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Like we said back in the sixties, “Make love, not war!”
“The Bonobo Way is a delightful, insightful look at how our closest genetic cousins embrace all aspects of sexual pleasure, showing us how masturbation, bisexuality, gender equality, sexual diversity and all other forms of sexual expression are not only natural, but vital to keeping the peace. Like we said back in the sixties, “Make love, not war!”
Author of Orgasms for Two, Betty Dodson Ph.D
Dr. Susan Block’s “The Bonobo Way” Launches
“Dr. Block is well known for her popular talk show, The Dr. Susan Block Show, and runs a successful sexologist empire which includes a wealth of educational information, sex therapy, not to mention everything you might need to know about bonobo apes!”
Dr. Susan Block’s “The Bonobo Way” Launches
by Paula Tiberius
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“Sex Across America” on DrSuzy.Tv with Silky & Luc + Friends & Squirting Lovers
Length 1:44:44 Date: Aug. 16, 2014
From Ferguson to Washington, murder and mayhem are heating up the land, much of it committed by officers sworn to protect and serve their communities, but too often behaving like military forces in enemy territory complete with combat gear and tanks in the street stoking the flames of discontent.
What to do? It’s complicated, of course, but the only real, viable antidote to hate is love, and the most effective remedy to all this violence across America is “Sex Across America.” That also happens to be the name of the pet project and passion of my featured guests on this show, porn star power couple (married 14 years), AVN Hall of Famers and one of the most loving, community-oriented, dynamic duos I know, Alexandra Silk and Luc Wylder.
Alexandra, a.k.a. Alex, a.k.a. Silky, is probably best known for her iconic role as the saucy “bailiff” on Playboy TV’s Sex Court (swear on her bubble butt to tell the truth!). “All rise” indeed. Raised in an orthodox Jewish home, she rose to the top of the porn industry without her devout family even knowing what she does. Truly bonoboësque in form and spirit, Silky loves to get naked and play… and squirt! We start this live broadcast with a clip from her virgin DrSuzy.Tv appearance in the Porn Star Penis Dialogues after-party when she squirted all over the Speakeasy bar! By the end of this show, I’ve got her gushing again, and this time her fragrant Holy Water soaks a towel with the American flag; now that’s what I call Sex Across America! This show is streaming in more ways than one. Not only is Silky a sex bomb, she’s also a certified sex surrogate, and she exudes a very special warmth and genuine empathy, like the real bonobos, channeling her effervescent sexuality into giving pleasure and helping others.
Luc is a gentleman and a gentle man, the Dom in their D/s relationship, whose solidity gives his hot wife the freedom to “go bonobos” without shame. Luc is now celebrating the rise of his adult video company Fallen Angel to the top of Adam & Eve’s most popular list. His biopic of Christian Mann, the last in-depth interview given by the late great porn industry maven before he died, was the highlight of Mann’s recent memorial gathering. “If a terrorist wanted to take out all the leaders of adult entertainment, they could have done it right there,” Luc points out.
Yes, death with a capital D keeps rearing its heavy head in between all the light fun and sweet sex on this show. We bid adieu to a few other people we know, as well as folks the media makes us feel like we know, watching Robin William’s amazing conversation with Koko the Gorilla and Laura Bacall giving new meaning to the term blow job. I say farewell to my eldest cousin Bobby Alper, the first of my generation of cousins to go. And we mourn Michael Brown, the unarmed teenager shot and killed by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson for what appears to be no good reason at all.
Of course, death isn’t always a bad thing. For instance, Luc gives us the scoop on how the unrealistic, potentially lethal-to-the-California-porn-industry statewide condom Bill AB-1576 just died in committee. Thank god and the goddess that the lubricated rubber of reason cockblocked this legislation in the California Senate, for now…
Back to life, sex and fun: Luc does non-alcoholic Bonoboville Communion from Silky’s ample naturals. Then Silky drops to her knees and crawls across the floor to take hers from my clit! I reward her with a Doc Johnson Pocket Rocket (Drop Pocket Rockets, Not Patriot Missiles!) that she proceeds to ride to the sexual moon.
With 15 minutes to go, Raw Vegan Slave Goddess Cici joins the mini-orgy, along with her friends, tantric energy healer Scott Smith of “Sex Positive Ventura” and the mysterious amrita-spraying MILF, Tina Romantica. After a bared boobalicious Dirty Tequila-infused Bonoboville Communion, Scott demonstrates his fingering technique on a very juicy Tina who squirts all over her chair, as Silky keeps gushing over my hand. With all the Holy Water shooting and dribbling over the terrycloth stars and stripes, it’s very WET Sex Across America indeed. Stream DrSuzy.Tv to see what I mean by “streaming” or watch from Bonoboville when you join.
More Shout-Outs to…
Dr. Betty Dodson: Turns out that one of the stars of Sex Across America taught me to have my first orgasm at age 19. Well, she is the Godmother of Masturbation…
Candida Royalle: Another key Sex Across America player, recently censored by Facebook, is now making a biopic about her life as Golden Age porn star and pioneer erotica director.
Condomania: Even though it’s good to hear Bill AB-1576 went down, whether you’re going down or in, we advocate condom use whenever there’s any doubt as to the health of your partner or sterility of your sex toy, and Condomania has all the best condoms.
Woodhull Freedom Alliance: Hope you’re having a great Summit supporting sexual freedom!
CatalystCon: Never been to one of these, but Luc invited me and it’s right in LA, so maybe I’ll be going this year, which means maybe you should go too!
Neil deGrasse Tyson: Great meeting one of my media heroes at Friday night’s Emmys party! I was starry-eyed… He was starry-tied… From Cosmos to bonobos, kudos to Dr. Tyson for standing up for science on the likes of Fox-TV!
#JewsandArabsrefusetobeenemies: This is the only side we have any interest in being on in the horrendous Holy Land situation. Let’s stop the killing and have more SEX Around the World. Let’s disarm ourselves through our natural, bonoboësque lust for the stranger, a.k.a., the “enemy.” Let’s give peace, through pleasure, a chance. Amen and Awomen.
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From Summer Camp To Sexologist: Dr. Suzy Talks Porn, Purim, and her “10 Commandments Of Pleasure”
“It was through Real Sex that I first became aware of Dr. Susan Block (“Dr. Suzy” to her fans) and her work as one of the country’s leading sexologists. As I would later discover, she is a dedicated First Amendment activist, private therapist, and, along with her husband Max, hostess to some of the wildest Jewish holiday parties imaginable: Bacchanals in which the traditional stories that make up the foundation of holidays like Passover and Hanukkah are celebrated with such hedonistic abandon it would make that other Jewish sexologist (…paging Dr. Ruth Whatshername…) blush.”
From Summer Camp To Sexologist: Dr. Suzy Talks Porn, Purim, and her “10 Commandments Of Pleasure”
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Beyond TABOO with Kay Parker on DrSuzy.Tv
Length 1:31:04 Date: Dec. 14, 2013
As a sex therapist, I hear from many clients with mother issues. Occasionally, some sort of literal sex is involved, though much more often, it’s “emotional incest,” with any and all sex taking place only in the erotic theater of their minds. Common as it is, being a “mother lover” or “mom fetishist” can be a lonely, shame-laced life. Some may find validation for their desires in Freud’s infamous “Oedipus complex,” while mythology buffs may note that the Greek goddess Aphrodite and her son Eros were lovers. But by far the most frequent cultural reference made is to the 1980 adult feature film TABOO (the first of the series), in which a suburban American mother seduces her older teenage son. More specifically, these clients are enthralled, sometimes to the point of obsession, with the performance of the actress who plays that mother, the sensuous, soulful and eternally maternal Aphrodite of porn’s Golden Age: Kay Parker.
Despite her fame, which has only spread with the world-wide availability of Taboo on the Internet, this iconic actress has been a woman of mystery for the past decade or so. Essentially, she has been focusing on her spiritual development, writing her memoir, TABOO: Sacred, Don’t Touch: An Autobiographical Journey Spanning Six Thousand Years (also available on her site) and staying out of the limelight.
So I’m delighted and honored to welcome former adult star Kay Parker—now spiritual guide Kay Taylor, aka author Kay Taylor Parker—into the RadioSUZY1 broadcast studios in Bonoboville at LAX for this live, in-depth, explicit, utterly engrossing and unprecedented interview which you can listen to for free at the link above or watch on DrSuzy.Tv (we’ll have the video of the interview—intercut with Taboo footage—posted in the next couple of days).
For Kay Parker fans, this is a must-see. In the course of our 90-minute one-on-one, Kay tells highlights of the story of her extraordinary life—so far. Though according to her book, she’s “incarnated approximately 182 times”—and that’s just since her arrival on Earth—we concentrate on this life. It begins in the “sad grey world” of Post-WWII England, the world that spawned the Beatles and Rolling Stones, where little Kay experienced much “frustration and a deep sense of not belonging.” Like many youth, Kay escaped her less-than-pleasant reality through fantasy, both on the big screen at the local cinema, where she had an out-of-body experience (OBE) watching Flash Gordon (a fellow Yalie who went off on a series of interplanetary adventures), and in the small screen of her mind, where astral beings beckoned and a voice whispered into her ear, “You are one of the chosen.”
Whether or not you believe in astral beings, if you’re one of the many viewers who will never forget Kay’s powerful performance in Taboo, you might agree that she is, somehow, “chosen” or destined to make her mark on some of the deepest, most conflicted recesses of the human imagination.
Other episodes in her early years seem to have influenced her sexuality and her work. Not surprisingly, Kay had an intense relationship with her dashing daddy who was often away from home. One incident which she calls the “penis du père,” which she describes in detail on this show, involves accidentally seeing her father’s penis for just a few innocent moments before he realized he was naked and dashed away. This was a pivotal moment for sexual awareness when Kay’s father’s feelings of sexual shame virtually transferred themselves like a virus into his young daughter’s impressionable mind.
Kay recalls another childhood occasion when she was examining her genitals, as most healthy children are inclined to do. But when her mother walked in, catching Kay in the act, she slapped her exploratory little hand and warned her to “Never let me catch you doing that again!” Talk about giving her the shame bug… This sort of transference of sexual shame from parent to child has gone on in most human cultures around the world throughout civilized history. It’s one reason Taboo is so powerful, despite its farcical elements. It taps into primal, forbidden longings that simmer just beneath the surface of family life. Well, some families…
Taking a roundabout route through Europe, Kay split dreary Birmingham for sunny Southern Cali in the liberating tumult of the Sexual Revolution, and soon found herself having sex in her fateful first scene as a horny housewife who gets it on with a robot in Sam Weston’s Sexworld. She talks about her roles in several other adult films, as well as a small but distinctive part in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. But we keep coming back to Kirdy Stevens’ eerie Taboo, specifically the scene where Kay’s character, Barbara Scott, seduces her son Paul.
What is it about this scene that’s so intense—not just for fans but for Kay herself? For one thing, as Kay reveals, her own family issues and unspoken desires, combined with her mixed feelings about doing the film in the first place, gave the material a personal edge. Second, Kay had unusually strong chemistry with Mike Ranger, the handsome 26-year-old who played her son Paul, the electricity really crackling, since it was their first sex scene together.
Another element is the character’s state of mind. In the film, Barbara Scott has just been assaulted by no less than four men. First, her own husband treats her like his own personal blow-up doll, after which the shmuck packs his bags and leaves her for another woman. Then she gets a job, and her new boss harasses her. She goes on a blind date with a guy who takes her to an orgy without telling her, where some other lothario molests, humiliates and almost rapes her.
That night, she lies in bed, trying to sleep, but images of her own voluptuous, naked body at the center of that orgy are driving her wild. She masturbates, but that doesn’t seem to help. She reaches for a sedative, finds the bottle empty, throws on a slinky white nightie and ventures down the hall to the medicine cabinet, when she sees her wonderful, handsome, smart, loving, caring son lying naked on his bed with his door open, his giant erection in full bloom. She turns this way and that, unsuccessfully trying to avoid looking at him, torn by deep complex emotions. She knows that what she desires is terribly “taboo” and, unlike some of her more self-centered girlfriends, she’s a careful, caring mom. Then she hears her son moan in his sleep. At least, he appears to be asleep…
That moan, Kay recalls, was what triggered it for her. This was the point at which she really surrendered—as an actress and a human being—to the extraordinary power of that moment and the tsunami of primal passion flowing from mother to son, woman to man, actress to actor, performer to audience, Mother Earth to All Her Children, and back again in the erotic cycle of life.
Kay explains how she discovered an interesting proof of this power when she took a friend’s “muscle test” for passion. Based on kinesiology principles, her friend had her sit with her legs apart, her fingers interlaced behind her neck while she thought of a passionate experience. The stronger the passion, the less likely her friend would be able to push her legs together. On her first and second tries, Kay thought of personal romantic experiences that represented passion to her, but each time her friend pushed her legs together with ease and declared, “No passion.” Then she remembered her seduction scene in Taboo, and her friend found her legs set immovably apart, whereupon he dramatically proclaimed, “That’s passion!”
No wonder it is one of the most beloved scenes in porn history. Another popular Taboo scene occurs when son Paul watches his mother take a shower, soaping, rinsing, toweling off and rubbing lotion into her gloriously nude form before she gets dressed for that fateful orgy date. Though not as intense as the seduction scene itself, the shower is a kind of voyeuristic foreplay, and something with which many people have some experience. After all, not many of us have sex with our parents—nor should we! There are some very valid reasons for the incest taboo—inbreeding, emotional confusion and social problems, to name a few. But many of us have had the unnerving, sometimes erotic, often shame-laced experience of seeing a parent naked, as Kay herself did. Bringing these forbidden incestuous images to life like never before or since, Kay Parker as Barbara Scott imprinted and continues to imprint herself on the collective erotic human imagination. That she does so with tremendous love and sincere warmth is a bonus for viewers of this riveting piece of pornographic cinema.
Full disclosure time: I actually have a very small, non-sex role playing a radio talk show host named Dr. Stella Sydney questioning Jamie Gillis’ character about his theory that fathers are more prone to incest when their wives have sex with other men in Taboo 4. But Kay wasn’t in my episode, and though I’ve long been a fan of hers, and we’d chatted a bit by phone and email, I never met her until this interview… which does seem to have been somehow fated or “chosen” by astral beings. Though we can thank the earthly being of Dave Bertolino for coordinating the interview and driving Kay to RadioSUZY1 studios.
Dave is also helping to coordinate the “Legends of Adult Cinema” section of the Hollywood Show, January 3rd-5th, at the Loews Hollywood Hotel, where Kay will appear (so if you’ve always wanted to meet her, now’s your chance!) along with dozens of other legends and stars of X-rated and mainstream entertainment, including yours truly.
In answer to Panty Boy’s question about which female porn stars she enjoyed working with, Kay mentions Veronica Hart and Seka, and we also give a shout-out to Howie Gordon (who I interviewed live last Saturday about his marvelous Hindsight), all of whom will be at the Hollywood Show.
Then, right after Kay and Dave leave, we get a surprise visit from none other than Ron Jeremy, fresh from his momentous encounter with Elton John (of course, Sir Elton Hercules John is a longtime fan of the Hedgehog), and showing no signs of slowing down despite his aneurism less than a year ago. So we have a little quality “Ron Time,” a bunch of bonobos hanging out in my beautiful new office playing music videos featuring Ron (there are dozens!), while Ron himself autographs Asher’s right boob. Meanwhile, Ron is very excited about the new Bonoboville, claiming it would make the perfect swing club. And yes, there’s sure to be some swinging—from the palm trees, chandeliers, hammocks and jacuzzis—but there’s always something more than swinging going on in Bonoboville… such as exceptional interviews like this one with the luminous Kay Taylor Parker.
P.S. After I finished writing this blog, I got the news that our old pal, Screw Magazine publisher Al Goldstein, just died at the age of 77. I first met Al through Dr. Toni Grant, at the same time I met Ron Jeremy, which was around the time I did that scene in Taboo 4. Al was a good friend, a maverick publisher and a great freedom fighter, arrested almost as many times as Max was. He always encouraged me to be honest, fearless and funny, and he threw delicious brunches at Dupars, Spago’s, the House of Blues and the Friar’s Club, and he took me to the Playboy Mansion so many times, I got sick of it! I will miss you, Al! I’ll say more about him on next Saturday’s show, but I just had to squeeze something in right here when I heard the sad news. RIP Alvin Goldstein (1936-2013).
P.P.S. THIS JUST IN: Word on the tweet is that AL GOLDSTEIN IS NOT DEAD! Is this the Miraculous Resurrection of Al? Not exactly. He is in the hospital, but he’s still alive, as of now. Just goes to show: Don’t believe everything you see on Twitter! Even if your old buddy, professional truth-teller Penn Jillette, tweets it. Hang in there, Al! We love you.
P.P.P.S. Yes, that’s a lot of P-P, but now it’s official: Al’s really dead :( We just got the call from John Clark who talked to Ron Jeremy, and it’s in the New York Times, so it must be true. That’s so like Al–to play a practical joke on the world in his last days here. But the Grim Reaper gets us all, and so we say Good-bye, Al! See you soon at that great Smörgåsbord-in-a-Brothel in the sky! More on the next DrSuzy.Tv show and in the next blog…
Dr. Susan Block Starts The Year With Penthouse Pet Of The Year Jenna Rose
[Dr. Suzy is] joined by the Creator of “Girls & Corpses” Magazine, Robert Steven Rhine, known to his friends and colleagues as “Corpsy“, who brought down his latest female nurse protege, Bonnie Rotten, a barely legal 18 year old who’s ready to take on the horror, tattoo and porn world by storm. After Jenna left the show, Dr. Suzy and Tasia tried to alleviate some of Bonnie’s orgasmic difficulties with a triple vibration sensation.
Dr. Susan Block Starts The Year With Penthouse Pet Of The Year Jenna Rose
by Gary “Prophecy” Sun
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Featured Fuck – Dr Susan Block Show Review
The walls of the large recording studio, a moody fuchsia, are covered with erotic art and lined with luxurious day beds that serve as seating for the audience. The guests for the night sit at a long table of microphones with Susan’s husband Max at the head and just beyond him, the main attraction: a four post bed glittering with sex toys and for this extra special festive occasion, a couple of naked dummy corpses courtesy of Corpsy, one of the guests that night.
Featured Fuck – Dr Susan Block Show Review
by Danielle Bauman
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The Monkey Bible Story Project Features The Bonobo Way
If you’ve got a few minutes, check out this great interview with me on bonobos, sex, science and spirituality: The Story Project Episode 16: The Bonobo Way from Learn More
“Growing Fetish Trend Pedal Pumping Revving and Cranking” cites Fetish Expert, Dr. Susasn Block | The Independent
Susan Block, PhD, a featured sexologist on HBO’s Real Sex andCathouse, explained “the basic kinetic movement is a masturbatory motion: the muscles releasing and contracting as the foot rubs repetitively against a phallic symbol, which is the gas pedal. Men think of themselves as cars. The ‘vroom’ of the engine reminds them of their own libidos being revved up by this hot woman.”
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The Red State Sex Fetish
“The foot is slender, sleek, unmistakably female, and about a size 8, partially enclosed in a six-inch, sequinned white-satin stiletto sandal. In the video, it repeatedly and fruitlessly depresses the car’s gas pedal as the woman revs the ignition and coaxes, “Come on. Start.” Cherry-red polish glints on her nails, and a gold ring encircles her middle toe.
Aroused yet?”
The Red State Sex Fetish
by Anneli Rufus
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Citizen LA on Dr. Suzy’s “Big O” Eros Day X “Orgy for Obama” Inaugural Ball
“Although her ideals have thrust her into the controversial gray areas of first and fourth amendment rights, she has consistently prevailed over those who try to limit her civil liberties, including the LAPD and local politicians.”
Citizen LA on Dr. Suzy’s “Big O” Eros Day X “Orgy for Obama” Inaugural Ball
by Laura Rhinehart
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Doctor Toni Grant – On Being a Woman | Review
DOCTOR TONI GRANT – ON BEING A WOMAN Review by Missy | “Dr. Toni Grant, the once upon a time pioneer radio psychologist who wrote her landmark book in such ELEGANT PROSE in collaboration with Susan Block, and introduced us sweet young things to TERMINOLOGY like Courtesan, Mother, Madonna, and AMAZONS ! ? !”
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Eros Day X + Orgy for Obama
“In addition to honoring Eros, the god of love, lust and life, Block described the event as, “Celebrating hope for a new era of peace-through-pleasure politics and an end to anti-sex militarism in America and around the world, at the climax of a week of balls honoring the historic presidential inauguration of Barack Obama.”” (Photo Gallery)
Eros Day X + Orgy for Obama
by Erin Broadley
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About Dr. Susan Block
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.