I’m bound for DomCon LA 2017! And there’s a lot to do to get ready: Packing latex, canes, dildos, books! Spoiler alert: This is an often-interrupted rehearsal for my talk on The Bonobo Way: FemDoms of the Wild. The real thing (no fake news!) will be at the Hilton LAX this Saturday, May 20 at High Noon. Come one, Come all or just Come (Merry Masturbation Month)!

by Dr. Susan Block It’s our last live DrSuzy.Tv broadcast of 2017, a year that was awesome and awful, terrific and terrible—or Trumpible, if you will, since much of the terror was caused by the Trumpus. Whether you loved or hated it, this year is in the rear (for my full year-in-review and unadulterated thoughts on the unbonobo presidunce and erotic resistance, see #GoBonobos in 2018, also in Counterpunch). Thus, with a fond farewell to this year’s 45 sensational shows, a Merry New Year and a very Happy Nude Rear to all, we present the 2017 SUZY awards.

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!