Length 01:50:28 Date: April 28, 2018

by Dr. Susan Block

Under a pink moon, Bonoboville celebrates my fabulous assistant Phoenix Dawn’s 28^th birthday, filled with spankings, flogging, Bday cake sploshing and balloon-popping orgasms. Plus we gear up for the merry Masturbation Month of May and consider the thorny question of how to treat society’s Incel mass murder problem using socialized sex work and the Bonobo Way. Then we go back to spanking, sploshing and jilling off.

Row 1: Ana Quintana, Phoenix Dawn. Row 2: Pink Moon, Sun Rae, Jezebel Sweet, Bryan Jameson, Lexi Lore, Dr. Suzy, Mistress Kara, tRUMP, Jack Friday. Row 3: Ikkor the Wolf, Elena Rayn. Photo: Jux lii

.It’s a helluva show!

Pre-Show Pink Moon Selfie

Phoenix Dawn, Birthday Girl

I open the live broadcast surrounded by balloons in the birthday girl’s favorite color which happens to be the hue of the big balloon moon, as well as the pretty vulvas later to be shown in my Womb Room.

Technically, Phoenix’s birthday falls on May 3, but the Saturday night before is April 28^th, and she’s 28, so it seems numerically auspicious.

Phoenix Dawn. Photo: Jux Lii

Phoenix is a very special young lady. Beautiful, smart, super sexy, adventurous, sensitive, very giving and loving, she’s a great on-camera assistant, a caring therapist with the Institute and a precious part of our Bonoboville community.

Balloons & Pink Moons for the Bday Gal. Photo: Selfie

She also loves getting spanked, so “birthday spankings” are the first order of monkey (or bonobo) business. Well, actually, first we discuss hate, death, destruction and how the Bonobo Way might stem the rising tide of “incel” mass murders—but I’ll get to that a little later in the blog, because I’d rather start with the fun stuff.

And we certainly have a lot of fun spanking Phoenix’s sassy birthday butt. Indeed, the impact play began with last Saturday’s DomCon Bound show as Mistress Cyan and Goddess Phoenix flogged, whipped and whacked our girl until her bottom was as pink and purple as this show’s color motif.

This might have discouraged a less hardy derriere, but even still slightly bruised, our Ms. Dawn is ready for more.

Mistress Kara & Jack Friday

Champion erotic wrestler and FemDom Mistress Kara, decked out in a formidable leather corset with straps that displays her ample cleavage, commences Phoenix’s birthday impact play with a good solid Florentine flogging.

Birthday Flogging from Mistress Kara. Photo: Greg Gorman

Ms. Kara will join me for my Bonobo Way FemDoms of the Wild presentation at DomCon LA 2018, wrestling with Phoenix to demonstrate how bonobos turn fighting into lovemaking (which is how Kara’s erotic wrestling matches usually go anyway).

Mistress Kara “gets” The Bonobo Way and will join us for “FemDoms of the Wild” at DomCon LA!

It’s also how I imagine the ancient Greeks and Spartans first conducted their Olympic sporting events.

Ancient Greek Nude Wrestlers.

Though recorded “history” has probably expurgated most of the eroticism, we do know that ancient Greek athletes wrestled in the nude. In Sparta, even the women wrestled, also sans toga.

Giovanni de Min. Spartan women wrestling., fresco, 1835-36. Villa Patt, Sedico, Italy.

Ms. Kara’s poly partner, classically handsome military vet and kinkster,  Jack Friday, looks a little menacing in a leather butcher’s apron reminiscent of Sweeney Todd, despite (or maybe because of) his killer smile. He insists though, that he’s just been baking decadently delicious, bacon and brown sugar strudel cookies for the birthday girl.

After the show, I learn that Kara and Jack have been together for 14 years! They’re catching up to me and Capt’n Max.

Jack Friday “wins” the Bday Gal’s Bra on his Head. Photo: Greg Gorman

Lexi Lore & Bryan Jameson

Then sexy Lexi Lore gives Phoenix a few swats with her “SLUT” paddle. We met the 19-year-old Erotique Entertainment contract star with our old friend, MIT-educated Erotique CEO and porn star, Eric John, on Erotique Politiques, when she stole our hearts with her big soulful eyes, slim limber limbs, smile-full-of-braces, pierced nips, pretty pink puss and mischievous yet amiable style. Then she wowed us again on our 26^th Wedding Anniversary.

Lexi really bonded with our birthday girl, so we’re not surprised she’s here to celebrate, along with her adorable techie/performer BF and fellow vegan Virginian, Bryan Jameson.  Showing his sweetly sadistic streak, Bryan takes the SLUT paddle, and Phoenix’s 28 birthday spanks begin in earnest—though we keep losing count, so he really gives her about 80 before passing the baton.

Bryan Jameson serves (at least) 29 SLUT paddle whacks to our Bday Gal. Photo: Jux Lii

Mistress Kara keeps the Bday impact play going with a few more paddle whacks and a traditional over-the-knee (OTK) hand spanking. 

If age were whacks, Phoenix will be 280 years old by the time we’re done.

Jezebel Sweet & Sun Rae

On the other side of the Womb Room is sultry singer/songwriter, Jezebel Sweet, in cool diaphanous peach to complement our porno-hot pink. She brings along her “wifey,” cute glitter-lipped Sun Rae, who reads Tarot cards and is outfitted like a Blackrock Burner.

“Wifey” Love: Jezebel Sweet & Sun Rae. Photo: Jux Lii

Speaking of Burning Man—which sprouted from the Bay Area’s old Cacaphony Society and my own dearly departed Golden Gate Bridge-climbing Suicide Club—we say farewell to fellow hat lover and Burning Man Founder Larry Harvey who has gone to that great Blackrock Desert in the Sky.

Jezebel’s birthday gift to Phoenix is a seductive song, originally inspired by Wifey Sun, called “Life’s a Trip”

Grab the Altoids I don’t know when or if I’m coming back
Meditate like Jackie-Ohm with my female Captain Jack
Follow all the arrows and the rabbits, and the signs
No need to check the clock, my love, there’s no such thing as time
Let’s misbehave, let’s put some rainbows in our brains
Every once in a blue moon it just seems like the thing to do
Oliver Twist your wrist with that “Please miss, can I have some more?”
Lay out all the traffic cones and walk until we’re sore
She’s painting universes and I’m writing pretty songs
Singing “Fuck you, we’re beautiful” and we’re not wrong
No need for decisions now it’s done
You put the paper in your mouth, you’re gone
Well life’s a spiral, baby
Everything comes back around
And life’s a trip, my darling
We’re about to hit the ground
She’s my ray of fucking sunshine
Lights the days up when it rains
Bubble baths and acid math and bottles of champagne
We deal in good vibrations
We’re a two girl crystal nation
Letting Lucy tag along so we can all ménage à trois
Flawless, lawless rebel kind of girls
Wedding veils and ginger ale and mermaid ocean pearls
And we could wander streets all day in absolute bliss
But we’ll never have to walk too far looking like this
We’ll keep on getting better
And we’ll hide our scars with glitter
Because everything’s a canvas in our world
And life is kind of…well you, know
We fell down the rabbit hole and found a little something of our own

Jezebel Sweet sings “Life’s a Trip” live from Bonoboville on DrSuzy.Tv. Photo: Jux Lii

We’re not sure how much of Life’s a Trip is about bonoboësque girl-girl friendship and how much is about dropping acid while doing ‘shrooms, but we love it.

Good Vibrations for Masturbation

Jezebel’s lyric, “We deal in Good Vibrations,” foreshadows another theme of this show: gearing up for Masturbation Month with vibrators of all kinds.

For her birthday, I give Phoenix a little pink Fukuoku (pronounced “fuck you”?) Power Pack which, when worn on the hand like a wired glove, gives three of the wearer’s fingertips bionic powers, enabling her to vibrate as she fingers herself or her partner.

Lexi gets Titty-Fukuoku’ed. Photo: Naz

Needless to say, it’s a big hit—and creates quite a buzz—among our guests!

Ms. Kara gets Fukuoku’ed by Phoenix “Sex Cyborg” Photo: Naz

“She’s like a sex-cyborg, I love it.” Kara says through moans as Phoenix continues touching her.

Birthday Communion with Elena Rayn

For her Bonoboville Communion Altar Girl, our Birthday Babe chooses Elena Rayne, another great singer/songwriter who stripteases as she sings.

Even before she starts shedding her clothes, Elena impresses the Womb Room with the crisscross tan lines up and down her legs. Actually, they’re more like burn lines from falling asleep in the sun while wearing her crisscross leg laces. Stingy but sexy!

Waterboarding, Bonobo Style. Photo: Naz

Phoenix licks up her Communion with relish and leans back for her Waterboarding, Bonobo-Style with Agwa de Bolivia Herbal Coca Leaf Liqueur. In between licks and swallows, she masturbates her pink-pantied pink pussy with her new pink vibrator under the pink moon, surrounded by pink balloons.

Happy Birthday Phoenix! Photo: Naz

As Janelle Monáe sings, “It’s cool if you love blue, but we got the Pynk.”

Masturbation Tales, Tips & Try-Outs

After the break, we get psyched for the merry Masturbation Month of May with true tales of first time masturbation. Listen to the broadcast to learn about everybody’s first times.

Bryan and Lexi talk about the first times they masturbated. Photo: Greg Gorman

Older folks like me generally started touching ourselves “down there” having no idea what we were doing except that it felt good and was vaguely naughty. Only through trial and error could we reach orgasm, especially if “we” were women. So, it’s great to hear that younger people like Lexi and Bryan, who grew up in the era of free information via the Internet, tend to start masturbating with some knowledge about genital anatomy and the awareness that masturbation is natural, healthy and nothing of which to be ashamed.

It’s also exciting to hear that my old public access shows, Real Sex on HBO, as well as independent internet programming, has helped spur a new generation of sex education and masturbation-positive young men and women. Of course, that could all change when Net Neutrality is taken from us. Service providers and social media, fearing SESTA/FOSTA action, are already increasing their restrictions on posts about sex, including sex education. Well, at least the current generation is masturbation-aware. Let’s hope they won’t be the last.

Then Lexi strips off her tiny denim bootie shorts and body-suit top (that didn’t even cover her tits anyway), and we all gasp at her casual classic beauty.

Lexi settles in for Self-Pleasure. Photo: Naz

She settles in among my pillows, leaning up against our gagged tRUMP doll, with Bryan to her right and me to her left. Thus situated for maximum comfort and exposure, she spreads her limber legs and begins ushering in the month of May with her favorite big purple vibrator, plus a new purple glass dong provided by Bryan (an M Month gift perhaps?).

“Masturbation is natural” is one of the messages of Masturbation Month, having been so declared by my mentor Dr. Betty Dodson along with Good Vibrations, over 20 years ago, in honor of former U.S. Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders who, in answer to a question at the end of a United Nations speech, was bold and wise enough to suggest that public school sex education programs teach that masturbation is a safe sex option and a natural, normal part of human sexuality. Instead of being applauded, she was fired by none other than sax-tootin,’ I-did-not-have-sex-with-that-woman President Bill Clinton. Oh Bill, if only you’d listened to Dr. Elders and just masturbated instead of spilling your presidential seed all over that blue dress… Hillary might be President! See, this is why everyone—even Presidents—needs Masturbation Education. And this is why we need Masturbation Month.

Keeping tRUMP gagged with his own TP. Photo: Jux Lii

Some Presidents need to masturbate more than others. Since Melania never sleeps in the White House, let alone with Agent Orange, one would hope the Donald would jack off that micro-penis occasionally instead of staying up all night tweeting, rallying the basest of his base (as he’s doing in Michigan during this show), watching Fox News-Porn, picking imaginary dandruff off the French President’s shoulder (instead of joining him in the Paris Climate Agreement), and shooting off missiles into various countries. Shoot the missile between your legs! Masturbate! We keep him gagged with a wad Trump Toilet Paper until he does.

Just in case you’re wondering if you’re “the only one,” everybody masturbates, at least sometimes. If you don’t, you should, and here are 8 Great Reasons Why.

Balloongasms

As my guests engage in various levels of masturbation, Elena delivers “Part of Me,” stripping while she sings.

Elena strips as she sings “Part of Me” while Lexi masturbates. Photo: Naz

You can’t rip up my insides
I’ll swallow them whole
I’m slipping from the hand glide
Sucked into your black hole
The ripples in the water
The river’s full of tires
Look down from the airplane
You can see the lines

I’ve always had a feeling
I always knew that we were meant to be
Created you inside my mind
You’ve always been a part of me

You lift me up so I can see
You clear the smoke so I can breathe
You bend your knees so I can reach
You’ve always been a part of me

As Elena sings in her birthday suit, Lexi continues to masturbate, Phoenix vibrates and the whole Womb Room resonates with musically orgasmic sensations.

A silly idea pops into my head, and pink balloons—like pink moons—start flying around the room, like weightless vollyballs, bouncing between us in rhythm to Elena’s song.

Balloons like Moons fly through the sky as Elena sings. Photo: Naz

As a spontaneous grand finale, Elena sits on one of the balloons, putting on the pressure until it pops—loudly.

Balloongasm!

Balloongasm! Photo: Greg Gorman

Then the Bday Girl does the same. Maybe it’s all those good vibrations, but popping a balloon between your legs feels very climactic.

Meanwhile, Lexi keeps on masturbating “the regular way” with her trusty toys, her thighs spread wide, as Bryan congenially “helps out.” She even has a real orgasm; at least she says she does. She’s not loud about it, but maybe that’s just because we don’t have the microphone in front of her.

Lexi Lore, Poster Girl for Self-Pleasure. Photo: Greg Gorman

No doubt, self-pleasure-loving Lexi Lore is the perfect poster girl for Masturbation Month 2018.

Birthday Cake Splosh

Now it’s cake time, with Ikkor the Wolf as designated presenter. Phoenix removes his Bonoboville T, showing off his muscular torso.

Like the “blow pro” she is, this Birthday Girl blows out her candles teasingly and slowly, but fully.

Phoenix Blows… beautifully. Photo: Naz

I make the executive decision to cut a few “regular” pieces of cake for the crew and guests before we start sploshing.

Bonoboville Quartet: Ikkor, Phoenix, Dr. Pink & Cami. Photo: Jux Lii

Cami Rosebud gets the first slice since she had noticed that, exciting as Daniele Watts’ Splosh-Out on Jux Lii’s cake last Saturday was, nobody got to eat any of it.

We also ruined the rug. But please don’t grieve; it was an old rug and had served its time, surviving many sploshes, sperm wars and squirts of various body fluids and lubricants.

Pink Birthday Boob Squeeze. Photo: Jux Lii

So, this time, we roll up the new rug.

Thus prepared, we splosh away, icing Phoenix’s nipples and butt with creamy frostings of different colors, though all the same flavor: sugar rush.

Butt Lick. Photo: Jux Lii

Multiple guests lick and suck the sweet cream from the Birthday Gal’s beautiful body parts.

It’s a Birthday Cake Oral Orgy!

But before we can eat our fill, it’s over.

At least the live broadcast is over, but the party goes on into the wee hours.

After the party, Capt’n Max and I kick-off Masturbation Month in private, though we’re not strict in our observance, and before long masturbation turns to copulation, and then whaddyaknow but these two old folks, married almost as long as Phoenix has been alive, give each other balloongasms (not literally, but it feels like a big pop!) that send us sailing over the pink moon… not quite to where old Burning Man Larry Harvey is, but pretty far.

Happy Birthday Phoenix! Thanks for sharing your love with us, with Bonoboville and beyond.

With the Captain and the Birthday Girl. Photo: Selfie

No Incels in Bonoboville

Now for the serious stuff. I did say I was going to write more about our discussion of that recent “incel” mass murder, didn’t I?

Talking about Incel Treatment, the Bonobo Way. Photo: Greg Gorman

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Well, since you’ve read this far…Come with me down a rabbit hole of hate. It’s a hellish, harrowing, blood-stained journey, but it just might lead to a bonoboësque way of life that is peaceful, egalitarian and sexy.

Last Monday, a single white 25-year-old male drove a van down a busy street in Toronto, veering into a crowd of people, killing 10 and injuring at least 15 more.

At first, no one could fathom the motive. Then the lightning swift clarivoyance of the Internet revealed that minutes before he committed mass murder, “shy techie” Alek Minassian had posted on Facebook:

“Private (Recruit) Minassian Infantry 00010, wishing to speak to Sgt 4chan please. C23249161. The Incel Rebellion has already begun! We will overthrow all the Chads and Stacys! All hail the Supreme Gentleman Elliot Rodger!”

Hunger Games, Killing Fields

Scanning the stilted message, I recognized the name Elliot Rodger, having written a bit about the young, self-promotion-savvy, misogynistic mass murderer shortly after his bloody so-called “day of retribution” on the halcyon streets of Santa Barbara almost four years ago in “Hunger Games, Killing Fields.”

“…another lonely child of Tinseltown… the eldest son of award-winning British-American filmmaker, Peter Rodger, best-known for his work as assistant director of The Hunger Games… The younger Rodger’s internationally broadcast spectacle includes a series of videos, writings and, of course, murders, that reveal him to have been a deeply disturbed, narcissistic, misogynistic, racist, sexually frustrated, creepily-metrosexual, utterly alienated, self-confessed 22-year-old virgin …

‘It’s obviously the work of a madman,’ said Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown…

Of course, killing seven people, including yourself, would seem to be the quintessential definition of ‘madness’… And yet, in his chilling, now viral ‘Retribution’ video, he does not act like a wild-eyed, drooling ‘madman,’ but more like a well-spoken actor delivering his soliloquy, detailing his self-obsessed misery as if to future journalists, screenwriters and bloggers whom he imagines will write his story, pouting, preening and adjusting his designer sunglasses as he announces he will soon ‘take great pleasure in slaughtering all of you.’

His pronouncements might seem ridiculous, and certainly pathetic, if they weren’t followed by a real-life rampage that took the lives of six innocent people and wounded several others: ‘Tomorrow is the day of retribution, the day in which I will have my revenge… You girls have never been attracted to me. I don’t know why you girls aren’t attracted to me, but I will punish you all for it.’

The terrible truth is that he really did ‘punish (us) all’ by doing something so heinous he got his smug little mug in front of almost as many eyeballs as his dad got with The Hunger Games, maybe more.”

Since I wrote those words in 2014, as mass murders have multiplied, I haven’t thought much more about Rodger. Unfortunately, others have.  A mushrooming movement of “incels” have not only been thinking about this obnoxious young killer with a small penis complex, poring over his videos and manifestos over these four years, they have been avidly worshiping him as a saint or “supreme gentleman” (Rodger’s term for himself as in “why do hot girls always go for big oafs, instead of me, the supreme gentleman?”). To be sure, much of the worship is tinged with deadpan irony. But some, like Minassian, are taking Rodger’s Incel Insurrection to the streets.

The Agony of Involuntary Celibacy

2014 was when I learned that eerie new word “incels”… “involuntary celibates” whom I identified as

“…reluctant virgins (though some may have had sex a few times)… Many of them are profoundly angry with the women inside and outside their lives who haven’t ‘given them a chance,’ from those goddess-like ‘popular girls’ to their eroticized mothers and step-mothers.”

Four years post-Rodger, though most incels remain nonviolent or, at least passive, more and more are militant and a few are willing to take up arms, or drive a van into a crowd of pedestrians, for the “cause,” or just because they feel sorry for themselves. Indeed, they are making their mark as a terrorizing, if not technically “terrorist” group. I call them “frustratos,” especially when their raging and whining about women reaches operatic levels, as it certainly is right about now.

Rodger’s father Peter was appalled to hear that these unsettling incels worship his dead son like a god, and that this latest mass murder was committed in his name. Many share the elder Rodger’s disdain and confusion over such hateful misogynist males. Why are these young men of relative “privilege” (even if they live in their mom’s basement, at least they have moms with basements) lashing out like this—at women and just about anyone—and can we as a society ever reverse this terrorizing trend?

Rodger and Minassian may have been “socially awkward,” but they’ve got plenty of company. Whether or not they know the term, in a way, most modern mass murderers are “incels,” or at least, have serious problems with women. The Marjorie Stoneman High School shooter, the guy who shot up his ex-wife’s mother’s church in Texas, the Orlando nightclub shooter, the Waffle House killer and many more are angry, lonely, often racist young men, all with severe sexual problems. Either they can’t get women, or they beat the ones they get.

Panty Bomber Frustratos

We can say these mass murderers are awful, ignorant, selfish, misogynistic, sick with “toxic masculinity” and unworthy of life, let alone sex, and we wouldn’t be wrong.

But our society, our much-vaunted modern human civilization, has created and propagated these murderous, lonely, angry and horny young men swimming like poisonous sperm in our pond. Here in America, they’re mostly white, but all races, religions and creeds are spawning them these days. Incel or ISIS, mass murderers or suicide bombers (remember the would-be Panty Bomber?), tend to be sexual frustratos, as Osama bin Laden’s semi-secret “Masturbation Fatwa” attests.

If we take their guns away (and we certainly should try to do that), they’ll still have knives and rental vans. They could benefit from a full course of sex therapy, and some of them actually do. Again, looking back to 2014:

“As a sex therapist, I can’t help but wonder, if Elliot Rodger had been my client, could I have helped him? Could I have stopped him? That’s one reason he’s gotten under my skin, because his grievances remind me of some of my clients’ complaints. The Rodger family lawyer says Elliot was seeing ‘multiple therapists,’ but were any of them specifically addressing his sexual problems? Of course, Rodger was an extremely tough case, but sex therapy has helped countless sexual frustratos grapple with their perceived inadequacies, their overblown sense of entitlement and their disturbingly high levels of misogyny.”

But sex therapy and other kinds of sex work are expensive, socially denigrated and often illegal. So much is privatized, corporatized, stigmatized or criminalized these days. Therefore, many of these young frustratos look for guidance from extremist religion, 4chan or their AR-15.

We can denigrate and humiliate the incels of our world for hating hot women (“Stacys” in Incel-speak), sexy guys (“Chads”) and pretty much everyone who isn’t incel (“normies”). We can call them selfish, stupid, boorish, rude, ridiculous, grossly entitled, poorly endowed and just plain horrible and, again, we wouldn’t be wrong.

And with that rather popular approach, we can look forward to more mass murderers penetrating our news cycles with gunfire and ramming their monster trucks into our lives.

No Incels in Bonoboville

We can also consider alternative approaches. One is the Bonobo Way. Bonobos, our closest living great ape relatives, show us how we humans might have been twenty-or-so thousand years ago, before we became so so-called “civilized,” turning land into somebody’s “private property” and sex into a very limited commodity.

Bonobos are the only great apes that have never been seen killing each other in the wild or captivity. They also have a lot of sex.  There are no Incels in Bonoboville.

But this is no Patriarchal Paradise. It’s actually rather matriarchal, with a heavy dose of bisexuality (helping to ensure that everybody “gets some,” one way or another) and female empowerment (that could teach the #MeToo movement a thing or two), and not just among young, fertile females. Milfs rule Bonoboville.

Why do the boys put up with this “femocracy” of the wild? They don’t have AR-15s, but they do have fangs and greater upper body strength. Most single adult male bonobos could easily beat up or kill most single adult females.

There are many reasons why bonobo boys “let” the ladies run the show, but two in particular: 1) The females stick together, and 2) the males get laid. Turns out that good, female-empowered (not female-enslaved) sex does a lot to calm male rage and promote male well-being among great apes like us.

Back to Humanville where, despite using SEXXX to sell everything from toothpaste to cars to guns, we don’t provide for or even help our fellow humans handle their most basic sexual needs. True, we don’t provide for folks’ even more basic need for food (and we should), but at least, we don’t say that hungry people are bad, nor do we criminalize grocery shopping. We do say that horny people are bad, and we criminalize the very solutions that could help.

Most governments around the world hinder our access to good consensual adult sex, including right here at home. The Trumpus might feel comfortable paying women for sex, as Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal can attest, but he also happily signed SESTA/FOSTA, the awful, bipartisan law that purports to stop “sex trafficking” of minors, but really doesn’t help in that worthy pursuit at all. Rather it’s a “racket” that satisfies the religious right and sanctimonious left, while greatly endangering consensual adult sex workers and curtailing free speech on the Internet for all of us.

Oh, that Internet! Many of us thought it would make things better, and at first, it seemed to, but now it looks like the World Wide Web pushes humanity in directions as destructive of life on Earth as most human technological “progress” has ultimately been (with a few significant exceptions, like vaccines and vibrators).

Of course, the incels are utterly, disgustingly wrong when they say that women “owe” men sex. But we as a society do owe our fellow humans the right to engage in consensual adult sexual expression in whatever ways we can.

Peace through Pleasure, Not War for Profit

Back to our kissing cousins, the bonobos. If we really want a more peaceful society like so many say we do, we need to make like bonobos, not baboons. The incel insurrection, noxious and toxic as it is, can only be quelled with love.

That doesn’t mean giving a “mercy fuck” to your neighborhood dweeb (which is generally not a great idea, unless you’re really in the mood). It means honoring the Bonobo Way of peace through pleasure, and not the American way of war for profit.

No wonder so many young men—and some young women—believe with all their hearts that violence is the solution to their problems when they see so many old men (and more and more old women) sending missiles, drones and assassination teams into foreign lands, when they see blockbuster movies glorifying mass murder for a specious “good cause,” when they see military officers honored for killing and torture, when they see so-called defense budgets expanded, and when they see American police shooting first and asking questions later, if at all.

Speaking of police brutality, the Minassian incident shows us clearly how a decent police officer can arrest a suspect without killing or even harming him or anyone else. I would say that this cop knows the Bonobo Way, but I think that the fact that both the suspect and the cop happened to be white may have had something to do with it. As Azeesah Kanji points out, Toronto’s finest “…is the same police force that has repeatedly brutalized people of colour, particularly those struggling with mental illness, including Sudanese refugee Andrew Loku, who was shot dead while holding a hammer in 2015; Syrian immigrant teenager Sammy Yatim, who was barraged with bullets for brandishing a pocket knife in 2013; and Michael Eligon, who was gunned down while carrying two pairs of scissors and wearing nothing but a hospital gown in 2012.”

Honoring Sex Work

We also need to honor sex and sex work. Because clearly—whether it’s a good masseuse, a friendly hooker, a strict dominatrix, a serious sex therapist (not an antidepressant-pushing psychiatrist), a sapiosexual phone sex operator, a surrogate mom or a fucking nurse (literally or figuratively)—these incels need sex work.

Since sex workers must be paid, just like any workers, and since most incels are broke (wealthy, designer-shaded Elliot Rodger was an exception to the rule, which is perhaps, one of the reasons for his sainthood in our Mammon-worshiping land), we as a caring society—that is, our government—should pay these sex workers. Yes, sex work should be socialized and subsidized, for the good of all.

What, you say, we can’t afford it? If we have funding to increase the military budget every year until it blows us to kingdom come, we have funding for a few blow-jobs to let our people cum.

Oddly enough, in Canada, it’s legal to sell sexual services, but not to buy them, which makes the legality of sex work almost useless, but hey, they’re half-way there. In America, we’re going in the opposite direction with SESTA/FOSTA. So we can expect more sex worker murders, and more incel murderers… unless we make a change in the direction of peace through pleasure, female empowerment, male well-being and sharing resources. Call it what you want, but since the bonobos embody it, I call it the Bonobo Way.

Speaking of the bonoboësque practice of sharing resources, we also need to acknowledge that our “system” of sex distribution is almost as unfair as our system of wealth distribution. The crumbling old patriarchal structure often forced women at all levels of society into marriages with men they loathed, in part so that most men would have access to at least one sex partner. That evil system of female slavery is collapsing, and good riddance. Women have a right to choose their partners for sex, love and life, and the bonobos show us just how natural female sexual choice is. But what about the men who, for whatever reason, don’t get chosen? Are they supposed to just go without sex and erotic love? Why shouldn’t these guys be able to legally engage consensual adult sex workers?

Though it’s a great first step, legalizing sex work is only part of the solution. We also need to destigmatize it, so incels and others aren’t considered “losers” because they see sex workers. This would also help the #MeToo movement. If paying a sex worker is considered a positive healthy way to spend a portion of your paycheck, like going out to eat in a nice restaurant, then maybe some of these executive frustratos won’t harass their assistants so much.

Pansexual & Proud

Then again, there are the incels-in-the-closet I mentioned in the year of Rodger’s rampage:

“…some men have problems with women because they’re actually more attracted to men… Some rage at females because they really wish they could be women, but they’re profoundly afraid to admit this ‘sin’ against masculinity, even to themselves. I wonder if Rodger might have felt such feelings, since he ‘never even kissed a girl,’ and reports so far indicate that he didn’t try to ask out any of the women he claims to have lusted after.”

Who knows if Rodger was “really” gay, bi or trans, but I’m willing to bet that many incels are. Thanks to human society’s age-old disapproval of various forms of nonreproductive sexuality, these uber-repressed dudes feel deeply ashamed of and utterly hopeless about their own sexual feelings. That doesn’t excuse them for lashing out at “Stacys,” “Chads” and “Normies” in any way, let alone committing crimes. But when we as a society ignore the causes, we can expect to reap the results.

As for our bonobo cousins (who are highly endangered, thanks mostly to human bushmeat hunting, and urgently need our help), they’re all bisexual. Or you could say, “pansexual” (like Janelle Monáe), a more fitting term as their Latin name is Pan paniscus, creatures of Pan, that great horned and horny Greek god of the wild, a true deity “of the people” and nature, eventually transformed by the Church into Satan.

Being pansexual certainly reduces the incel population. In crude, reductive but practical terms, you might say this means that when a few horny bonobo boys go out cruisin’ and none of the gals are interested, they can just have sex with each other.

Merry Masturbation Month, Incels!

Straight, gay, cis or trans, in or out of the proverbial “closet,” another part of the solution to society’s incel mass murder problem happens to be something more and more of us are celebrating in May: Masturbation Month.

Self-pleasure, at the moment, is not illegal. Though if Senator Ted Cruz had his way, it would be. In a 2008 brief defending a Texas law criminalizing the sale of dildos, Cruz argued, “There is no substantive-due-process right to stimulate one’s genitals for non-medical purposes unrelated to procreation or outside of an interpersonal relationship.” Fortunately, the Court of Appeals threw out this puritanical and just plain silly argument, so Texans can’t be busted for wanking in the privacy of their own homes, even for “non-medical purposes.” 

Though if American cops burst into your bedroom and you happen to be holding a vibrator, they might mistake it for a gun and shoot you.

Furthermore, masturbation is still highly stigmatized, sometimes even more than sex work. Many men feel they are unmanly when they “need” to jack off. As a sex therapist, I hear a lot about male masturbatory shame. The right-wingers believe they are moral “sinners” bound to burn in hell for it, while the lefties worry that they are “sex addicts” undeserving of love unless they fork over $25 grand to some shady “sex addiction clinic.” With such capitalist extortions and negative notions about the simple, harmless joy of self-pleasure, is it any wonder that so many incels get—and go—”mad”?

I try to encourage the incels I encounter to be proud and happy, or at least unashamed, to jack off when they want to. Shoot the gun between your legs! It won’t win you a Nobel, but then, a lot of Nobel winners are war criminals.

So, make love to someone you love tonight, even—or, this month, especially—if that someone is you. It’s the Bonobo Way.

Free the Nips! Photo: Jux Lii

Merry Masturbation Month!

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Celebrating the M Month under the Pink Moon. Photo: Selfie

© May 1,  2018. 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 310-568-0066.