In a roiling sea of greed-driven, militaristic, misogynistic, racist, kleptocratic, ecocidal patriarchies, DomCon is an island of female empowerment, male well-being and peace through pleasure… with a little bit of pain. It’s the Comic-Con of kink, the Met Gala of BDSM and Game of Thrones without all the gross and gratuitous mass murder and mayhem… and even better outfits. But really, it’s so much more… it’s DomCon!

by Dr. Susan Block Gathered together in our Womb Room, a multi-colored congregation of pundits and porn stars, journalists and fetishists, monogamists and polyamorists, singers and swingers, vamps and veterans, from Hollywood to Tehran, faces the impending Trumpocalypse with lively discussion, Bonoboville Communion, erotic play, music, laughter, striptease… and protective gas masks, just in case.

by Dr. Susan Block In the coming Trumpocalypse, we may all need to wear gasmasks, perhaps as often as we now wear raincoats or sunglasses. Of course, there is no way to prepare for the whimsical Trumpanzee, but if he keeps his promises to gut the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency), so he and his billionaire boys club can pussy-grab Mother Earth, we’re all in for some toxic times.

7 Steps to Healing from Electoral Dysfunction + Trumpocalypse Prep & #NoProp60 Celebration in Bonoboville by Dr. Susan Block As Election 2016 finally heaves itself across the finish line, some celebrate while others mourn. Here in Bonoboville, we do both. We celebrate the glorious and just defeat of California Prop 60 which we worked our sexy butts off to beat, in an erotic rainbow of ways. And we mourn, oh yes, we mourn (most of us in black, sporting Brexit-inspired safety pins) for the seemingly moribund America of our sex-positive, multicultural, environmentally conscious, interracial, gender-equal dreams.

by Dr. Susan Block Smack in the middle of Kink Month 2016, Bonoboville gets smack-happy with a spanking hot birthday celebration and an intense medical examination that may leave you breathless and protecting your crotch. With Trump at the top of the GOP (“Grab Our Pussies,” with a hat tip to Bill Mahr) ticket, there’s a lot to protect your crotch from these days. Indeed, the wannabe Pussy-Grabber-in-Chief makes an appearance on this show; it’s Halloween season, so the scary monsters are coming out of their towers. But the Trumpster is a changed man. Maybe he spent too long in the tanning booth or accidentally took the antidote to whatever whitening potion Michael Jackson used to take. Whatever happened, Donald Trump is now African-American (at least on this show)! Though his face and hair remain orange as a Jack O’Lantern, his tiny hands are a rich chocolate brown. Thus this Ku Klux Klan darling finally realizes that #BlackLivesMatter.

by Dr. Susan Block On the 8th night of Kink Month in Bonoboville, we up the ante in the art of pain with kinky artist/dominas Sheree Rose and Rhiannon Aarons and dazzling pro-domme Mistress Porcelain Midnight. It’s a FemDom fiesta of Bonobo Way book–spankings, boobalicious Bonoboville Communion, hot medical play talk, sadism, masochism, domination, submission, erotic politics and performance art. It’s also a female-empowered response to Trump’s latest dump that’s set off a stink bomb in an already noxious election season with this pumpkin-headed man-baby’s pride in nonconsensually groping women “like a magnet…I don’t even wait… I just… grab ‘em by the pussy.”

by Dr. Susan Block Happy Kink Month, Brothers and Sisters! In case you haven’t heard the word, October is “Kink Month,” as The Stockroom, in its infinite marketing wisdom, has declared. Therefore, it being October 1st, we kick off Kink Month in BOOnoBOOville and throughout the wondrous witchy cosmos with a Kinkster dance, kink-positive talk and an ultra-kinky Bonobo Way book-spanking or three.

by Dr. Susan Block There’s a big bully in town, and he’s picking on porn stars, but you could be next. Seriously, you could, and you will, unless you—that is, we—stop him. The bully is one Michael Weinstein, CEO of the LA-based AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), wannabe California Sex Czar, a Mafia boss for the New Age Nanny State. Herr Weinstein’s latest nonconsensual gambit into our bedrooms is the atrocious, expensive, misleading, nonsensical and downright tyrannical California Proposition 60, on the ballot November 8th. Pretending to “protect” adult performers by requiring that they wear condoms, Prop 60 actually would force them to either leave the state, go underground or don the equivalent of hazmat suits while having sex, even if they are a married, monogamous couple

by Dr. Susan Block Labor Day blossoms into “Labia Day,” like a lush Georgia O’Keeffe flower, in my Womb Room and throughout the verdant Garden of Bonoboville, as we once again strip this venerable old holiday of its corporate baggage, industrial origins and retail hypocrisy, opening up its hidden erogenous doors to the deepest pleasures, passion and the emergence of life.

by Dr. Susan Block What a whirlwind 24 hours, swinging from Beverly Hills to Bonoboville LAX to Hollywood and back to Bonoboville, honoring the dead and celebrating the lives of some very special humans as well as having a blast exploring fetish play the Bonobo Way, and the exciting renewal of the Bonobo Way Female Empowerment Outreach Project on DrSuzy.Tv.

by Dr. Susan Block Brothers and Sisters, Democrats and Republicans, Libertarians and Vegetarians, my fellow Americans, Humans, Great Apes and All of My Fellow Animals on Earth: welcome to the Lesser of Three Evils and the Greatest Sexuality Show on Earth! Welcome to the Trumpocalypse, the Clinton Corruptathon, and this amazing show of FemDom politics and fun smack in the middle of this erotic neurotic and kind of psychotic Election Season. USA! USA!

by Dr. Susan Block We begin this show on a melancholy note, grieving for the dead of Nice, such a sparkling city on the idyllic French Riviera where Capt’n Max and I enjoyed so many romantic moments. Last Thursday, Nice was devastated by a horrific truck attack that literally ran over more than 80 people, gathered together to celebrate one of our favorite holidays, Bastille Day. I would say this is the “latest” mass-murder, except that even more are already popping up in the news, as I write this.

Savannah Fyre SQUIRTS for PEACE on DrSuzy.Tv! by Dr. Susan Block We open this show live from America’s killing fields in the Summer of Blood, white police murdering black men for no good reason and a black sniper killing white police, picking off cops like sitting ducks at a shooting range. As if emerging from an NRA wet dream, everyone is armed. The killers are armed, and in these particular cases, all of the victims are armed too. The police are armed to the teeth with hand-me-down weapons of Perma War, turning our “Peace Officers” into a domestic branch of the U.S. military. And PTSD-damaged veterans of America’s occupation of Afghanistan get armed like the army—legally, especially in Texas. Texans love their guns. And so the chickens come home to roost (hat tip to Malcolm X), and the Summer of Blood is upon us. Will we ever learn the Bonobo Way?

by Dr. Susan Block We are all in transition. Throughout the world, many of us are moving into a more sexually fluid, bonoboësque state of being and doing, for the pleasure and fulfillment of the individual, the betterment of human society, the benefit of many other species (including the bonobos) and quite possibly peace on earth.

by Dr. Susan Block As the clothes come off in Bonoboville, the Confederate flag comes down in South Carolina, and the sweet sounds of the winsome Luzers greet the Bonobo Summer of Love. Toe-tapping Norwegian pop rock with a Hasidic twang, big fake boobs and pierced labia, Cold Cock and Cosby-itis… this show is eclectic with a capital Eeeee! It’s the kind of live broadcast that brings people together from all walks of life, setting The Dr. Susan Block Show apart from all the other shows and making it kind of uncategorizable. On the other hand, it’s just a 21st century spin on old-time Commedia: live music, burlesque and a bit of behind-the-scenes sturm und drang with a bonoboësque twang.  

by Dr. Susan Block Fireworks Not Bombs! That’s our bonobo battle cry for the 4th of July. With America’s 239th birthday falling on a Saturday night, we take DrSuzy.Tv up to the Villa Bonobo roof, where I commemorate the occasion by lighting a sparkling birthday “candle” nestled between Biz Bonobo’s beautiful bodacious butt cheeks, as fireworks from the surrounding beaches, villages and wharves of West LA shimmer and explode all around us.

by Dr. Susan Block Merry Masturbation Month, Brothers and Sinners, Wankers, Yankers, Sperm-Bankers and Monkey-Spankers… In this bubbly celebration of self-pleasure, broadcasting live from Bonoboville, we kick off the M Month with a bang, a buzz, an orgasm, a squirt and a rush of pink-and-blue May-Day-infused communal ecstasy. It’s the pre-game show, bonobo-style. We also lick up some luscious Bonoboville Communion, take in a little M Month history, share funny masturbation stories and present my 8 Great Benefits of Masturbation… because self-pleasure doesn’t *just* feel good; it is good for you.

Yes indeed, this show is the ultimate tuneful top-off to a wonder-filled 24th wedding anniversary week of bacchanalian celebration with bonoboësque friends, lovers, lawyers, icons and porn stars, and an almost continuous stream of music (traditional symbol of 24th wedding anniversaries)—from rap to classical to improvisational to “Making Whoopy” on the ukulele—transporting us to new heights of sublime ear-otica, compliments of the effervescent, eclectic jazz of Elvis Schoenberg and members of The Orchestre Surreal.

By Dr. Susan Block Just the Tip (for now)… THANK YOU, Brothers and Sisters of Bonoboville, for giving Capt’n Max and me such a fantastic, orgiastic, bacchanalian and bonoboësque 24th wedding anniversary send-off from such a pleasure-packed, endorphin-high Womb Room! Thank you for wearing lavender (especially by accident) in observance of the 24th. Thank you for playing your mellifluous musical instruments, strumming our strings, tickling our keys and dancing through our garden naked and free.

by Dr. Susan Block Freedom may be the greatest aphrodisiac, but restraint is a close second. So it is with great erotic excitement, admiration and perky nipples that we welcome to Bonoboville stunningly statuesque bondage expert, pro-Domme and fetish model extraordinaire, Goddess Fae Black and the fantastic FemDom 4. We are beating the drums (and buns!) for DomCon 2016 (last Saturday, with the DTease, we beat our drum so hard, we smashed it!) where I will present The Bonobo Way: A New FemDom Paradigm for Humanity, and Goddess Fae will reign as Mistress of Ceremonies.

by Dr. Susan Block It’s Easter Eve in Bonoboville and all the bunnies and bonobos are busting out like spring, rocking to the Res-ERECTION of The DTEASE, glam punk sex-rock Santa Barbara-based band extraordinaire, fronted by that dashing guitar-smashing Jesus/Bacchus of the sharkskin suit and the dirty mattress, Wilson Gil, and also featuring those sensationally sexy, funny and fashion-forward Unlicensed Professionals, aka “The DTeasers,” punk rock Renaissance women Catherine Imperio and Samantha Fairley, winners of 2015 SUZY Awards for “Best Funny Faces” (Sam) and “Most Artistic Anus” (Cate). The DTease first wowed DrSuzy.Tv back in 2012 in Stagebrother and the DTease, winning them a 2012 SUZY Award for “Sexiest Musical Performance.” They more than res-ERECT that excitement on this bunny-hopping holiday DrSuzy.Tv show with showstoppers like “Insurgent,” “Big Girl Panties,” “A Little Bi,” “Cum Again,” and their signature feather-shower climax, “Dirty Mattress.”

by Dr. Susan Block It’s a Happy #GreenBirthday for sparkling Speakeasy Star, Dayton Rains—webcam, sext and phone therapist with the Institute, associate producer for DrSuzy.Tv, not to mention a real, award-winning porn star. It’s also a great visual treat for the rest of us, partly because Dayton celebrates much of her birthday in her “birthday suit.” As hard-working, giving and passionate about the Bonobo Way as she is vivacious, curvaceous, funny and sexy, Dayton—and her adorable pair of canine companions—have captured the hearts (and gonads) of Bonoboville, so her birthday is cause for great celebration. Looking radiant in an ecosexy #GreenBirthday bra, FreeOnes G-string, high heels and a St. Paddy’s star on her head that looks like a leprechaun crown, the Birthday Gal soon strips down to her Birthday Suit, performing backbends and other feats of youthful flexibility and timeless sexiness.

by Dr. Susan Block You are getting sleepy…. Escape the mass hypnosis of the Trump rally, stirring the mob to brutal mayhem, and experience its bonoboësque alter ego, erotic hypnotherapy, helping you to relax, evolve and discover greater heights of pleasure, arousal and harmony with the world. There are many sides to hypnosis—good, evil, erotic and political—and this show explores them all . We also continue Women’s History Month with a nod to Victoria Woodhull, along with a hat tip to the Woodhull Freedom Foundation, now fighting for our rights to practice consensual BDSM, recently threatened by a Virginia federal court ruling. Woodhull herself was a great freedom fighter, a maverick and a very successful businesswoman who ran for President at a time when American women didn’t even have the right to vote.

Size Matters in Politics and in Sex By Dr. Susan Block It’s ironic, or perhaps it’s utterly fitting, that we kick off Women’s History (Herstory?) Month 2016 with an impassioned national conversation about male members. Yes, the Grand Old Party’s mighty contenders have taken the U.S. presidential debate below the belt, contesting penis size or, more specifically, hand size, which is said to be correlated to penis size, though scientific studies of this anatomical urban legend say otherwise.

by Dr. Susan Block In between clinical sessions, art films, Memory Foam orgasms and my Bonobo Way talk at UC Berkeley’s 5th International Conference on the Future of Monogamy & Nonmonogamy, I chanced to meet a sweet couple, Dwayne Mooney and Billie Jordan, who happen to be Bravo TV’s poster pair for polyamory, and lo and behold, within a week, here they are in Bonoboville.

by Dr. Susan Block It’s a whip-cracking, she-wolf-howling, floggerific Lupercalia to whip all other Lupercalias’ horny, heart-shaped butts into shape. Date-wise, we’re actually a tad late for the Lupercal. That’s because Capt’n Max and I were up at UC Berkeley for Valentine’s Day (the sanitized, Catholicized, Hallmark remake of Lupercalia), sharing our Gospel of the Love Apes on the high holiday of love at the heart (or maybe the spleen) of the love revolution in beautiful liberal Bezerkeley. My talk went great (blog, video and pix coming soon!), and we had a deliciously romantic and orgasmic Valentine weekend, plus there was even a Lupercalia party; it seems like everyone and their pagan grandma is going Lupey for Lupercalia these Februaries. Though this Berkeley Lupercalia was basically just a cake and cocktails, featuring some lovely Lupercalian Berkeleyans, but no flogging or even a light spanking. No offense to the horny and Lupey of Berkeley, but we just had to come back to Bonoboville to whip it good.

by Dr. Susan Block It’s the eve of the Chinese New Year, and we’re having a lovely sushi dinner on DrSuzy.Tv. Actually, the dinner—fine vegan sushi from Ralph’s—isn’t nearly as lovely as the dinner plate: a beautiful naked woman. And yes, sushi is Japanese, but it is said to have been invented in Southeast Asia, migrating through South China before reaching Japan where it was recreated by Chef Hanaya Yohei as the nineteenth century’s version of Tokyo Fast Food. History or mystery, ringing in the New Year of the Monkey (we’re always up for a good celebration) with a bonoboësque banquet of seaweed, cucumber, carrot, ginger, avocado, wasabi and white rice decorating the clean clear skin of a beautiful naked woman feels festive, if not strictly authentic.

Forget Christian Grey in 50 Shades—he’s just a fantasy and a badly written one at that. My first featured guest lives a life that others only fantasize about, but John Gray is a very real “Mr. Gray,” as well as the founder, prime mover, shaker and CEO of the largest, most luxurious and highly-rated chain of “gentlemen’s clubs” in the world—now boasting 74 locations and counting—the elegant, upscale, naughty-naughty but very nice and ultra-successful Spearmint Rhino.

by Dr. Susan Block Still nursing our New Year’s hangovers here in Bonoboville, we stumble into 2016 with a nostalgic look back at some of the wonders of 2015 and the fabulous Dr. Susan Block Show guests who made it interesting, inspirational and orgasmic. Yes, indeed, Brothers and Sisters, Lovers and Sinners, it’s the fourth annual DrSusanBlock.Tv awards, a.k.a., “The SUZYs,” paying tribute to “excellence in broadcast artistry and exhibitionism,” venerating the pursuit and cultivation of peace through pleasure; better sex education; higher quality sexuality research; more interesting and entertaining porn; more responsible BDSM; a more sex-positive, anti-War, female-empowered ethos and more bonoboësque Weapons of Mass Seduction.

By Dr. Susan Block Bonoboville sparkles with the spirit of Xmas, the heat of Sexmas, the wonders of Winter Solstice and the carnivalesque carnalities and unexpected upheavals of Saturnalia, as friends, lovers, sexperts and sexpots gather together to share stimulating ideas, good vibes, deep emotions and delicious bodies, celebrating the erotic fecundity of life in the dead of winter. Not that the chilly season ever gets too harsh in sunny So Cal, but still, Baby It’s Cold Outside!

Capt’n Max, a.k.a., Pr. Maximillian R. Leblovic di Lobkowicz di Filangieri, was born at the Vatican Hospital in Rome, on November 8th 1943. At the tender age of seven, he and a horde of other deposed royal families of Europe set sail on a big beautiful ship, eventually arriving in the Great Promised Land of Montclair, New Jersey. There he grew up to be a truly revolutionary publisher of such titles as The LA Star, Love Magazine, Hate, God, Finger, Meetings with Remarkable People, The Brentwood Bla Bla, Beverly Hills, the Magazine and many more, pioneering the first “reader-written” media which exploded in the Internet Age, becoming the behemoth we now call “social media.”

By Dr. Susan Block As nights grow long from the witch’s hex, let us enter the realm of scary sex… whereupon our congregation of bonobo brothers & sisters is transformed into a convocation of sexy witches and hot bitches, tranced-out tramps and curvaceous vamps, all of us gathered together in the Womb Room for the magical, orgasmical, singing, dancing, delightfully debauched, vibrating, broom-flying, Sybian-riding screaming climaxXx of Kink Month 2015 and another high-flying, frighteningly hot Halloweeeeeen in BOOnoBOOville.

Two great bonoboësque ladies, world-class stars of kink and sex education, grace my broadcast bed for Kink Month IV, a festival of floggers and books—for reading and spanking. I open the show riding my Magic Dildonic Vibrating Broom, flying on a kinky stream of Halloween poetry into a Womb Room packed with apprentices of pleasure. The gentle leader of these aspiring “sex coaches” is my first guest, master sex coach, clinical sexologist, SexCoachU.com co-founder and author of The Art of Sex Coaching, Dr. Patti Britton. In the midst of teaching one of her “SAR” (Sexual Attitude Reassessment & Restructuring) weekend groups, the indefatigable Dr. Patti brings her charming students to Bonoboville to expand their erotic horizons and celebrate Kink Month with the kinksters.

by Dr. Susan Block Brothers & Sisters, Lovers & Sinners, Witches & Bitches, Tramps & Vamps… as nights grow long, Halloween draws nigh and “Kink Month” hits the midway spot, gather ye into the Womb Room Speakeasy Cathedral for an old-time evangelical revival meeting, bonobo-style, featuring a Pentecostal preacher, two porn stars, a sweetly sadistic mistress, a sagacious sex therapist and a snake (Eve) in the Garden of BonoBOOville.

by Dr. Susan Block Happy Kink Month! Did you know that October is International Kink Month? Neither did I, until yesterday when Hercules Liotard’s post popped up on my timeline. Apparently, just as Good Vibrations declared May to be Masturbation Month, Stockroom has designated October as “Kink Month,” encouraging kinksters in and out of closets around the globe to let their freak flags fly (an aspect of releasing your inner bonobo)! It’s all in the Halloween holiday spirit of revelry, roleplay, masquerade, adventure, playing with fear as an aphrodisiac, and of course, buying lots of kinky paddles, padlocks and piggie hoods from Stockroom.

by Dr. Susan Block It’s Supermoon Eve, just before the total lunar eclipse, when Bonoboville welcomes a different kind of luminosity into the Womb Room, a human beacon of light illuminating peace through pleasure on Earth. Two visionary leaders of the “healing biotope,” TAMERA, an extraordinary human community, grace my broadcast bed, sharing their narratives and their wisdom—bright and globular as this first Fall full moon—and even partaking in a lusty round of Bonoboville Communion. Now that’s communal ecstasy with a twist of ecosexuality and a powerful moonshine chaser. Forged in the fire of anti-war fervor and the sexual revolution, the “village” of Tamera was conceived in Germany in 1978 and founded in southern Portugal in 1995 on principles of peace, trust, ecology and “free love.” Today 170 people live, love and work in Tamera, connected with its growing international network and base stations in Israel-Palestine, Colombia, Brazil, Kenya and other countries, each an interconnected part of Terra Nova, the global platform for their mission of peace.

by Dr. Susan Block It’s the cusp of the Fall Equinox, but it still feels like the Bonobo Summer of Love here in the Womb Room, and oh my goddesses, is it hot… in more ways than one. My first featured guest is Jeanie Marie, adult star, budding film director and Jack the Zipper protégé. Decked out for her first trip to Bonoboville, Jeanie takes the stage in shiny black patent Christian Louboutin peep-toe stiletto high heels with signature crimson-lacquered “Sammy Red-Bottoms,” a little black couture dress trimmed in glamorous ostrich feathers and artfully applied crimson glitter lipstick with matching eye shadow, plus more sparkles spangling her high cheekbones. More than a fashion plate, Jeanie’s artistic passion is to create films that convey the beauty of female sexuality, and we give her one of our telltale white envelopes containing a secret award from the Bonobo Way Female Empowerment Outreach Project, made possible in this auspicious Year of the Bonobo by an anonymous Bonobo Way reader and philanthropist.

by Dr. Susan Block How can you enjoy a good book? Let me count the ways… You can read it, study its poetry or prose, savor its style, explore its meaning, laugh at its jokes, learn from its lessons, put it in a library, discuss it with fellow readers, lend it out to friends, sell it, review it on Amazon, tweet about it, give it as a gift, drop it like a bomb (“shock & awe” with no casualties) or… you could use a book as a spanking paddle to whack a birthday girl’s bottom into a brand spanking new year of life on Earth which also happens to be a spanking new start to the Jewish new year, a.k.a. “Rosh Hashanah.” And Amen and Awomen to all that. Indeed, as we “Fall” into The Bonobo Way, we can see that one of the great literary discoveries of The Dr. Susan Block Show in the Year of the Bonobo (2015) is the remarkably sound spanking capabilities of a good solid print edition. This revelation has made “book-spankings” almost as popular here in Bonoboville as Sybian rides, flogging and Hitachi. On this show, a book-spanking brings together authors, porn stars and a birthday girl’s beautiful bottom in a way that gives peace-through-pleasure to all… as well as a lesson learned

by Dr. Susan Block Labor Day becomes “Labia Day” on DrSuzy.Tv, broadcasting live from Bonoboville on the first Saturday night of September. Our first Labia Day, a.k.a., #LabiaDay, celebration features the delightful labia-lapping Dayton Rains showing off her own world-famous labia in multiple positions and configurations, expertly licking my lucky labia and, in that great U.S. presidential intern tradition, smoking a cigar through her labia, as well as instigating a small but sassy Labia Day Movement right here in the Womb Room studio—power to the pornstars! Back to Labor Day (for just a moment), which I’ve always found to be a bittersweet occasion. Like any public holiday, it’s as good an excuse as any to break out the booze and BBQs, but tragically, it also marks the end of summer vacation, with “labor,” a.k.a., school, work and winter, looming ominously ahead. Moreover, the whole “labor” theme never seems to be a genuine celebration of the people, the real workers, or the 99%. It’s more of a paltry pacifier from the 1%–the owners, Mafioso union bosses, greedy oligarchs and CEOs—one measly Monday where we theoretically don’t have to labor for The Man, but are expected to consume high-calorie processed foods from company stores like Walmart and Target, watch military-style parades and endure boring, hypocritical speeches.

by Dr. Susan Block “Poly on Wry” is a tasty triple-decker sandwich of polyamorous possibilities, blended households, zesty triads, alphabetized polycules (poly/molecules), designer relationships (with a hat tip to Ken Haslam), open marriages, bonoboësque friends-with-benefits, bachelors-with-girlfriends, girlfriends-with-dating-contests, Dominant/submissive partnerships, kinky alliances, spicy swing parties and other non-conventional sexual arrangements.

In a way, Bonoboville, like life itself, is always a “carnal carnival,” but for this bonobo-and-bozo-friendly episode of The Dr. Susan Block Show, that’s the theme. Goth comedian Dark Mark is leaving LA’s sunshine for New Orleans’ mausoleums, and his virgin appearance on DrSuzy.Tv also serves as a freaky farewell to his LA friends and lovers. Amongst the entourage are several sexy ladies, one of whom could be the demented love child of Marilyn Monroe and Patch Adams, aptly named Clownalyn Monroe. Another is voluptuous burlesque Domme and “Pussy Bang-Bang” producer, Josi Kat, also co-host of Dark Mark’s ghoulish comedy talk show.

It’s Sex at Dawn co-author Dr. Christopher Ryan’s fourth sapiosexually stimulating guest appearance on The Dr. Susan Block Show in exactly five years. Since our first August, 2010 phoner (which he called, in his book’s inscription, “the best interview of all time”) and his first in-studio visit later that year and appearance #3, Sex at Dawn has become not *just* a New York Times best-seller translated into 20 different languages, but a beloved, oft-quoted Bible for a new generation of sex revolutionaries, and we’re proud to have been one of the very first to acknowledge Sex at Dawn’s genius back in the summer of 2010. Flash forward five years later, and here we are celebrating the book’s success with a Womb Room packed with fans and bonoboesque feelings. It’s actually a full “Sex at Dawn Day” for me, commencing with a little marital sex at dawn—the Capt’n and I getting hot just anticipating another sexy night in Bonoboville—and it just gets hotter from there. In fact, by the time Chris gets here to interview me about The Bonobo Way for his podcast “Tangentially Speaking,” it’s sweltering in the shade. Then we have to turn off the noisy air-conditioning to do the interview.

by Dr. Susan Block Freedom is the greatest aphrodisiac, but restraint is a close second. It’s one of the many ironies of sex that some of the freest people get off on giving up their freedom—consensually, of course. They may be turned on by being “forced” to experience things that they really want but don’t feel free to receive unless they’re restrained. They may be aroused by struggling against the restraints or surrendering as they enter “sub space.” This is one of the bedrock principles of BDSM. Another principle is theater. BDSM (Bondage & Discipline, Dominance & Submission, Sado-Masochism) is dramatic, and I don’t mean Fifty Shades of Holy Crap drama; I mean the living theater of intimate power exchange, the potent poetry of mixing pleasure with pain as you play—with an audience. This show’s guests of honor are masters of BDSM play. So it’s natural that they’re now creating “plays,” i.e., theatrical entertainments spotlighting the drama of BDSM, engaging in themes of passion (the latin passio means “to suffer”), intimacy, discovery, healing, consensuality and control.

Way back in the 20th century, when being called a “slut” was almost always a slur, the authors of a (then) brand new book that reclaimed this scornful insult as “a term of approval, even endearment,” came on my show. We had a blast chatting about the nature of sex and the future of love, then played in the after-party. The book was called The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities (1997), and it became the sex-positive, poly-friendly manifesto of consensual erotic adventure for a new generation of sexual pleasure seekers with a spiritual conscience—a desire to do good as well as feel good, sometimes even at the same time! Now on this live broadcast, one of the co-authors, Janet W. Hardy, is back on DrSuzy.Tv, talking about the new and improved edition of this polyamory Bible, which includes exercises, updates and a new subtitle: The Ethical Slut: A Practical Guide to Polyamory, Open Relationships & Other Adventures (2009). Janet—who had gone by her pseudonym Catherine A. Liszt on the first edition of The Ethical Slut, written with Dossie Easton—is coming to UCLA this Saturday for Sex-Positive World’s special event, “Sexual Health Series Kick Off: Redefining Sexuality for the 21st Century.”

by Dr. Susan Block It’s Summer Solstice Eve, the night before the longest day of the year, when the golden sun shines longest upon the Northern Hemisphere, and my featured guest is one of the sunniest personalities in porn: Nina Hartley. From her golden halo of blonde hair to her signature, round, bouncy butt, not to mention her beaming smile, bright repartee and radiant sex-positivity, Nina shines like the summer sun, so it’s no wonder she lights up this show with fun and sexual wisdom. On a mission to promote the Woodhull Sexual Freedom Alliance, which is on a mission to “affirm sexual freedom as a fundamental human right” Nina is accompanied by fellow Woodhull board member (and former Young Republican), Danny O’Neill. They’re excited about Woodhull’s upcoming “Summit,” to be held August 14-17, 2015 in Alexandria, Virginia, a long, lusty, sapiosexual weekend of discussions, seminars, networking events, trainings, parties and, of course, orgies (what’s sexual freedom without orgies?)—like last year, only bigger, better and more orgiastic, right by our nation’s capital.      

by Dr. Susan Block This very special DrSuzy.Tv show launches the widely anticipated new collaborative manifesto for the burgeoning ecosexual movement, Ecosexuality: When Nature Inspires the Arts of Love. Like the book itself, the show is a sumptuous feast of inspirational stories and challenging ideas about love, ecology, sex and sustainability—topped off (in the case of the show) with a delicious dessert of “Bonoboville Communion,” #FreetheNipple fun and an orgasmic after-party Sybian ride. My featured guest in-studio is Ecosexuality’s co-editor, the dazzling Dr. SerenaGaia Anderlini D’onofrio, a distinguished professor of humanities at the University of Puerto Rico and a pioneer with this rapidly growing worldwide movement connecting art, eroticism and environmental activism in myriad ways—both personal and political. In the first part of the program, Dr. SerenaGaia discusses the work, philosophies and fertile collaborations that led to the book’s creation. Then the esteemed professor delights us with how physically open she is—unlike so many other, stuffier academics who have promoted books on my broadcast bed—as she generously and joyously participates in our nipple-freeing rites and bonoboësque pleasures.

by Dr. Susan Block As the clothes come off in Bonoboville, the Confederate flag comes down in South Carolina, and the sweet sounds of the winsome Luzers greet the Bonobo Summer of Love. Toe-tapping Norwegian pop rock with a Hasidic twang, big fake boobs and pierced labia, Cold Cock and Cosby-itis… this show is eclectic with a capital Eeeee! It’s the kind of live broadcast that brings people together from all walks of life, setting The Dr. Susan Block Show apart from all the other shows and making it kind of uncategorizable. On the other hand, it’s just a 21st century spin on old-time Commedia: live music, burlesque and a bit of behind-the-scenes sturm und drang with a bonoboësque twang. Our very special musical guests are The Luzers in their virgin appearance in Bonoboville and, indeed, all of America. Named for the band’s lead singer who also happens to be a recurring guest on DrSuzy.Tv, Mr. Luzer Twersky, the Luzers are the brainchild of the merry, mutton-chopped, musical Mad Hatter of Bergen, Norway, Hans Petter Gundersen, a.k.a. “H.P.” In addition to being LA’s most up-and-coming ex-Hasidic Jew, winner of two “Best Actor” awards for his performance in Félix & Meira and a recurring player on Amazon’s hit series Transparent, Luzer is also the unofficial Bonoboville chauffeur which is why parts of this show feel like a performance at a big family dinner, if your family gathers around for Cold Cock and a striptease. Listen to the archive to hear the romantic story of Luzer and Hans’ meeting at the Laurel Canyon Country Store.

Fireworks Not Bombs! That’s our bonobo battle cry for the 4th of July. With America’s 239th birthday falling on a Saturday night, we take DrSuzy.Tv up to the Villa Bonobo roof, where I commemorate the occasion by lighting a sparkling birthday “candle” nestled between Biz Bonobo’s beautiful bodacious butt cheeks, as fireworks from the surrounding beaches, villages and wharves of West LA shimmer and explode all around us. Fireworks are orgasms for the eyes. They dazzle, pulsate, pop and go “bang,” eliciting “oohs,” “ahhs” and shrieks of joy. Our polluted city skies may be shorn of stars, but we can light up the night with the visual delight of human-made star bursts and galactic displays.

Having just survived an evil showerhead’s precipitous fall on my poor defenseless big toe, leaving me partially immobilized, unable to even walk (at least not in my skyscraper heels), I commence this show as a shoeless damsel-in-distress desperately seeking a superhero to save me from… another falling showerhead? A terrorist attack? Antonin Scalia’s toxic sour grapes? Whatever the villain, my superhero is here and her name is Ari Dee, a stunning 5’8” provocateur, webcam performance artist and superhero extraordinaire. All dressed up as one of her favorite Comicon personas, Robin the Boy Wonder (Batman’s sidekick and Bruce Wayne’s not-so-secret gay lover), Ari flies into my broadcast bed and, unleashing her potent Weapons of Mass Seduction, saves me from 90 minutes of fussing over my fucked up foot. Instead we chat about her love of comics, cosplay, growing up in Oklahoma, her pansexuality and her fans’ fetishes (more on that in a minute), leading up to a lusty boobalicious round of Bonoboville Communion and Ari’s virgin Sybian ride!

by Dr. Susan Block It’s Summer Solstice Eve, the night before the longest day of the year, when the golden sun shines longest upon the Northern Hemisphere, and my featured guest is one of the sunniest personalities in porn: Nina Hartley. From her golden halo of blonde hair to her signature, round, bouncy butt, not to mention her beaming smile, bright repartee and radiant sex-positivity, Nina shines like the summer sun, so it’s no wonder she lights up this show with fun and sexual wisdom.

By Dr. Susan Block This very special DrSuzy.Tv show launches the widely anticipated new collaborative manifesto for the burgeoning ecosexual movement, Ecosexuality: When Nature Inspires the Arts of Love. Like the book itself, the show is a sumptuous feast of inspirational stories and challenging ideas about love, ecology, sex and sustainability—topped off (in the case of the show) with a delicious dessert of “Bonoboville Communion,” #FreetheNipple fun and an orgasmic after-party Sybian ride. My featured guest in-studio is Ecosexuality’s co-editor, the dazzling Dr. SerenaGaia Anderlini D’onofrio, a distinguished professor of humanities at the University of Puerto Rico and a pioneer with this rapidly growing worldwide movement connecting art, eroticism and environmental activism in myriad ways—both personal and political. In the first part of the program, Dr. SerenaGaia discusses the work, philosophies and fertile collaborations that led to the book’s creation. Then the esteemed professor delights us with how physically open she is—unlike so many other, stuffier academics who have promoted books on my broadcast bed—as she generously and joyously participates in our nipple-freeing rites and bonoboësque pleasures.

Beautiful inside-and-out Penthouse Pet of the Year 2015 Layla Sin wows The Dr. Susan Block Show with her sparkling charm, all-natural body and electrifying erotic energy. Watch this heavenly human animal “go bonobos” in bed with Dr. Suzy, sharing sloppy Bonoboville Communions and riding the Hitachi-powered Mad X Bike in a rousing climax to Masturbation Month. Listen to Layla read from Penthouse Variations on Oral: Erotic Stories of Going Down (Cleis Press), and then watch her and Dr. Suzy go down on each other. Her Pet of the Year issue is called “The Pursuit of Perfection,” and in this show, Layla Sin’s exquisite erotic “perfection” is pursued, captured and displayed for your pleasure, from her gorgeous head to her pretty French-pedicured feet.

By Dr. Susan Block It’s our 23rd year of lawfully wedded love and lust, and Capt’n Max and I start the celebration early, just the two of us “partying like bonobos” in bed, climaxing in each other’s arms, the arms we’ve gotten to know so well but, happily, never tired of, lo these 23+ years. Wild and kinky as we are, we’re also very much married, sharing and being “witnesses” to each other’s lives, creating and constantly recreating the romance that just seems to deepen and grow between us as we age. But no couple is an island. Certainly, we aren’t! As much as we cherish our two-way intimacy, we need our Bonoboville community to keep us from going insane or letting our monogamy turn to monotony. One reason our “monogamish” (with a hat tip to Dan Savage and the forthcoming Tao Ruspoli film of that name) marriage seems to work is that we share our love, lust and romance with our Bonoboville of friends, lovers and interesting strangers.

By Dr Susan Block “ZORTHIAN: Art & Times" is a short film by Dr. Susan Block about one of the great artists of our times: Colonel Jirayr H. Zorthian. It weaves Block’s intimate interviews with Zorthian and his luminous wife Dabney with footage of his art, including his erotic masterpieces, his tales…

It’s another rollicking Last Supper Seder on DrSuzy.Tv, as we toast and taste the convergence of Easter Eve and the second night of Passover. Apologies to our Muslim brothers and sisters for not also blasphemously celebrating an Islamic Spring holiday, but the only one we know of is Persian New Year, and we already profaned that one on the Bonobo Spring Equinox. We do stray from monotheism with a tip of our shtreimel to the ancient Greek “Resurrection of Persephone,” the Spring rebirth of the Holy Daughter who soars up from the depths of Hell to the open arms of her Mother Demeter who is so delighted to see the Fruit of Her Loins that She showers the world in Spring. This “myth” happens to precede the Easter Resurrection of Jesus, the Son ascending to his Holy Father in Heaven, by several hundred years. And then, there’s the res-Erection of Dionysus who could be Christ’s twin brother. Yes indeed, Brothers and Sisters, in this 90-minute Bonoboville “Family” Easter/Pesach Seder/Egging we manage to offend every major monotheistic religion and a few of the pagan ones, so if you’re religiously thin-skinned, do not watch, listen to or get anywhere near this show.

by Dr. Susan Block Springing forward into Daylight Savings Time (though it feels like we’re losing time) with The Bonobo Spring on the horizon, we get up-close and personal about life, love, bonobos, religion, revolution and camming with three hot cam girls and a guy. Then a little heartfelt booby-licking Bonoboville Communion, foot fetish play, snake play, striptease, topless hula-hooping, and we’re off and orgasming on a wild Sybian ride with Hitachi and human “attachments.”

From stimulating “Casual Sex” conversation to a marvelous demonstration of female ejaculation, this star-studded bonoboësque DrSuzy.Tv show brings together great performers and thinkers, professors and porn stars, sexpots and scholars, from Macedonia to Texas and Egypt to LA, to discuss, express, explore and explode with 50,000 shades of the poly-colored rainbow of human sexuality and (once again) soak my bed in Holy Water!

It was thus that I found myself engaged in a warm, convivial chat about true love, deep faith and lasting marriage with one of the sunny icons of my long-lost youth, “The Love Boat” captain himself, Gavin MacLeod, now a Princess Cruises ambassador, devout Christian, loving husband of his wife Patti for almost 40 years, and the author of This Is Your Captain Speaking: My Fantastic Voyage through Hollywood, Faith & Life. Gavin and I had corresponded via Twitter the day before, so I knew he wanted to chat and, true to his “Love Boat” character (Captain Merrill Stubbing), he enthusiastically complimented me on my “Marilyn” skirt and Charo-like top, gave me a big avuncular hug and kiss on the cheek as he told me how Jesus saved his marriage. When I later introduced him to my own captain and husband of 22 years, Capt’n Max (another “love legend” as publisher of the iconic Love Magazine “where fantasy and reality meet”), he welcomed me back like an old cruise ship mate. No wonder Gavin MacLeod’s a legend. What a charmer.