that are respected?

MAX
Nobody.

Dr. SUZY
Certainly, the porn stars are disrespected. Some of them are in jail.

MAX
Right, right the only people is the people that exploit that sexuality.

Dr. SUZY
Not to say they might not deserve it. Well, of course the media exploits beauty all the time. That’s considered okay.

MAX
Will it be Right Wing or Left Wing, right?

Dr. SUZY
The media honors beauty and sex appeal, but that’s different than being sex positive. To be sex positive is not respected.

MAX
I agree actually.

Dr. SUZY
Beauty is respected by everybody because it hits us so deeply on such a personal level. But sex positivity is not respected by mainstream media or almost any media. So therefore, you have all these horny frustrated dudes who are hearing sex is bad, porn is really bad, but it’s glorious, it’s heroic to go out in a hail of bullets.

As long as you got your body armor on and your AR15 in your hand and a bunch of other guns in your car.

MAX
And you’re all set with your God.

Dr. SUZY
And you’re all set with your God, who carries a gun, I guess, sits on a throne with a gun. That’s what we got now. That’s what we got.

Now we got guns for everybody, and sex, really, for almost nobody.

MAX
It’s dangerous.

Dr. SUZY
Right.

MAX
Sex is dangerous.

Dr. SUZY
Sex is dangerous. But war is perfectly fine.

So now I have my messages are coming in because they were stalled in the Tunnel of Love, so y’all can call us, you know, I do like phone calls, but you can also write to us on our various platforms and tonight we are on Facebook and are we on Twitter.

MAX
They couldn’t find it away.

Dr. SUZY
We are on Twitter in the Spaces.

MAX
Are we on our own dot com?

Dr. SUZY
And we’re on our own DrSusanBlock.com, as well as FDRradio.com and we are on YouTube, although YouTube likes to play games with us as to whether we’re on or not. Actually, Facebook does the same thing. They’re drunk on power. And we’re on Instagram and so here we go.

Kristen Rock always sends these fire emojis, I guess to indicate that we’re on fire or he’s on fire.

MAX
To land then which part of us is on fire?

Dr. SUZY
Henry Hernandez says, “Have a beer on me with your Captain. And you got a point, Doctor, on Israel and America.”

I’m not sure which point. I made a few, but the main one I’m making is that the myth is that both Israel and America were these lands without people for people without land.  In Israel, it was the Jews. In America, it started with the Puritans and extended to all the European settlers, and really both are cases of horrific theft of land.

Dr. SUZY
And then the slavery in America.

So anyway, I am a Jew for Palestine, and I am an American for the Turtle Islanders. That was the original name of America. “America” was just a name on a map named after the mapmaker. He didn’t even necessarily name it in America. He just signed his name on the map. Amerigo Vespucci.

So, Harry Sapien says, “America was built on slavery and indentured servants and immigrants.”

True, but at least the indentured servants and the immigrants, you know, had some possibilities. I’m going to say that’s different, Harry, from slavery, where you got no choice.

MAX
Much choice.

Dr. SUZY
The immigrants, maybe they have some choice.

MAX
You always have a choice of stepping away.

Dr. SUZY
Well, you could kill yourself, although in some prisons you can’t even kill yourself.

MAX
That’s a problem too there, but don’t you know it’s OK, but the human condition is certainly flying along.

Dr. SUZY
Yes indeed, Brothers and Sisters, flying along.

MAX
Singing a song.

Dr. SUZY
And choo-choo’ing down the railroad tracks.

MAX
And if anyone is listening, I need another beer.

Dr. SUZY
And we are celebrating the 157th anniversary of Juneteenth, also known as Freedom Day, the Emancipation Day of the slaves in America, really, a true Independence Day. We’ve actually been celebrating for a couple of decades, but it is now an official holiday and it started, I guess, back in 1865 because Abraham Lincoln delivered the Emancipation Proclamation in order to outlaw slavery in 1862. But there was no Twitter back then or Tiktok or Instagram. So, it took until June 19th, Juneteenth 1865, for the news to reach Texas. Ted Cruz’ ancestors were probably running Texas back then, so they wanted to keep the slaves around for a few more years, you know, get a little more work out of them.

MAX
Right, right, right.

Dr. SUZY
So that’s when they found out that’s when the federal troops finally arrived and freed 250,000 human beings from the appalling all-American institution of slavery. And that was when Juneteenth was born. And here in Bonoboville, we’ve been celebrating since we first heard about it 22 years ago during the Democratic Convention in the year 2000 with a group of political kinksters from the Al Gore campaign who came over to our Democratic Sex art exhibit and spanked each other and told us about Juneteenth.

MAX
Right, right, yeah. Yeah, we have video of that somewhere.

Dr. SUZY
Yes, we do.

MAX
Where?

Dr. SUZY
I know where.

MAX
Oh, you know where?

Dr. SUZY
Somewhere on DrSusanBlock.Tv. Look around and you’ll find it eventually.

MAX
And we all give you this. This is all free, by the way.

Dr. Suzy!

Dr. SUZY
MBGD says “Hi Susan from Serbia” on YouTube. Speaking of Serbia, I want to apologize to Serbia for America bombing them in 1999. Even though I did support Billy Jeff Clinton when he was impeached because I think he should have been able to get a blowjob and keep his day job. I did not think that sex should have been the subject of impeachment. And lying about a sexual affair shouldn’t rise to the level of impeachable perjury.  I didn’t think that was appropriate, so I supported Clinton in that fight. But I was not for him wagging the dog and bombing Serbia, and involving NATO, didn’t NATO get involved?

MAX
I don’t know. They did, of course.

Dr. SUZY
Interestingly, the Serbians are Russian.

MAX
Yeah, of course, right. That’s what’s going on right now. It’s a continuation of that.

Dr. SUZY
We abhor Putin’s war.

MAX
Russia wants all that back, but-

Dr. SUZY
But we are not against Russians or Serbians. In fact, we love Moscow Mules.

MAX
Yes, absolutely.

Dr. SUZY
I really feel that there is hope for diplomacy. There has to be. We must avoid nuclear war, one way or the other. I’m not going to talk about what way right now.

Go Boy says, Ted Cruz reminds him of a Zorro villain. Yes, twirling his handlebar mustache is very Zorro villainish. He’s really Toad Cruz and Cancun Cruz

MAX
Oh my God, that guy.

Dr. SUZY
How can people vote for him? Toad Cruz just proves how guns are in and sex is out, because he favors no gun control, and he has the sex appeal of a toad. Actually, toads are cuter than Toad Cruz, and you can kiss them, and they become Princes, but Toad Cruz will never be a Prince.

MAX
Do you get bumps in skin?

Dr. SUZY
Vote for Beto.

MAX
Oh yeah, Beto, Beto, that guy

Dr. SUZY
Yeah Beto, his name reminds me of the whole idea of a Beta Male.

MAX
No, he’s cool.

Dr. SUZY
Yeah, and you know what? I am all for the Beta Male. Who needs these crazed violent Alpha Males? They’re killing us. Let’s go for the Beta Male.

MAX
Somebody just told me a story tonight that they visit down there and when they went, go to wash their hands. It seems like they can never get the soap off the skin and so she asked her to hand to whoever that was, and they said that’s because it’s oil in the water.

Dr. SUZY
The water of what?

MAX
From your sink.

Dr. SUZY
Which sink?

MAX
At your house.

Dr. SUZY
My house?

MAX
Yeah, if you live in certain areas.

Dr. SUZY
Ohhhhh, you mean in Texas.

MAX
Yeah.

Dr. SUZY
Whew. You know it takes real concentration to know when you go off on these tangents, like, where you’re going.

MAX
I’m not going anywhere.

Dr. SUZY
I see.

MAX
First of all, I have had a little much to drink, so I have to be very careful walking out to the motorhome.

And secondly, I have another glass here, and third, I feel so far, it’s been a great show.

How much time do we have to go?

Dr. SUZY
Not much.

MAX
I’m not so.

UNSCENE ABE
Half an hour.

MAX
Half an hour. OK cool.

Dr. SUZY
So Go Boy on YouTube has a lot to say. YouTube’s been so funny with us lately. They threaten to censor us and then they don’t, but sometimes they do. They almost censored my birthday show.

MAX
Did they let us on?

Dr. SUZY
Yeah, we’re on. Everything is cool, but they put us on edge. They’re just flexing their muscles.

Jux Lii says, “Housing is expensive enough already.”

MAX
All that could be spam.

Dr. SUZY
Stop making so many damn people and stop killing them once they’re already alive.

Why is it the people that want more babies born are also the same ones that seem to want to kill them?

MAX
Right.

Dr. SUZY
And let them be killed.

We are here to support the Bonobo Way, and we’re talking about sex, politics and bonobos on the Love Train, FDR, and Max is in the dining car.

MAX
I’m in the dining car.

Dr. SUZY
At the bar.

MAX
Let me hear that train roll along.

Dr. SUZY
Oh yeah, and it’s Juneteenth.

Yeah, and everybody celebrating except Hershel Walker. By the way, if you’re in Georgia, please vote for the Reverend Warnock.

Our first real Juneteenth celebration was really sexy, maybe too sexy for nowadays, because we had a beautiful naked Diana Devoe who was shackled to the Bondage Cross. She had just started this urban erotica company with her husband Alexander Devoe, and it became a great success, but this was her first appearance on the show, and it happened to be Juneteenth and she just did this whole beautiful scene in which we freed her from the Bondage Cross.

MAX
It was great.

Dr. SUZY
But somehow, I feel like it would be politically incorrect to do right now, so I’m glad we did it when we did it.

You okay? You know you’re just staring into space.

MAX
Well, actually, I had this beer and then I don’t smoke stuff anymore.

Dr. SUZY
But you had the chocolate, you had the edibles. With strong edibles, you got to be careful.

MAX
Right, they tell me only a little piece.

Dr. SUZY
But you were hungry. You’re a man of appetites.

MAX
It’s helped me out. Yes, yeah, so yes.

Dr. SUZY
Have you been watching the Insurrection trials?

MAX
A little.

Dr. SUZY
Not that they’re telling us anything new, except everybody is a little more disgusting than maybe we thought, or it just reminds us of how disgusting they are.

MAX
No nothing.

Dr. SUZY
And so here we are. I have to kind of agree with the right wingers that we already know a lot of this stuff and there are so many urgent matters, but I have to agree with Democrats that it is important to prosecute this type of violence. And the problem is that the real perpetrators of this violence aren’t going to jail. They aren’t sitting in jail waiting because they can’t make bail, like the Trumps and Rudy Giuliani, your fellow drinking buddy, and My Pillow Guy, and some of these Senators and Congresspeople that just pushed this. It was a farce.

We can’t really call it a coup with a straight face – Coup-Anon? – but it was violent, and it enhances the violence of the fascist movement that is really looming throughout our world. And all we got between us, and doom are these little Democrats, this guy that falls off a bike and has a terrible meeting of the Americas and doesn’t even invite all the Americas. I can’t support you Joe, when you’re like that and I want to support you because I don’t want Trump or the guy in Florida, DeSantis.  These choices are terrible. And I do believe in the lesser of two evils, Max.

MAX
That’s the only way it works.

Dr. SUZY
I always vote for the lesser of two evils, so the Democrats get my vote, but they don’t get my uncritical support.

MAX
Sometimes, right, it’s not all evil, it’s all not.

Dr. SUZY
Well, there’s too much evil, and besides the Democrats certainly have supported SESTA, FOSTA and all the anti-sex rulings, and the Democrats, although they support access to abortion and freedom of choice, they certainly have done nothing to codify it.

MAX
Yeah, yeah.

Dr. SUZY
They have done nothing to make it a law when they had the majorities to make it a law, and now they cynically want to use it to get votes, and they’ll get them. They’ll get mine. But they probably won’t get enough.

So Jux Lii says, “Don’t forget good old fashioned genocide, Harry.”

Yes, this country is founded on genocide.

MAX
I got… Yeah, big time.

UNSCENE ABE
Right?

MAX
Those are things you can’t talk about.

Dr. SUZY
Well, you can, and we do.

MAX
You can, and we do.

Dr. SUZY
And it is talked about more and more actually. And I have this vision that it will be talked about more and more, and they are going to turn Mount Rushmore back into the Six Grandfathers. They’re going to take those faces off, and put them in a museum, and they’re going to turn it back into the Six Grandfathers, which is a Native American holy place.

Not that I believe in any of these religions, including the Native religions, but at least the native religions are not about this one God that is in charge of everything and everyone. They’re about a lot of different spirits.

MAX
Yeah, a lot of different spirits.

Dr. SUZY
So I respect that more in my freedom of religion world.

Harry says, “Seems the South likes to make babies, then throw them into the military industrial complex.”

MAX
Hey yeah.

Dr. SUZY
Yes indeed.

MAX
Absolutely, I mean, and they can do that and it’s all OK, but it’s not OK.

So, you have the opportunity to say I really would not like to go there.

Dr. SUZY
It’s not OK because the poor of the South don’t have the choice. I mean, Governor Abbott can always send his relatives to California for an abortion or whatever they might need.

MAX
And around the world.

Dr. SUZY
A bulletproof vest, tires, whatever they can’t get in Texas.

MAX
Everybody is getting paranoid now.

Dr. SUZY
I don’t even know if it’s paranoia.

MAX
What is it?

Dr. SUZY
Fear.

MAX
Basic fear.

Dr. SUZY
Just your basic fear that something bad could happen. and bad things are happening.

MAX
Basic fear.

Dr. SUZY
Yeah fear, not paranoia. Because things really are out to get us. Climate change is out to get us, and this anti sex movement is out to get us. And so is this pro-gun movement that wants you to use a gun instead of your penis. That is out to get us.

And to that I say shoot the gun between your legs, brothers and sisters.

Yes, Sisters, you too can shoot, from your clit.  Hey ladies squirt too sometimes, and even if we don’t squirt, we can have multiple orgasms and lots of fun anyway, lots of fun. Nothing wrong with masturbation even though it’s not Masturbation Month, nothing wrong with kink, even if it’s not DomCon or Kink Month… Make Kink Not War, Brothers and Sisters.

Remember that our leaders who are so greedy, they’re sexually frustrated too.

MAX
And they’re dis-informing you.

Dr. SUZY
They’re dis-informing you out of greed. Some of them have reputations for sexual prowess, mostly for sexual perversion of one sort or another, but they don’t exhibit a genuine joyous sexuality, or they wouldn’t be the corporate billionaires they are. They’re greedy, and they’re making a lot of mistakes out of greed.

MAX
Yeah, but you need to, you know, share the greed.

Dr. SUZY
You need to share the wealth. This world is a wealthy world, brothers and sisters, even though there are too many human beings, that’s for sure. But even so, we still have enough food, even with Russia controlling the wheat, we still do have enough. It’s just that some small amount of people and big corporations control it. And that keeps people hungry.

But we live in a world that has abundance. We could be bonobos. After all, that’s why bonobos are bonobos. Because they live in the abundant rainforest. That’s why they make peace through pleasure. That’s why they make love, not war. That’s why the females are empowered, and the males have good sex and a relatively good life.

MAX
They’re not lacking.

Dr. SUZY
Right, they’re not lacking. They share. None of them have too much.

MAX
I’d like that.

Dr. SUZY
But among humans, some of us have too much and it hurts us all, especially that have very little, but also the people that have too much as well. Some of them do all right, but most of them are miserable, not as miserable as you and me though when we gotta struggle for a living, but they gotta struggle to hold onto their money. Once you make money, you start to find out you gotta struggle to hold onto it, and if you hire people to do, can you trust them?

MAX
Watch out for fraudsters.

Dr. SUZY
That takes a lot of energy. It’s very stressful, and so you’re angry. You’re raging at the poor. You want to give people less money, share less, even though you’re a billionaire! You’re raging at your workers. You want to smash their unions. And you chase your wife away.

MAX
Yeah.

Dr. SUZY
Anyway, Go Boy on YouTube says, “Does anyone see any morbid comparisons between Ukraine and other war zones and the US?”

Ha! I can tell you someone who sees one of those comparisons right now:  George W Bush.  Matter of fact when he was giving a speech a couple weeks ago.

MAX
Did you hear that?

Dr. SUZY
He said it right out loud for everyone to hear. He said, “Hey, in some countries they got a dictatorship, and the dictator can illegally and brutally invade another country like happened in Iraq… I mean Ukraine.”

Haha, Iraq too, you know, he said.

MAX
Ha ha.

Dr. SUZY
“Iraq too,” he said, ’cause he isn’t that dumb.

MAX
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Dr. SUZY
He was a C student at Yale, but Dubya’s not that dumb, he’s just evil.

MAX
There, that’s it, that’s it.

Dr. SUZY
I met his daughter at Yale, and she was sort of nice, but whatever. Evil can be nice.

MAX
It’s an oil family.

Dr. SUZY
Yeah, it’s all kind of evil.

MAX
An oil family has been exploiting.

Dr. SUZY
But somehow you had to give it to Bush Senior for being a little more of a gentleman about it all. I mean, I guess I just see Junior as worse and I am more upset at him being rehabilitated by certain Democrats who are just so upset about Trump, and I don’t like Trump either, but that doesn’t make me like the Cheneys. Sorry, Dick Cheney is despicable, and I mean, I think Liz Cheney is right that Trump should be prosecuted, but I don’t like Liz Cheney, and I don’t like the Bushes, especially W.

Actually, I kind of like his wife. She’s a hot librarian. But she’s his wife, so I don’t really like her, and she killed her ex-boyfriend accidentally, with her car.

MAX
In the middle in the night.

Dr. SUZY
Yeah. The Bushes are killers.

Putin is not the first evil dictator to illegally invade another country. We have had a few including W, and including all of our presidents who went to Vietnam, and yeah, even a little country like Grenada. It’s terrible. And that’s why we can’t get on our high horse about it. Although I love horses and I had a good time at the Derby, sort of.

MAX
That was fun.

Dr. SUZY
I like horsing around.

MAX
I saw the pictures.

Dr. SUZY
But I don’t want to get on my high horse about Putin.

MAX
Yeah, yeah, get off of us. Poor knucklehead.

Dr. SUZY
I abhor Putin’s war. There are different ways to stop it, and I don’t pretend to know the way, but I would like to see it stopped as soon as possible with as little bloodshed as possible. So, I don’t demonize Putin as much as some people do. Actually, I would like to see a Dominatrix take control of him, tie him up, spank his stupid ass and just stop him.

But I am hearing that other Russians are behind this invasion, just as other Americans were behind our invasions of Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan and Grenada and Serbia and Libya. So, I don’t know if it just takes, you know, getting rid of Putin. I wish. I hope. I don’t know.

MAX
Listen, yeah, no, no.

Dr. SUZY
I just want to be bonobo about it.

MAX
Yeah, be Bonobo, throw out a lot of those things that they’ve put into your head.

MAX
You know and enjoy life.

Dr. SUZY
And let other people enjoy life.

MAX
You know, right? Yeah, and please respect and that other people enjoy life.

UNSCENE ABE
Alright, so I wanted to say a couple of comments since we can’t read them.

Go Boy says, “Does anyone see the any morbid comparisons between Ukraine and other war zones and the US?”

Dr. SUZY
Yeah, I did see that.

UNSCENE ABE
“In these in the US we treat gun violence as inevitable as a natural disaster. Yet we are shocked at the brutality and violence in other places, sad” and that’s from Go boy.

Dr. SUZY
Go Boy is part of the show now. Yeah, Go Boy, I agree with you about all of that and more.

UNSCENE ABE
I never.

Dr. SUZY
And I do see the analogy with the Russian invasion of Ukraine, not just with our wars but also with our individual ammosexual Americans who invade supermarkets and schools and massage parlors.

And yes, this is related to a deep male desire to invade, to penetrate and I respect and actually have quite often enjoyed that desire, and I say we must acknowledge that desire and see it for what it could be, for what it is, a beautiful sexual desire to penetrate, to become one with the penetrated.

And somehow this basic male sexual desire is being perverted into violence and war, and this is true perversion in Russia and in America by all of our great powers. It’s all about perverting male sexual natural energy into horrific murder and mayhem, and perhaps the end of humanity.

No biggie, just that.

MAX
Just another moment in time.

Dr. SUZY
Lily Garnett says we have the technology to feed everyone in every house in every world in the world, but we don’t do it. Exactly. We do. That’s the difference between bonobos and common chimps. Bonobos live in a land of abundance.

MAX
Say again.

Dr. SUZY
Common ships live in a land of competition and scarcity. As for us humans, we really do live in a world of abundance. Like bonobos, we could live the Bonobo Way if we wanted to, and if our leaders let us, but our leaders choose to pit us against each other, to create scarcity, to turn us into common chimps, or as our friend Dr. Frans de Waal says, to emphasize our inner chimp as opposed to our inner bonobo, because humans have both possibilities.

That inner chimp can turn a beautiful desire to penetrate into a horrific bombing or killing, murder and mayhem.

UNSCENE ABE
War, war.

MAX
10 minutes. 10 minutes Dr. Suzy.

Dr. SUZY
Capt’n Max, please, you should speak about what is on your mind.

MAX
Well, I have been looking at you and you are so beautiful. Thank you for so many years.

Dr. SUZY
Yes, you are wearing your pearls, the symbol of our 30th wedding anniversary.

MAX
I did that.

Dr. SUZY
The pearls.

MAX
30 years.

I recommend that you spend it together, share by living together, working together, and multiply.

Dr. SUZY
Multiply what?

MAX
How much time we have together.

Dr. SUZY
Oh, I see. Most people think of multiply as reproducing, procreation, be fruitful, and multiply.

UNSCENE ABE
Procreation.

MAX
Oh no, no, no.

Dr. SUZY

“P’ru Or’vu”are the words in Hebrew. Be fruitful and multiply.

MAX
I do not mean that.

I mean you wanna procreate? I’m all for that. You just need to know what happens.

Dr. SUZY
What happens? Well, it’s Father’s Day, in addition to it being Juneteenth, as well as Summer Solstice. So, you being a father, how do you feel?

MAX
Did I get any flowers?

Dr. SUZY
Aren’t you a father of some sort?

MAX
Oh me, more like a counselor.

Dr. SUZY
Is that a legal advisor?

MAX
Haha, yes, almost a legal advisor.

Dr. SUZY
Well, happy Father’s Day.

MAX
Well, thank you, thank you, anyway, you look beautiful.

That’s what I’ve been thinking about, and I’ve been thinking about where my world is going and possibly your world.

Dr. SUZY
Where is your world going, and why is it going someplace different than my world?

MAX
Oh no, it’s the same world, we’re in the same world.

Dr. SUZY
OK good. It’s nice to take another train ride with you on FDR.

MAX
And, ah, so… It’s so nice, right? Very nice, well… Like that?

We’ve been doing this for so long, I’m always amazed.

Dr. SUZY
What are you amazed by?

MAX
By you.

Dr. SUZY
Oh wow, I like to be amazing.

MAX
Keep going, keep going, is there more?

Dr. SUZY
Well OK, so Go Boy now says, “I don’t have anything against porn, but do you ever wonder if it’s causing any harm? It’s so easy to obtain. And it’s so easy we don’t have to use our imaginations and we don’t have to truly connect if we only rely on porn.”

MAX
Oh, my goodness.

Dr. SUZY
George Orwell’s 1984 had many statements about the prevalence of free and cheap pornography in the future.

OK, let me address this quickly because we have to go.

Pornography can cause harm. So can food. All kinds of food causes harm. You can get food poisoning; you can eat food that’s bad for you. But does that mean you shouldn’t eat any food? No, you should eat food. You should try to find food you enjoy, try new foods. You should experiment and try different foods and take the risk with some education. You shouldn’t take too much of a risk. You shouldn’t eat old food. Likewise, you shouldn’t consume porn that you know is bad, if you don’t like it, you should watch something else. You should try to get a porn education, learn where to find the stuff that you like. Unfortunately, our society does not encourage any kind of sex education, let alone porn education. But there is such a thing as porn education. There are many, many, many different types of porn and there should be porn education for people like you Go Boy, and for people like me, for all of us to know where to find the kind of erotica that we might like. It’s not easy. So, we generally just consume whatever is thrown at us, whatever is free, whatever is easy, which is likely to be trash… just like food. I get it, and I get your criticism. Porn needs improvement, but that doesn’t mean you do away with it. That’s just like saying well McDonald’s is bad for you, so you shouldn’t eat.

As Max sometimes says, all porn is a depiction of sexuality. It’s people making love, people having some form of sex, and these days it doesn’t even have to be real people, because it can be cartoons.

MAX
Porn is everywhere.

Dr. SUZY
And sex doesn’t have to be intercourse. It doesn’t have to be PIV, Penis-in-Vagina intercourse. No, it can be all kinds of things. It can be blowjobs, pussy eating, kink, a kiss or a caress. It can be just enjoying the wind rippling against your flesh, as you think about some hot porn that you saw a couple days ago. You know your imagination is fed by your experiences as well as porn. Why shouldn’t it be if it’s going to be fed by Hollywood?

Hollywood features war and is half sponsored by the US military, which features comic book heroes which features murder and mayhem, dressed up in pretty colors. If our sexual fantasies are going to be influenced by these militaristic Hollywood movies, why not a little porn? What’s wrong with that? I’d rather have my sexual fantasies influenced by sexual erotica than by comic books and the military.

Hollywood movies mostly are military propaganda. Which makes young people want to shoot guns like Top Gun. Is that better than porn?

I’d rather they shoot the gun between their legs. At least, most porn encourages consent. There’s a little bit of rapey stuff out there unfortunately, but it mostly encourages consent. It mostly requires consent.

Yeah, Go Boy’s having a real conversation with me.

MAX
Hahaha.

Dr. SUZY
In the book – what book? – porn is described as being printed on cheap newspaper and it was so prevalent it floated through cities.

UNSCENE ABE
He’s talking about 1984.

Dr. SUZY
Oh, 1984, OK, I read 1984 a long time ago and it’s a great book, and George Orwell was a great prophet and a socialist, and he also had sexual problems, by the way.

MAX
Ah well, I don’t.

Dr. SUZY
I’m not going to get into a critique of George Orwell. He was a great writer, but he was not a perfect person, nor was he a perfect writer.  No one is perfect. For instance, bonobos are not vegetarians, they do eat meat and though they don’t kill each other, they do fight. So, they are not perfect. None of us are perfect. This whole anti sex movement, and the anti-porn movement, is about this idea of perfection. You know where perfection leads us? Death.

What is it you always say Capt’n Max? The ideal is the enemy of the real.

MAX
Yes, the ideal is the enemy of the real.

Dr. SUZY
There is no ideal sex. Sex is always going to be filled with issues. Real sex, whether it’s depicted in porn or not, you may not like it. It may not be perfect for you. It may offend you. You may have a problem with it. Somebody who made it may not seem like they’re really into it for you.  Many issues could arise.

Nevertheless, sex is better than war. Sex is better than murder. Let’s work on our issues, of course, but let’s be sex-positive. That’s all I’m saying. Go Boy says thanks. We gotta go.

Make love, not war, make kink, not war. Go bonobos for sex. And by the way, when I say “sex,” when I say “kink,” I mean consenting sex and consensual kink.  I know I don’t say the word consent every second, but that’s what I mean.

So… make like bonobos, not baboons. Make love, not war. Make love to someone you love tonight, even if that someone is you.

I love you.

Show Length 01:21:06  Date: June 18, 2022

© June 18,  2022 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 213-291-9497.