“Shame-free erotic liberation.”
“I adore this inspired and entertaining guide to shame-free erotic liberation. It is so needed, so well-written and so completely unique. Brava Dr. Suzy!”
—Barbara Carrellas, author of Urban Tantra
“I love every page of The Bonobo Way. The book is a real page turner and turn on…mandatory reading for everyone.”
“I love every page of The Bonobo Way. The book is a real page turner and turn on… vivid descriptions of bonobo sex and peaceful living through mutual sexual gratification should be mandatory reading for everyone struggling to maintain joy in their lives…”
--Christian Bruyère, TV producer, Champions of the Wild
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New Vice TV Documentary, “Phone Sex Therapy” featuring Dr. Susan Block generates Great Love & Virulent Hate
Dr. Susan Marilyn Block, a.k.a. “Dr. Suzy”—her remarkable life, pro-bonobo world and “controversial” sex therapy system, clients and techniques—is the subject of the new Vice TV documentary, “Dr. Suzy’s Controversial Phone Sex Therapy.” The piece premiered in August, 2023, shot past 100,000 views within its first week and is edging towards 200,000.
“The practice of sex therapy is changing,” says Dr. Susan Block about her groundbreaking approach. “30 years ago, when I was just starting to conduct therapy sessions over the phone, no one else was doing it, and some of my colleagues were appalled. Gradually, they realized it’s safer, more convenient, intimate, private, better for the environment and available to anyone with a phone worldwide, and started doing it themselves. Nowadays, tele-therapy or phone therapy and phone sex therapy are as common as in-person sessions. However, my unique brand of therapy allows clients to talk about ANYTHING. We are not the ‘thought police,’ and we believe in the value of talking about what’s on your mind with someone who can help you handle it. Most find this unconventional approach liberating and effective, but some—like Vice—see it as ‘controversial’.”
With unfettered access, Vice TV ventured deep inside the Dr. Susan Block Institute for the Erotic Arts & Sciences and Dr. Suzy’s Speakeasy in Bonoboville. Filmmakers documented two days in the life of Dr. Suzy, her husband Max and their merry band of bonoboësque collaborators and volunteers. Vice even takes viewers into the lives and homes of real phone sex therapy clients of the Institute who discuss how phone sex therapy has helped them.
Dr. Suzy’s playful, mindful techniques come to life in the invisible, intimate and often very healing realms of the telephone, as well as in the extended “capitalist socialist” community she calls “Bonoboville,” which exists in virtual reality as well as regular reality.
Part of the “Vice Guide to Sex” series, the episode climaxes with a bacchanalian “Bonoboville Reunion” of artists, kinksters, actors, comedians, political activists, friends and lovers in the “Womb Room” sanctuary of the “Irreverend” Dr. Susan Block’s very special “Church” of the Bonobo Way in the “Eco Village” of Bonoboville centered around her philosophy of peace through pleasure, female empowerment, male well-being, ecosexuality, friendliness, inclusivity and sharing resources.
Though the Vice piece touches upon Block’s philosophy, it focuses on the “controversies” as well as the erotic action, packing into the 17-and-a-half-minute piece much nude cavorting, while just managing to stay within YouTube’s vague but unforgiving “community guidelines.”
Taboo body parts are revealed but concealed by a whitish film. “If you squint, it looks like the editors must have ejaculated all over everyone’s nipples and genitals, and some butt crack, depending on the angle,” quips Block. “It’s funny because the Vice cameramen really focused on the nudity in Bonoboville, almost like they were trying to shoot porn, only to hand the footage over to editors who then censored it in this eerie, dehumanizing but still provocative way. It’s digital ejaculation censorship. They do seem to love that white stuff. It’s all over a painting of Marilyn Monroe, her breasts and even her face.”
Was it worth it?
“It’s a great honor and privilege to be the focus of a Vice TV documentary, reaching their huge viewership of millions,” says Block. “Their spin, however, is pretty salacious, suspicious and a little sanctimonious. After all, they call themselves ‘Vice,” and present my work as a kind of ‘vice.’ They’re more sex-positive than most major media, but with a dash of disapproval. And it’s not just the sex. Much of our art is censored, as is our politics. They also keep changing the title, making it sleazier with each alteration. I’ve complained to the producer, but he says there’s nothing I can do, as all the Vice marketing team is looking for are ‘views’… and not getting sued.”
Besides garnering over 180,000 views, the new Vice documentary has inspired hundreds of passionate comments, ranging from great praise, support, tributes and testimonials to thundering rage, outrage, disgust, condemnation, denigration, slut-shaming, elder abuse, misogyny, thought-policing, prayer-reciting and even violent threats.
The ongoing, name-calling debate between lovers and haters of Dr. Suzy’s “controversial” phone sex therapy, kink-positive Bonoboville community and Bonobo Way philosophy is a sign of the times, elucidating a views-driven cultural divide in America and around the world that questions the very nature of sexual health and mental well-being.
Bonoboville Reunion guests include Daniele Watts (aka DaLove), Chef Belive, Amor Hilton, Sally Mullins, Man-Pet, Shannon Coronado, Mistress Mina Nietsche de Sade, Nova, Kacy T-Girl, Onyx Muse, Rhiannon Aarons, Coralyn Jewel, Erikka Rijks, Ikkor the Wolf, Luzer Twersky, Abby Martin, Mike Prysner, Stan Kent, Cyn Yen, and John Barrymore.
Other segments show flashbacks of Dr. Suzy’s shows with Too $hort, Dr. Christopher Ryan, Nancy Friday and Dave Bautista.
Susan M Block, Ph.D., aka “Dr. Suzy,” is an internationally renowned sexologist best-known for her groundbreaking HBO specials. She has hosted The Dr. Susan Block Show for almost 35 years, and is the best-selling author of The Bonobo Way: The Evolution of Peace through Pleasure. A magna cum laude Yale graduate, Counterpunch columnist, DomCon and AASECT lecturer, and champion of sex education, bonobo conservation and freedom of speech, recently featured in Vice TV’s Sex Before the Internet, interviewed on Abby Martin’s Dosed and nominated for the “Most Popular Sex Educator” Urban X Award, Dr. Block hosts F.D.R. Radio every Saturday night with her husband of 31 years, publisher and producer Maximillian Lobkowicz di Filangieri. She’s also been featured on NPR, Oprah, Health, The Doctors, and many others. But she’ll never quit her “day job” as director and chief therapist with the Dr. Susan Block Institute, helping couples, singles and groups to explore, enjoy, take responsibility for and live their best sexual lives.
“I just hope that, despite—or because of—its flaws, this Vice piece inspires some viewers to check out our own shows and books and join us in Bonoboville, as well as encouraging people who need help to call the Institute for private therapy whenever they need to talk.”
For information or to arrange an interview with Dr. Susan Block, email drsusanblock@gmail.com or call (626) 461-5950.
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Urban X Awards nominates Dr. Susan Block for “Most Popular Sex Educator” 2023
The Urban X Awards has nominated renowned sexologist Dr. Susan Block, a.k.a. “Dr. Suzy,” for its “Most Popular Sex Educator” award. Originally called the Urban Spice Awards, established in 2008, the Urban X Awards recognize achievements by performers and others in adult media, with a focus on Black, Latin and Asian achievers. The winners are voted for by fans. Besides Dr. Susan Block, other nominees for the “Sex Educator” 2023 award include Tyomi Morgan, ACS, Jetsetting Jasmine, Sinnamon Love, Pegstress (Peggin tha Stallion), Madame Carmen, Jessica Drake and Ericka Hart.
“Education is power, and sex education is sexual power,” says Dr. Suzy. “So I’m thrilled to be among such illustrious fellow sex educator nominees. In this erotophobic era of sex education suppression, banning books, anti-sex social media censorship, repression of sexual expression, defunding the Kinsey Institute, firing sex educators and rendering The Handmaid’s Tale all too real, it’s great to be honored for our work… and play. Thank you, Urban X Awards, for your courage and great taste.”
Susan M Block, Ph.D., aka “Dr. Suzy,” is an internationally acclaimed sexologist best-known for her groundbreaking HBO specials. She is currently featured in the new Vice TV documentary, “Dr. Suzy’s Controversial Phone Sex Therapy.” She has hosted The Dr. Susan Block Show for almost 35 years, and is the best-selling author of The Bonobo Way: The Evolution of Peace through Pleasure. A magna cum laude Yale graduate, Counterpunch columnist, DomCon and AASECT lecturer, and champion of sex education, bonobo conservation and freedom of speech, recently featured in Vice TV’s Sex Before the Internet and Abby Martin’s Dosed. Dr. Block hosts F.D.R. Radio every Saturday night with her husband of 31 years, publisher and producer Maximillian Lobkowicz di Filangieri. She’s also been featured on NPR, Oprah, Health, The Doctors, and many other media outlets. But she’ll never quit her “day job” as director and chief therapist with the Dr. Susan Block Institute, helping couples, singles and groups to explore, enjoy, take responsibility for and live their best sexual lives.
The Urban X Awards will be held on Sunday, August 20, 2023 at the Globe Theater in Downtown Los Angeles. Red carpet will be at 6 – 7:30 PM and the Awards Show will be from 8:00 – 11:00 PM.
For information or to arrange an interview with Dr. Susan Block, email drsusanblock@gmail.com or call (626) 461-5950.
VICE TV’S Sex Before the Internet features DR. SUSAN BLOCK in “SEX on TV” (ep. 5) about HBO’s REAL SEX
World renowned sexologist, best-selling author of The Bonobo Way, and host of the Dr. Susan Block Show, Dr. Susan Block, a.k.a. Dr. Suzy, recently appeared on episode 5 of VICE TV’s Sex Before the Internet series, produced by former ABC News President James Goldstone. In the episode titled “Sex on TV,” which first aired on Feb. 7, 2023, Dr. Suzy discusses both her experiences and the impact of HBO’s groundbreaking cult favorite reality show, Real Sex.
“HBO was the place to go for adult entertainment that was as smart as it was sexy in those spicy, sex-exploratory years surrounding the turn of the 21st century,” explains Dr. Suzy. “In many ways, HBO’s Real Sex was unprecedented in television history and unsurpassed ever since. It also happened to be open-minded, informative, educational, empathetic, relatively nonjudgmental, funny and a lot of fun.”
The feeling was mutual. HBO called Dr. Suzy “radio’s sexiest, funniest, most outrageous sex therapist… if conversation is a sex act, then this Yale graduate has a very talented tongue.”
Vice’s “Sex on TV” opens with footage of Dr. Suzy’s signature “Brothers and Sisters, Lovers and Sinners…” which leads into her monologue on ethical hedonism that also kicks off Real Sex 25. The moment is followed by a present-day interview with Dr. Suzy, where she states that Real Sex was “a sexual revolution—for television.”
After making cameo appearances on a few of the very first Real Sex shows, Dr. Suzy was first featured on Real Sex 11 in 1995, then again on Real Sex 25 in 1999. In between her Real Sex segments, HBO launched two half-hour spin-offs hosted by Dr. Suzy, Radio Sex TV (1997) and Radio Sex TV 2: Off the Dial (1998), all about “Sex. Fun. Wisdom.” Both were #1-rated Nielsen specials.
“Sex on TV” also shows a Real Sex 11 clip of Dr. Suzy broadcasting her live syndicated radio show from bed 28 years ago, juxtaposed with her present-day studio as she broadcasts alongside her husband of over 30 years (also appearing in Radio Sex TV and her Real Sex segments), Max Lobkowicz, on F.D.R. Radio, where she still helps callers with their love lives, still educating, exploring and sharing “sex… fun… wisdom.”
The episode also includes interviews with former head of HBO Documentary Films and Real Sex executive producer Sheila Nevins, former HBO President Michael Fuchs, Real Sex lead producer Patti Kaplan, producer/director Deb Wasser, and other members of the female-led Real Sex production team, along with appearances by sex educator Tristan Taormino (another Real Sex featured guest), as well as comedians Nikki Glaser, Lunell, Joanna Briley, Zach Noe Towers, and adult performer Silvia Saige, all of whom say they *grew up on* Real Sex when it aired on HBO, and a few of whom would love to *bring it back* in some form.
In her Vice interview, Dr. Suzy talks about how Real Sex greatly expanded her audience, enabling her to reach people all over the world, as it helped so many others to share their sexual experience, insight and joy via this unique and remarkable TV show.
- For Dr. Suzy’s appearance on Sex Before the Internet, click the arrow above, and for more info, visit com/hbo#Vice.
- To watch Dr. Suzy on Real Sex, as well as her Real Sex spinoff specials, Radio Sex TV and Radio Sex TV: Off the Dial, on HBO, visit com/hbo.
- To see the full episode of Sex Before the Internet episode 5, “Sex on TV,” click here.
“Sex on the Internet” Aquitania Films Shoot Photo Gallery
PHOTOS: HARRY SAPIEN, UNSCENE ABE, SUSAN BLOCK
Bonoboville Photos: Harry Sapien & Susan Block. Frames from Vice TV’s “Sex on the Internet”: Aquitania Films
Dr. Susan Block Gives “State of the Sexual Union” Address 2023 on WCAP-AM 980
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Back by popular demand after her 2021 and 2022 “State of the Sexual Union” (SOTSU) addresses, world-renowned sexologist Dr. Susan Block, aka Dr. Suzy, returned to Active Radio with host Hartley Pleshaw on WCAP-AM 980 in the Massachusetts Valley on 2/25/23 to deliver a new SOTSU address for 2023.
“We had Joe Biden’s State of the Union last week. We had Vladimir Putin’s address. Well, those were just amateurs,” opined Hartley Pleshaw by way of introduction. “Today you’re going to get what we consider to be the most important state of the union – State of the Sexual Union, I should say – address of 2023, the one and only Dr. Susan Block… sexologist supreme.”
The two then discussed a variety of topics within the “meeting ground of sex, politics and culture which” Hartley says, “I believe [Dr. Susan Block] covers and handles better than anyone in the present contemporary scene.”
Just before the end, at the climax of the show, Dr. Suzy delivered the heart of her 2023 SOTSU address, her passionate “I Have a Fantasy” speech, inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King’s iconic 1963 “I Have a Dream” speech, updated for 2023.
Some of the subjects discussed include:
- War: Right after Dr. Suzy’s 2022 SOTSU address, Russia bombed Ukraine, and now America and most of Europe are at war with Russia, putting much of the world on a warpath which is the opposite of the Bonobo Way, the path of peace through pleasure. This warpath, mapped out for us by the war profiteers within the Miltary-Industrial Complex, dominates our budget, our hearts and minds and some of our bodies. During this year of war, Dr. Suzy responded with “Make Kink Not War” at her Yale Reunion, DomCon and on FDR, one of her key “fantasies” being to replace the Capitalocene, which values war for profit, with the Bonobocene, valuing female empowerment, male well-being, sharing resources, good sex and peace through pleasure. That’s one reason the theme of Dr. Suzy’s annual presentation at DomCon 2022 was Make Kink Not War: Be Bonobo.
- Censorship by Bot: The “Artificial Intelligence” (AI)—or as Dr. Suzy calls it, “Artificial Ignorance”—that terminated The Dr. Susan Block Show channel (and many other great shows and channels) on YouTube, and her remarkably effective “Block Curse” on YouTube CEO and Censor-in-Chief Susan Wojcicki who subsequently resigned. Nevertheless, despite the power of “Block Magic,” she says that Free Speech—in terms of noncorporate sex education and political expression—is still being unfairly censored in our more and more corporate, and less and less human (let alone humane) social media.
- Real Sex: Hartley dubs Dr. Suzy the “Official Sexologist of Active Radio” and commends her recent appearance in Vice TV’s Sex before the Internet episode 5, explores how HBO’s Real Sex revolutionized the portrayal of sex on television.
- DeSantis: Prompted by Hartley’s questions about the book-burning Florida Governor’s “Don’t Say Gay” programs, coupled with his 2024 U.S. Presidential ambitions, Dr. Suzy delves into the fascism-lite “phony cafone” populism and sadistic personality traits of her fellow Yale grad (Class of 2001, also a member in the infamous Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, like G.W. Bush), Ron DeSantis and his personal record of torture and deception when he was a CIA lawyer stationed at Guantanamo prison as described in an interview conducted by Mike Prysner (the marvelous Abby Martin’s awesome husband) with one of his former prisoners.
- Trump: Hartley asks Dr. Suzy to address sexual conservatives’ support for Trump, a sexual libertine, to which she replies, “In a word, it’s hypocrisy,” then talks about how a libertine created a S. Supreme Court of the Religious Right to rule a citizenry that’s less religious than ever.
- Drag: When Hartley asks Dr. Suzy her views on the “Republican jihad about drag queens,” she discusses the history of ”drag” from prehistoric times to Shakespeare to now, and how closeted crossdressing, bisexual desires, erotophobia and shame mix with Rightwing politicians’ cynical and divisive approach to this “culture wedge” issue, creating a ridiculous yet very dangerous anti-Drag Queen/anti-trans crusade that has triggered mass shootings and other violence.
- “I Have a Fantasy”: Dr. Suzy delivers her latest rendition of “I Have a Fantasy,” inspired by MLK’s “I Have a Dream.”
Click here for a list of her 2023 fantasies as reprised on FDR.
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Abby Martin & Mike Prysner Interview Dr. Susan Block on “DOSED”
Esteemed and intrepid investigative journalist (Breaking the Set, The Empire Files, Media Roots), artist, activist and commentator, Abby Martin, along with her partner, political activist Mike Prysner, interviewed Dr. Susan Block on episode #22 of their live Callin show, “DOSED With Abby Martin.” For each episode, Martin invites different public figures and freethinkers to offer their insights on what’s happening in the world today.
On this broadcast, Martin and Prysner ask Block for her unique sexological perspective of current events, especially violence, war and politics—which is tied to Martin’s opening question, “Would you say that America has a healthy relationship to sex and our bodies?”
Martin begins with a riveting reading from Block’s acclaimed 2001 essay, “Sex Not Bombs” in which she compares the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Centers to a “castration” of America’s great phallic towers of power. Then Martin and Prysner ask Block for her views on sexuality and violence in America, and the discussion delves into the relatively liberated Native American tribes vs. the strict, punishing Puritans who invaded this land and the Neo-Puritans on the Supreme Court now controlling it. As Block sees it, the American denigration of natural diverse sexuality—sex for recreation, not just procreation—has played a significant part in our high levels of violence, misogyny, mass murder, ammosexual incels on the march, perma wars, “forced breeding” and “forced feeding,” along with the increasing mechanization, militarization and polarization that is engineering the economic and ecological collapse of America and perhaps human civilization. A bleak horizon, but Block sees a glimmer of hope in our kissing cousins, the “Make Love Not War” bonobos, and believes that following a “Bonobo Way” of peace through pleasure, female empowerment, male well-being and sharing resources, could go a long way toward solving some of these problems.
The discussion, which includes calls from the audience, runs over two hours. This marks the first time that Martin has interviewed Block, though Block interviewed Martin on “The Dr. Susan Block Show” in 2015, and Martin’s brother (who makes a quick appearance on this show) Robbie Martin interviewed Block on Media Roots about two years ago. Abby and Mike both make a brief appearance on Block’s Bonoboville Reunion show released in the Spring of 2022.
Episode #22 of “Dosed” is now available on all major streaming platforms.
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Dr. Susan Block Gives “State of the Sexual Union” Address on WCAP-AM 98
Following a rousing reception to her 2021 “State of the Sexual Union” address, world-renowned sex therapist and “Sexologist of the Year” Dr. Susan Block, aka Dr. Suzy, returned to Active Radio with host Hartley Pleshaw on WCAP-AM 980 in the Massachusetts Valley to deliver a new State of the Sexual Union address for 2022.
Broadcast live 2/12/22, this special Valentine’s Day weekend address and interview focused on some of the major themes and events of the past year, including
- The ongoing Coronapocalypse, and how singles and couples are navigating the difficulties and opportunities of pandemic sex
- 2022 improvement: We don’t have a grifting, sociopathic narcissist in the White House, but we do have a geriatric neoliberal corporate military industrial complex cheerleader, which is only marginally better
- The 1/6/21 Insurrection and its noxious aftermath
- The Afghan war and the monstrous American Miitary-Industrial Complex
- The Massage Parlor Massacre and the general rise in misogynistic ammosexual violence and discourse
- Andrew Cuomo, #MeToo and the backlash
- Joe Rogan, Jordan Peterson and the masculinist incel movement
- Distinguished leftist journalist Chris Hedges “plague of pornography” campaign is dangerously misguided
- Neopuritanism rising on the Right and the Left
- Toxic masculinity and toxic femininity
- The American Conservative and the misogynistic Sexual Counterrevolution
- The atrocity of Julian Assange still being imprisoned
- Small win for sex this year: Onlyfans flipped
- Stormy Daniels won her suit against Avenatti
- The ominous anti-sex, anti-Free Speech “EARN IT” act is worse than the proven-to-be-bad SESTA/FOSTA acts
- Lupercalia, the original pagan Valentine’s Day
- Happy World Bonobo Day! Help save humanity’s closest great ape cousins, the bonobo chimpanzees, from extinction – and release your inner bonobo for better sex and a better life
- The Bonobo Way of ecosexuality, female empowerment and male well-being, sharing, caring and peace through pleasure.
Click here to listen to Dr. Suzy’s 2021 State of Sexual Union address.
Listen to Dr. Suzy’s 2022 version of her “I Have a Fantasy” speech on FDR Radio’s Valentine Fantasies & Neopuritanical Nightmares.
Click the pic above to listen to Dr. Suzy’s 2022 State of the Sexual Union address and chat with Hartley Pleshaw.
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Dr. Susan Block wins “Sexologist of the Year” (2021) for her third Glenny Award
The Glenny Awards have announced that Dr. Susan Block is the winner of the “Sexologist of the Year” award 2021. Announced at the cusp of 2022, the Glennys are produced by Sex in the Pews and Glenn Klein Online host Glenn Klein.
Dr. Susan Block, a.k.a. “Dr. Suzy,” has been a sexologist and sex therapist in private practice for 30 years. Perhaps best-known for her HBO specials, she hosts The Dr. Susan Block Show and co-hosts F.D.R. (F*ck Da Rich), along with her husband and collaborator, Pr. Maximillian R. Lobkowicz. She is also a bestselling author of several books, including her latest, The Bonobo Way: The Evolution of Peace through Pleasure, and an advocate for the highly endangered “Make Love Not War” bonobo apes. A longtime journalist and commentator, her columns on sexuality, politics, art and culture appear in Counterpunch and other publications, including her own Speakeasy Journal.
This is Dr. Suzy’s third “Sexologist of the Year” Glenny award in a row! She won her first in 2019 for her premier “Sex in the Pews” interview (episode #58) based upon her bonoboësque philosophy of “Ethical Hedonism.” The interview went “viral,” according to Coach Glenn, scoring the most hits that year. In episode 270 of Sex in the Pews, “Sex is the Essence of Life,” her illuminating answer to the question, “What happens when life gets in the way of sex?” garnered her second Glenny award.
Now three’s the charm. “The great Greek philosopher Pythagoras considered ‘three’ to be the perfect number of harmony, wisdom and understanding,” says Dr. Suzy. “Plus it’s a hat trick, an honor and a pleasure. The Glennys are better and sexier than the Grammys or the Emmys, and not just because the Grammys and the Emmys don’t give “Sexologist of the Year” awards, but because with Neo-Puritan fervor rising on the Right and the Left, it’s important to acknowledge good sex. So, I will continue to use my platform as ‘Sexologist of the Year’ to speak out for love not war, freedom of speech, sexological research and sexual healing, as well as advocating for our highly endangered bonobo great ape cousins who show us the way to consensual sex-positivity, female empowerment, male well-being, sharing, caring, ecosexuality and peace through pleasure. There are so much to do this year, but I’ll never quit my day job helping people privately with that most sensitive of subjects, human sexuality.”
Find out more about Dr. Suzy’s other “Sexologist of the Year” Glenny awards here and here.
To arrange an interview, call 213-291-9497 or email DrSusanBlock@gmail.com. For private telephone sex therapy sessions with Dr. Susan Block or one of her Therapists Without Borders, call 213-291-9497.
TikTok SPLOSH with Dr. Susan Block on Screen Shot Media
Sploshing is the latest TikTok food trend with thousands of sexy chefs and gourmets preparing sensuous “food hacks,” spilling cream or suggestively eating sausages. Splosh isn’t a new concept though; it’s been around for ages. Just ask Dr. Suzy! Journalist Malavika Pradeep did just that for “Inside the wet and messy world of sploshing, the latest food festish on TikTok” (10/16/21) on UK-based Screen Shot Media, conducting an in-depth interview with internationally renowned sexologist and sploshologist, Dr. Susan Block, about the deliciously messy ins and outs of erotic food play. In the article, Dr. Block gives an extensive overview of splosh, why it’s so appealing, how to enjoy splosh properly, and the roots of this fun and messy fetish in human history. Quoted along with several TikTokers and splosh enthusiasts, Dr. Block is the main authoritative source for the piece. The article also includes many delicious excerpts and photos from Dr. Block’s Splosh ‘n’ Art Speakeasy Journal, featuring Daniele Watts, Rawkstar Chef BeLive, Gypsy Bonobo and Jiin Christou.
MEL Magazine interviews Dr. Susan Block for “The Private Lives of Straight Men with Sugar Daddies”
You’ve heard of “gay-for-pay” in porn, but how about sugar dating? Mel Magazine’s Mark Hay interviewed Dr. Susan Block for his article about the rising phenomenon of heterosexual male sugar babies who are paid to have sex with men entitled “The Private Lives of Straight Men with Sugar Daddies” (9/21). Dr. Block, whose book The Bonobo Way was the basis for the Mel-produced video, “3 Ways to Live Like a Bonobo,” shares her sexologist‘s perspective throughout Hay’s article, along with other experts, and why this seemingly incongruous arrangement remains a “pretty secretive” yet increasingly popular topic. The article can be found here.
Block also discussed the Mel article on F.D.R. radio and fleshed out her thoughts on straight male Sugar Babies seeking Sugar Daddies in her journal here.
Mattress Madness: Dr. Susan Block’s dispute with Arcadia Zoning Board covered in LA Daily News & Pasadena Star News
Annekai Geshlider’s article on Dr. Susan Block and her husband and business partner Maximillian R. Lobkowicz’s ongoing battle with the city of Arcadia’s zoning department was published in the Pasadena Star News, L.A. Daily News, San Gabriel Valley Tribune and other associated newspapers on 9/27/21. The report investigates the city of Arcadia’s constantly changing claims, a “surprise” inspection ordered by the department, and the discrimination and harassment that Block, Lobkowicz and their company, Saybrook Media, have endured since they moved into the building in March 2019. The article also includes quotes from Arcadia building licensing officer Amber Abeyta, the ringleader in the city inspection office’s efforts to discredit and displace Block, Lobkowicz and their volunteers. “It’s mostly a good article, thanks to Kai Geshlider’s in-depth reporting. Still, a lot of critical facts are missing,” says Block. “So, it’s important to set the record straight about some of the issues, injustices and downright ‘Mattress Madness’ currently gripping the Arcadia Zoning Board.” Therefore, Block has provided some facts and commentary in between passages of the original article which can be read here.
WASHINGTON BABYLON features Ken Silverstein’s “11 Minutes” with Dr. Susan Block
Eminent investigative journalist (Vice, LA Times, NY Observer, Harper’s & more) and co-founder of Counterpunch, Ken Silverstein interviewed Dr. Susan Block for his podcast, Washington Babylon, an incisive and satirical approach to politics as usual—and unusual. Episode 26 is entitled “11 Minutes With Sexologist Susan Block on Sex Therapy, The Bonobo Way, and Billionaire Penis Size,” though time flies, and it winds up going twice that long—though it feels like half!
Topics include sexology and sex therapy at the Dr. Susan Block Institute for the Erotic Arts and Sciences; The Bonobo Way of female empowerment, male well-being and peace through pleasure; Sperm Wars and the insufferable “Billionaire Dicks in Space Race”; the legendary Dr. Susan Block Show; the founding of Counterpunch and the late great Alexander Cockburn; prurient police raids on Block Studios (including one on the day of this interview!) and more.
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“Voices for Nature and Peace” interviews Dr. Susan Block about Bonobos and The Bonobo Way
Dr. Susan Block’s fellow Counterpunch contributor Kollibri terre Sonnenblume interviews her on his “Radio Free Sunroot” podcast, “Voices for Nature and Peace,” dedicated to discussing “issues of ecology, empire, justice, and consciousness with guests who are aware of the challenges of our time and are working to address them.” In episode 62, Dr. Block shares her knowledge of the groundbreaking Bonobo Way (also the title of the episode). Over the course of the show Block and Sonnenblume discuss how close bonobo great apes are to us humans and how bonobo culture is like prehistoric human hunter-gatherers, bonobo female empowerment, male bonobo well-being and bisexuality, how the “bonobo handshake” resembles the way people used to testify by touching their testicles in Old Testament times, bonobo ecosexuality, bonobo nonmonogamy, how bonobos make peace through pleasure, how sex makes you smarter, sexual puritanism on the Left as well as the Right, releasing your inner bonobo, groups that are saving the highly endangered bonobos from extinction in the wild and more.
Listen to the interview on Radio Free Sunroot or on YouTube.
Dr. Susan Block Gives “State of Sexual Union” Address on WCAP-AM 980
“Active Radio” host Hartley Pleshaw interviewed Dr. Susan Block on WCAP-AM 980 live 2/6/21 throughout the Massachusetts Valley area. Generally covering politics and culture, Dr. Block’s interview is Active Radio’s first episode entirely dedicated to love and sexuality. Bringing her special expertise to live talk radio, the “Theater of the Mind,” once again, Block talks with Pleshaw about a variety of sex and romance-related topics, from “Love in the Time of Coronavirus” and the study of Sexology to Big Tech social media censorship; the #MeToo movement; Trump’s bad influence on sexual expression; bonobos and The Bonobo Way of peace through pleasure and more. When Pleshaw requests that she give a “State of the Sexual Union” address, Block delivers “I Have a Fantasy,” inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech at the 1963 March on Washington. A rousing address, “I Have a Fantasy” (also available on F.D.R. (F*ck Da Rich): Fantasy Tailgating) hopes for a better, more bonoboësque world with greater acceptance of all forms of consensual sexuality and erotic freedom of expression. Click the pic to listen.
ROBBIE MARTIN interviews DR. SUSAN BLOCK on MEDIA ROOTS RADIO
How does human sexuality influence politics? How are politicians now trying to control sex? “Sex Workers Battled Big Tech First, Obscenity Laws & Cuckolding in the Trump-era with Dr. Susan Block,” hosted by Robbie Martin on Media Roots Radio, explores these issues and more in this riveting, revealing and inspirational interview. After the Trump Riots and before the Biden inauguration, Robbie and Susan discuss the rioters’ sexual motivations and the insurrection itself as an “orgy of violence”; the growing popularity of cuckolding, practiced actively by Trump operatives, Paul Manafort and Roger Stone, and the hypocritical weaponizing of the term “cuck”; the destructive effects of SESTA/FOSTA laws on sex workers’ lives and on all of our Freedom of Speech, and the looming threat of SISEA (Stop Internet Exploitation Act); Vice President Kamala Harris’ worrisome record as California Attorney General aggressively prosecuting sex workers and Backpage; the “Chilling Effect” on the porn industry and all forms of erotic expression from “set up” cases like Max Hardcore’s (on The Dr. Susan Block Show shortly after his release from prison in 2011); the benefits of lust over greed; the inspirational example of our close great ape cousins, the bonobos, and The Bonobo Way of peace through pleasure, and much more. Media Roots Radio is a “non-partisan, radical political podcast focusing on foreign policy, the police state, and social issues” co-hosted by filmmaker Robbie Martin and his sister, journalist Abby Martin, interviewed on The Dr. Susan Block Show in 2014, host of The Empire Files and formerly of Breaking the Set (RT). Dr. Susan Block is an award-winning sexologist, talk show host, best-selling author of The Bonobo Way, advocate for bonobo conservation, columnist and sex therapist in private practice. Listen to the interview here.
Dr. Susan Block Wins “Sexologist of the Year” Glenny Award for Second Year in a Row
The Glenny Awards have announced that Dr. Susan Block, aka “Dr. Suzy,” is the winner of the 2020 “Sexologist of the Year” award. Produced by the “Sex in the Pews” podcast, the Glennys are presented annually by host Glenn Klein. In Dr. Suzy’s award-winning 2020 “Sex in the Pews” interview, “Sex is the Essence of Life” (episode 270), she answers the question, “What happens when life gets in the way of sex?” This is her second time winning “Sexologist of the Year,” the first having been for her premier “Sex in the Pews” interview in 2019 regarding her bonoboësque philosophy of “Ethical Hedonism” (episode #58). According to Coach Glenn, it went “viral,” scoring the most hits that year. “I’m delighted to accept my second ‘Sexologist of the Year’ Glenny Award,” says Dr. Suzy, a sex therapist in private practice, world-renowned sexologist, host of The Dr. Susan Block Show, co-host of F.D.R. (F*ck Da Rich) and bestselling author of The Bonobo Way: The Evolution of Peace through Pleasure. “I was ready to debate my fellow sexologists or wrestle them in the ring, see who squirts the farthest or could talk about sex the longest; whatever it took to defend my title. Thankfully, all I had to do was sit back and enjoy another great conversation with the sapiosexually stimulating Glenn Klein.” Listen to Dr. Susan Block’s award-winning interviews here and here. Find out more about her first Sexologist of the Year award here.
Dr. Susan Block Wins “Sexologist of the Year” Glenny Award for Second Year in a Row
The Glenny Awards have announced that Dr. Susan Block, aka “Dr. Suzy,” is the winner of the 2020 “Sexologist of the Year” award. Produced by the “Sex in the Pews” podcast, the Glennys are presented annually by host Glenn Klein. In Dr. Suzy’s award-winning 2020 “Sex in the Pews” interview, “Sex is the Essence of Life” (episode 270), she answers the question, “What happens when life gets in the way of sex?” This is her second time winning “Sexologist of the Year,” the first having been for her premier “Sex in the Pews” interview in 2019 regarding her bonoboësque philosophy of “Ethical Hedonism” (episode #58). According to Coach Glenn, it went “viral,” scoring the most hits that year. “I’m delighted to accept my second ‘Sexologist of the Year’ Glenny Award,” says Dr. Suzy, a sex therapist in private practice, world-renowned sexologist, host of The Dr. Susan Block Show, co-host of F.D.R. (F*ck Da Rich) and bestselling author of The Bonobo Way: The Evolution of Peace through Pleasure. “I was ready to debate my fellow sexologists or wrestle them in the ring, see who squirts the farthest or could talk about sex the longest; whatever it took to defend my title. Thankfully, all I had to do was sit back and enjoy another great conversation with the sapiosexually stimulating Glenn Klein.” Listen to Dr. Susan Block’s award-winning interviews here and here. Find out more about her first Sexologist of the Year award here.
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Susan M. Block, Ph.D., a.k.a. “Dr. Suzy,” world-renowned sexologist and leading champion of sex education, erotic freedom and the highly endangered bonobo apes, is perhaps best-known for her groundbreaking specials on HBO. Host of the famous—and slightly infamous—Dr. Susan Block Show, broadcasting on radio, cable TV and the Internet for over 30 years, Dr. Block is a magna cum laude graduate of Yale University with a Ph.D. in sexology from the Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality, and a co-founder of Sex Week at Yale, inspiring similar college-student-based sex education conferences around the world. A best-selling, award-winning author, Dr. Block’s latest book, The Bonobo Way: The Evolution of Peace through Pleasure, has been acclaimed for its paradigm-shifting vision, humor and sound advice by journalists, sexperts, statesmen, primatologists and porn stars.
Director of the Dr. Susan Block Institute for the Erotic Arts & Sciences, she is a top contributor to the Wiley-Blackwell International Encyclopedia of Human Sexuality, authoring “extended explorations” on “Sexual Fetishes,” “Phone Sex” and “Striptease,” as well as definitive articles on “Spanking” and “Cuckolding.” Recently, she wrote the foreword to the award-winning Ecosexuality collection, and her writings on sex, politics and culture have been published in a variety of publications from Counterpunch to Cosmo to her own Journal. But she’ll never quit her “day job” as a therapist in private practice, helping thousands of individuals, couples and groups, from California to Saudi Arabia, to explore, understand, discipline, enhance, share and enjoy their sexuality.
Married for over 23 years to Pr. Maximillian R. Lobkowicz, pioneering publisher of the first “reader-written” media such as the LA Star, Love, Hate, Finger, The Brentwood Bla Bla and Beverly Hills, the Magazine, the two founded and direct Bonoboville, both a new social-media and a real “socialist/capitalist,” pro-sex community in Los Angeles, known for producing the first reality-based sexuality programs, convivial “Speakeasies,” bonoboësque gatherings, erotic art exhibitions, bacchanalian soirées, life-changing lectures, sex-educational seminars, and priceless moments of communal ecstasy, with a portion of all proceeds going to help save the highly endangered real bonobos in the wild.
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