Gun Shots or Cum Shots? Sex Vs. Violence in American Media
Length: 108:02 minutes Date: 08/11/2012
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Two mass murders in quick succession got me wondering—yet again—why America is so murderously violent, both abroad and at home. Obviously, there is a rich and tangled tapestry of reasons, one being our sheer number of citizens (statistically, we’re likely to have more mass murders than other countries). Another is the relative convenience with which Americans can acquire automatic weapons; in some states, like Alabama, it’s easier to buy a gun than a sex toy.
Speaking of sex, another reason for all the all-American violence might be that the American Brain leans more toward the “Might Makes Right” than the “Make Love, Not War” school of thought. This is partly an American tradition; our nation was founded by Puritans who came to a new land, brimming with religiously inspired, passionately anti-sex fervor, and essentially mass-murdered most of the natives so they could live in “peace.” That tradition is carried on by an American media and ratings system that consistently rewards violent programming packed with shootings, stabbings and bombings with G or PG ratings, but smacks an X or NC-17 on any film that shows a simple nipple. Shooting someone in the breast is considered PG, as long as that breast is clothed.
What does it mean to grow up under the influence of the consistent American media message that gun shots are “cleaner” and more acceptable than cum shots? At the very least, it’s one more reason that a deeply frustrated, psychotic individual might grab a semiautomatic weapon and mow down his neighbors, rather than just shooting the gun between his legs and taking a nap.
As my favorite developmental neuropsychologist, Dr. James Prescott, found through lab tests with animals and cross-cultural analyses of human societies: “Pleasure and violence have a reciprocal relationship, that is, the presence of one inhibits the other… A raging, violent animal will abruptly calm down when electrodes stimulate the pleasure centers of its brain. Likewise, stimulating the violence centers in the brain can terminate the animal’s sensual pleasure and peaceful behavior. When the brain’s pleasure circuits are ‘on,’ the violence circuits are ‘off,’ and vice versa…As either violence or pleasure goes up, the other goes down.”
Our kissing cousins, the bonobos, show us the way. Whereas common chimps tend to control sex through violence, bonobos control violence with sex. We humans, being about as equally close to bonobos as we are to common chimps, have our erotic bonobo side and our more violent and authoritarian (and Republican?) common chimp side. Personally, I’m rooting for our bonobo side to take over before we blow each other up.
I don’t believe in censorship, except the kind that stops folks from yelling “fire!” in the proverbial crowded theater. So I gathered together a congregation of pundits, publishers, porn stars and puppets (amazing marionettes created by the Team America: World Police “Puppet Man”, actually, but more on that in a minute) to address these sex, life and death issues in the Womb Room broadcast studio.
In terms of the issues, my guests agree to disagree on some points (like the Second Amendment), but we all love the beautiful, naked bodies and the hot, passionate sex that emerges, as it fortunately does in so many glorious editions of The Dr. Susan Block Show. The night climaxes with a cum shot, not a gun shot, in the after-party. So in the Sex vs. Violence competition, sex wins! At least here in BonoboVille, sex wins.
Featured Guests:
Lara Riscol: A Colorado mom and journalist who “questions the stories we tell ourselves about sex,” published in The Nation, Salon, AlterNet, RHReality Check, Religion Dispatches, among others, I discovered Lara upon reading her AlterNet article, “What Terrorizes Americans Most: Guns or Sexual Freedom?”, which inspired the topic for this show. Lara’s pro-sex education stance has gotten her flak from some anti-sex readers, but it wins her new fans on my show.
Robert “Corpsy” Rhine: Deaditor-in-Chief of Girls and Corpses magazine and one of my favorite guests, Corpsy brings sex—or at least, sexy girls—and death (sometimes violent, bloody death) together in his humorous, kink-filled, but PG-rated (though it has some of the goriest-looking corpses imaginable, it has no nudity) magazine. He brings his new issue (Volume 6, Summer) featuring my brand new “Sex To Die For” column. Pick up Girls and Corpses to see how I answer a girl’s question regarding the sex she believes she is having on a nightly basis with the ghost of her late boyfriend, and also check out the photo spread featuring Dr. Susan Block Show producer Tasia Sutor and Starry Knight having kinky fun in a graveyard. We also do another tribute to our late great friend and clown porn princess Holly Stevens, a G&C model and close friend of Corpsy, who recently died from an especially aggressive form of breast cancer. One war we’re all in favor of fighting-to-win is the war against cancer. Fortunately, Max is winning his own personal Big C Battle…so far.
Scott Land: Creator of the legendary marionettes of South Park’s Team America: World Police (check out the hilarious and super kinky Team America puppet sex scene), the ‘Puppet Man” brings an even raunchier, anatomically explicit cast of marionettes to our show, including a flasher who opens up his raincoat to reveal a literally flashing cock and balls (he’s got wood!). We’re also treated to a John McCain lookalike who dances and sits on Tasia’s lap, a clown with a dick that grows like Pinocchio’s nose, an Obama who likes to lick my boobs and a sexy female puppet who engages in some girl-on-puppet action with Missy Martinez. Though the Team America marionettes are some of the most violent puppets on the planet (blowing up the Eiffel Tower, among other things), the new dolls are very bonobo. Speaking of which, thank you, Tasia, for making me a bonobo puppet to greet Scott’s team.
Missy Martinez: A porn star training to become an autopsy technician, Missy met Corpsy on our Prinzzess-Missy Love & Death Fest last year, and upon hearing her shrieking orgasm that could wake the dead, he decided to give her the much coveted title of Corpsette. Though this is Missy’s third time on the show, she does experience an exciting first … puppet sex! She flashes the flasher and (literally) gets wood when she gives a clown puppet a blowjob, and then has a female puppet sit on her face.
Orpheus Black: A polyamorous BDSM master who specializes in choking and spanking, in his third appearance on the show (first two times were Monogamy Sucks and Spankophiliac’s Intermezzo), Orpheus promotes his new Club Hentai, and reminds us that some forms of “violence” can be sexual satisfying for both parties, at least when they’re consensual.
Indigo Black: Orpheus’ first wife showed us how much she enjoyed being consensually choked on Monogamy Sucks, so I’m not surprised to hear her pipe up during our discussion of consensual violence to let us know she sees this as such a natural act to her that she never even considers it “violent.” Again, consensuality is the key, but do not try choking unless you’ve been trained properly. When things go lethally wrong—as they can in an instant–the courts aren’t much kinder to consensual chokers than nonconsensual stranglers.
Tiffany Starr: Featured on Vanilla Sucks and Rubber Bordello, Tif one of the prettiest and spunkiest transsexual porn stars we know. She’s not officially featured on this show, so spends most of it listening to the other guests and quietly making out on the couch with her hot new GF. She then slides in behind me on my show bed and sets about a good mattress-shaking fucking, later coming a hot load onto her chest in the after-party. Yes, cum shots trump gun shots in BonoboVille.
Addie Rose: Tiffany’s new girlfriend takes a break from their makeout session long enough to tell us her story of having been discovered and honorably discharged from the army for being a transwoman.
Kitty Twinkle Toes: Another regular Speakeasy favorite, during the show’s climax, this former Joffrey ballerina swings around the stripper pole wearing nothing but her toe shoes and gives Corpsy a gynecology lesson.
Evilyn Fierce: This pretty BDSM model is quiet as a puppet without a puppeteer. Of course, some of my other guests don’t stop talking, so I don’t have much of a chance to draw her out. Next time, hopefully she’ll show us just how fierce she can be.
Caller Chris wants to know if it’s ok to enjoy pain during sex. We think it is, as long as: a) it’s consensual, and b) it’s not illegal—unless you’re in Alabama, in which case, that “no sex toys” law just needs to be broken and contested until they get rid of it like slavery and sharecropping.
Weapons of Mass Discussion: Sex Vs. Violence, MPAA Censorship, Republicans Are Secretly Kinky, Columbine & Aurora Shootings, Wisconsin Shooting, Gun Control, The Bonobo Way, Sex Education, Talking to Kids About Sex Vs. Talking to Kids About Violence, My New “Sex To Die For” Column In Girls ‘N’ Corpses Magazine, Consensual & Non-Consensual Sex &Violence, BDSM, Court Cases For BDSM Gone Wrong, Choking, Polyamory, Japanese Porn, RapeMan Comic Book, Transsexuals In The Army, Receiving My Honorary Doctorate From the Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality, Chimps Vs. Bonobos: Controlling Sex Through Violence Vs. Controlling Violence Through Sex, Sex Education, Hentai, Japan’s Low Murder/High Suicide Rates, R.I.P. Natalie DeMore, RIP Hollie Stevens
Performance Erotica: Bodacious Bare Boobs (Weapons Of Mass Seduction), Dancing Prancing Marionettes, Puppet Fellatio, Puppet Face Sitting, Striptease, Absinthe Time, Hot Hard Squirting Tranny Sex, Naked Pole-Dance Ballet, Panties for Panty Boy, Playing with the Wendy Williams Ass By Doc Johnson, Pipedream Products Cocks of All Sizes
Multiple thanks, kudos and orgasms to the Dr. Susan Block Institute Staff here in BonoboVille for making this show possible.
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William Patrick Haines
12 · 15 · 12 @ 2:59 pm
Why are people who are a danger to themselves and others allowed to roam around ? Another present from fiscal reactionaries that release the mentally unbalanced to save money. The same folks that believe tax breaks generate revenue so next time a conservative blames the breakdown in society ask where are the funds to house the mentally ill and maybe those folks who signed norqyust pledged ought to fitted for a straight jacket as well
The idea of eliminating violence through society would be more revolutionary than Agriculture the printing press the industrial or abolition of slavery itself . Even when I speculate about the discovery and exploration of other worlds the specter of violence haunts the idea of such an expedition . When I sent you articles about of exoplanets I often included pictures of firearms because . I admit could not conceive of the exploration another world as being a peaceful endeavor . In various sci fi sagas very few encounters are at the Gandhian level of benevolence .
I can no more contemplate a society with no crime or warfare any more than a day without a morning even on the rainiest of days you will still know when dawn and dusk arrives. however both the root of crime and war greatly aggravated when certain economic realities are ignored
http://www.paulkchappell.com/
http://stevenpinker.com/pinker/publications/better-angels-our-nature
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_shooting#History_of_School_Shootings_in_the_United_States
http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/436-2nd-amendment-rights/15027-questions-i-ask-myself-about-connecticut-school-shooting
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/dec2012/conn-d15.shtml
http://www.experienceproject.com/stories/Like-To-Share-News-Stories/2796529
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Kim Fowley
09 · 26 · 12 @ 3:11 pm
Dr. Susan Block is The Most Powerful Woman On The Silver Screen. Robert Rhine & Girls & Corpses are my inspiration to live. Thank you both for letting me be in your presence
Tasia Sutor
08 · 25 · 12 @ 2:43 pm
Thank you SO MUCH Corpsy for making a dream of mine come true by putting me in your, one of a kind, fantastic magazine, Girls and Corpses! I am so honored and so proud! GIRLs and CORPSEs Magazine RULES!!!
Thank you, Scott Land, for bring us your sick, perverted and amazingly detailed marionette puppets! They are magnificent works of art. I was shocked, appalled and traumatized when that filthy hobo clown’s puppet dick rose to the occasion in the poor unsuspecting Missy Martinez’s mouth! She took it like a pro though didn’t she! Good job, Missy! We love you!
And finally, I would like to thank the brilliant, Lara Riscol, for coming to the show. We all were impressed with your thought provoking article ““What Terrorizes Americans Most: Guns or Sexual Freedom?” Thank you for your help in the progress of the Sexual Revolution.
Master Liam
08 · 19 · 12 @ 2:42 pm
Another wet n wild night at the speakeasy. And has love struck again at Dr Susan’s?
William Patrick Haines
08 · 14 · 12 @ 5:33 pm
Dear Dr Block
During our most recent session, you suggested that I comment on the subject of gun violence. 1) The war on drugs has created a demand for assault weapons via dealers defending their lucrative contraband 2) Saint Ronald Wilson Reagan let loose a lot of the mentally il. 3) There has been an economic decline since the Ford Administration which has greatly contributed towards both crime and disease. 4) We continue to maintain a foreign policy that treats troop deployments as trivial as some video game, comic book or b-movie and does not consider that these folks can become a danger towards society.
Another thing, in our session, we talked about the Trojan Vibrator commercial, and I really like that you’re calling it part of the “P Spot Revolution” going on, and I hope you do a blog on that.
Ivy Thornton
08 · 14 · 12 @ 5:15 pm
Was such a great show! Love the interesting discussions.
The Lion in Adelaide
08 · 14 · 12 @ 12:35 pm
Wow, you have the best world one could wish for.
Kelsey Education
08 · 13 · 12 @ 10:39 pm
congrats Dr Block! Love your work!
Addy Rose
08 · 13 · 12 @ 4:10 pm
Had an amazing time on the show with my girlfriend Tiffany. Thanks Dr Suzy!
William Patrick Haines
08 · 13 · 12 @ 3:56 pm
Dear Dr Block
First America excels in self righteousness as well as hypocrisy .But it is not adept at either sincerity or humility or the pursuit of actual intellectualism. It is a mean sprinted anti literate self centered self righteous attitude and often confuses anti-literate pseudo-science with genuine intellectualism
http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/12912-lunatic-ayn-rand-paul-ryans-biggest-influence
in some states, like Alabama, it’s easier to buy a gun than a sex toy.
I saw this advertisement on television by trojan vibrators where the female partner was getting the male partner to perform tricks like dog I and wondering were they actually engaging the male p spot via some anal play
Tiffany Starr
08 · 13 · 12 @ 2:02 pm
I had an amazing time! Always a pleasure. Hope to be around again in a few months.
OBYONETAOPY
08 · 13 · 12 @ 7:16 am
nice article on sex n violence suzy…..so here I am come to show you my vision about violence n sex…
INCESSANT CONFLICTS MEAN NOT TO LOVE, HOW WITH THE INCESSANT LACK OF LOVE, IS IT POSSIBLE TO ACHIEVE HARMONY
(quote from the I CHING book of transformations 2000 years before Christ)
I just translated one hexagram of my book the I CHING of the SUBVERSIVE SIMPLICITY to be more prescise in what I seek to say, because violence n sex r linked, like the BONOBOS understood it….
Of course, the language of this text is not that of a modern language, but at the same time, English is not my mother tongue, and I did not do YALE nor PRINCETON….So accept it as it is…..It has many layers of understandings despite it’s appearing simple and limite naive sometimes….
To some, this kind of language is not understandable….it is on purpose, (do not worry it is not a sign that you are dumbos), because it is a language that is not meant to speak to the ordinary part of the brain we mostly use most of the time to communicate…Rather, it is meant to speak to a higher part of self…..because it is a serious issue……that can not be solved with the issue that caused the world to be in the bad state that we can see it is…..and you do not see all of it’s bad state, but it is in a very bad state…
So here we go….instead of pasting the whole text lot here…I just give you the link to it…
http://i-ching.blog4ever.com/blog/lirarticle-500162-9472572.html
so enabling those of you that don’t like the I CHING, to not click on it and avoid it..
Sor those that click the link…hoping you read it all…..but I have no wish in forcing you to do what you have not freely chosen to do by yourself…so do as you pleases….
Thanks and cheerio sexy Suzy…..best regards to Max the capt bonobo too
Panty Boy
08 · 13 · 12 @ 1:48 am
Dr.Suzy :) Congrats for your Girls N Corpses Column! And GREAT SHOW!!! Best Show is Dr.Suzy Show :) The Best Show of ALL