Comments on: Go Bonobos in 2025

By: Michael Donnelly

Michael Donnelly — Sun, 11 May 2025 23:39:52 +0000

Great piece. I know what you and Max are dealing with is hard. Great you’ve got your love to count on.
When Ram Dass had his stroke everyone thought it was over for him. But, after a time, our pal Wavy Gravy said of the aphasia to him “Well, you always were the master of the pregnant pause.” And that convinced RD to come back up to Breitenbush and doing another 10-day workshop.

A lot of people learned that it is not the end. I even led 180 attendees on a silent hike through the Ancient Forest, where others had driven RD to a trailhead a mile out, carried him and wheelchair down to the trail where once we got there, the surprised, silent hikers then sat in silence with him in the forest he loved. A Goshawk feather floated down from the canopy and landed in RD’s lap! Not a word was spoken, but a lot was communicated.

By: Moushumi Ghose

Moushumi Ghose — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 06:15:13 +0000

Yes 2024 was a lot. Glad to hear Max is responding to pleasure!! And now the let’s hope 2025 is better!

By: David Rosen

David Rosen — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 04:31:45 +0000

Susan- great piece. Have a good bonobo New Year and much strength with your Max

By: Veronica Monet

Veronica Monet — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 18:58:04 +0000

So sorry for Max’s stroke, I too am coping with my life partner’s disability. Lots in your article that reflects my views in these troubled times. And yet, Happy New Year Suzy

By: Marianna Constantin

Marianna Constantin — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 18:28:51 +0000

Thank you for your excellent new year’s piece on Counterpunch about your husband, the greedy American medical industry, the terrible Trump, the Zionist genocide and the beautiful peaceful caretaking bonobos which I now need to learn ALL about. Brava!

By: Stephen F. Eisen

Stephen F. Eisen — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 11:48:30 +0000

Your story today was sad and funny and frustrating and inspiring.

I wish you and your husband/simian lover the very best luck for more life, pleasure and struggle.

And thanks.

Stephen F Eisenman
(Also a Counterpunch writer)

By: Alan

Alan — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 11:43:17 +0000

Israel is defending abortion rights in Gaza as in the Golan, as India is doing in Kashmir, England in the Falklands and Guyana in it’s west. Since Colombia won abortion rights, I have been unsure if immigration is a threat to US and Canadian abortion rights, but I am certain that European immigration is a threat to their abortion rights. California would not have abortion rights without being seized from Mexico.
In Golan and Gaza, there is some problem with more abortion rights being won by the land than by the women, And the US Navy has been able to build better piers ever since Normandy. plus many types of food can simply be dumped into the water and expected to drift onto Gazan beaches, so the failure of the pier was a problem. But Hamas and even their distant supporters are hardly bonobos. The hostages were closer.

By: Greg Freeman

Greg Freeman — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 10:45:29 +0000

Dr. Block,
Thank you for the inspirited Counterpunch piece. It prompted a couple of thoughts, one you may find seriously helpful, the other as whimsically compelling as it is implausible.

Manuka honey. It has good reviews as a bedsore healing agent. I didn’t get a chance to urge its use on my mother’s gnarly case, but I recall seeing some enthusiastic reports of success. Anecdotally, also, eggplant salve has proven a rather miraculous skin disorder treatment.

Here’s a fantasy: a Lennon-Yoko style Peace-in of bonobos who would be observed and employed to ‘train the trainers’ of AI. Imagine. A tribe of bonobo-trained AI entities, incapable of grokking homo sapiens’ murderous ways, put in charge of diplomacy on the world stage. In my fantasy, these ‘bonoboids’ (bononobots?) innovate ways to turn that cursed minute hand on the Doomsday Clock back a few ticks!

By: Rich Biggly

Rich Biggly — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 08:55:48 +0000

Another touchingly reminiscent article, Dr. Suzy. It’s a shame that some people will find any opportunity to take advantage of the trust and goodwill of others, but you will fight on, live on, and prosper in this strange, sometimes frightening, yet beautiful world we and our furry cousins call home. I really believe that.

By: Gideon Grayson

Gideon Grayson — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 10:17:43 +0000

Bonoboville will persevere.

By: Raouf Halaby

Raouf Halaby — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 08:40:22 +0000

I am flabbergasted.

Yes, I know that flabbergasted is a cliche. However, having just read your/today’s CP, very moving column/essay/masterpiece/journal-diary entry, I am left with a range of emotions that include empathy, love, helplessness because I can’t be supportive some 2,000 miles away, and anger at a health system where the bottom line is uber Alles.

Your eloquent and conversational tone, pithy and satirical phrases, voluminous information, your recounting of autobiographical/narrative, and sincerity renders your column as one of the very best I have read – ever. And this comes from a former composition & editorial writing, a trade in which I was involved for 42 years.

Along with the aforementioned, I send my earnest wishes for a recovery. I also send my love to a very special woman who is standing by her man in the face of monumental challenges.

From a Palestinian friend to his dear Jewish friend. Raouf
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By: Missy Wilde

Missy Wilde — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 08:36:34 +0000

Awesome Reporting from the “Belly of the Beast” of the American Medical Industry. Love the sexual healing!

By: Raelina West

Raelina West — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 08:32:52 +0000

This is the “Project 2025” we need – Dr. Suzy’s Prescription for Peace through Pleasure in a Pro-Bonobo America

By: MarsFX

MarsFX — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 07:45:56 +0000

I am hoping Dr. Suzy and Max can muster the resolve to stand with courage against the anti-bonobo consciousness that has been wrought on them. I am confident that the loving message, “Peace through Pleasure” learned from The Bonobo Way will continue to prevail in 2025. Go Bonobos!

By: Martie D. Klien

Martie D. Klien — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 07:37:14 +0000

Brava Dr. Block for this magnificent, engrossing and very bonobo tale of love against all odds – a brave fight for love, life and dignity against America’s murderous medical insurance racket that enriches a few and makes the rest of us sick. And your Free Palestine pin is a very nice touch

By: CC

CC — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 02:27:06 +0000

Well, this is a rambunctious start to the new year!! Let’s make this one count! Hopefully, we are headed to only good health and an abundance of positiveness in 2025. I love these sentiments around the bonobos, they teach us that there is another way if you want it….

By: Persia

Persia — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 23:08:28 +0000

The Bonobos are lucky to have people of influence such as Dr. Suzy and Max! Most people do not even know about Bonobos and their lifestyle. We could all learn from them. The BONOBO WAY!

By: Asia

Asia — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 22:51:42 +0000

Thank you Dr Suzy for sharing your real raw journey. 2024 was a trying year. With great suffering comes great reward! 2025 speaking healing, Legal Wins, and more love for the Bonobos!

By: Harry

Harry — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 22:38:46 +0000

Dr. Suzy and Max are both strong and courageous, if you look at their lives they are no strangers to fighting the good fight and standing up for free speech and sex positivity.

The saying “no good deed goes unpunished” is an ironic and sad cruelty of life and it is a shame that there are forces and people in this world who seek to take advantage of Dr. Suzy and Max’s kindness. But I have no doubt, Dr. Suzy and Max will prevail because love always prevails. And you’d be hard press to find anyone who believes more in Love than they do.

Go Bonobos