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Pre-Lupercalia Warm-Up on DrSuzy.Tv this Saturday Comments Off on Pre-Lupercalia Warm-Up on DrSuzy.Tv this Saturday

This Saturday night, February 4th, The Dr. Susan Block Show will hold a pre-LUPERCALIA warm-up. Joining international sexologist and Bonobo Way author Dr. Susan Block, and Capt’n Max this Saturday will be pro BDSM player and Fantasy Wrestler Ms. Joy Luck of Sanctuary Studios LAX, Sir Pent and his slavegirls Fire and Princess + Carmina Formosa’sThe Kinkster.” Ikkor the Wolf, Gypsy Bonobo and Jacquie Blu, + live-Tweeting by Del Rey via @RadioSUZY1. Breaking News: the Fabulous, Floggerific Goddess Phoenix will join us!

Click Here to RSVP to attend this show in the “Speakeasy” studio audience this Saturday, or call 626.461.5950 (you can call anytime; someone is always here). Studio doors open at 9:30 pm. Studio Members FREE. Membership Has Its Pleasures.

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The Dr. Susan Block Show is produced by The Dr. Susan Block Institute for the Erotic Arts & Sciences, an international center for sexual expression, therapy and education, based in LA, founded in 1991 by Susan M. Block, PhD, world-renowned Yale-educated sexologist, best-selling author and host of HBO specials. The Institute’s mission is to help individuals, couples and communities enhance their sexuality and improve their lives based upon Dr. Block’s philosophy of Ethical Hedonism and The Bonobo Way of Peace through Pleasure. A portion of all proceeds goes to help save the highly endangered “make love not war” bonobos from extinction in the Congo and to promote the Bonobo Way around the world.

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“Ménage à Trois” on DrSuzy.Tv this Saturday Comments Off on “Ménage à Trois” on DrSuzy.Tv this Saturday

This Saturday night, January 28th, The Dr. Susan Block Show will explore the theater of threesomes. Joining international sexologist and Bonobo Way author Dr. Susan Block, and Capt’n Max this Saturday will be the cast of Ménage à Trois, an erotic trilogy by Tuesday Conner, featuring members of the cast, including Twin Butterfly, Abdul, Danilo Baba, The ORACLE, Indigo Black, Orpheus Black and our beloved Ikkor the Wolf, winner of the SUZY award 2016 for "Sexiest Rapper," as well as "Drag Queen" Uber driver Erika Simone, Gypsy Bonobo and Jacquie Blu + live-Tweeting by Del Rey via @RadioSUZY1.

We'll also celebrate the Chinese New Year of the Rooster, aka "The Cock" (see Dr. Block's "#GoBonobos in 2017: Happy Year of the Cock," also in Counterpunch, for more about that), and we will talk about the relationship between "crowd size" (Trump's inauguration vs. Women's March) and cock size, plus.... surprises!

Click Here to RSVP to attend this show in the “Speakeasy” studio audience this Saturday, or call 626.461.5950 (you can call anytime; someone is always here). Studio doors open at 9:30 pm. Studio Members FREE. Membership Has Its Pleasures.

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Anti-Inaugural Circus on “The Greatest Sexuality Show on Earth,” The Dr. Susan Block Show, THIS Saturday! Comments Off on Anti-Inaugural Circus on “The Greatest Sexuality Show on Earth,” The Dr. Susan Block Show, THIS Saturday!

This Saturday night, January 21st, The Dr. Susan Block Show will hold an Anti-Inaugural Circus. After over 125 years, Ringling Bros and Barnum and Bailey Circus, "The Greatest Show on Earth," is closing, but the "The Greatest Sexuality Show on Earth," The Dr. Susan Block Show, now going into its 33rd great year, is still going strong. Of course, the circus that is just now "coming to town" is the new Trump Administration, and what they appear poised to do to the environment, including many endangered species, will make the Ringling Bros. look like PETA. 

Joining international sexologist and Bonobo Way author Dr. Susan Block, and Capt’n Max this Saturday under the "Big Top" of the Womb Room will be a veritable circus of exciting mistresses and submissives, artists and exhibitionists, U.S. Presidential candidates and wild human animals. In the first ring will be roleplay fetish specialist and human animal trainer Madame Margherite and "Monkey" Andres Rey Solorzano, winners of the 2016 SUZY Award for "Best Animal Act," plus an Elephant and a Unicorn who will perform circus tricks. In the next ring will be U.S. Presidential Candidates Mistress Tara Indiana, winner of the 2016 SUZY Award for "Best Presidential Candidate," and Jeffrey Vallance, winner of "Funniest U.S. Presidential Candidate," weighing in on the Inaugural Circus. In the third ring will be artist/Mistresses Sheree Rose ("Best Blast from the Past" winner) & Rhiannon Aarons ("Best Boobie Cake Plate" winner),  authors of the soon-to-be-released Book of Medicine.  Also joining us will be DrSuzy.Tv virgin and Dominion submissive Bambi Leigh + Gypsy Bonobo and Jacquie Bl Live-Tweeting by Del Rey @RadioSUZY1

No doubt, our entertainment will be more A-List than Trump's!

Click Here to RSVP to attend this show in the “Speakeasy” studio audience this Saturday, or call 626.461.5950 (you can call anytime; someone is always here). Studio doors open at 9:30 pm. Studio Members FREE. Membership Has Its Pleasures.

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New Year’s Eve with Dr. Suzy & a Galaxy of Stars! RSVP Now! Comments Off on New Year’s Eve with Dr. Suzy & a Galaxy of Stars! RSVP Now!

Hear Ye, Here Ye: The End Is Near…

Have You Made Your Reservations for a REALLY Happy New Year?

Come Mingle & More with Porn Stars, Artists, Millionaires, Models, Kinksters, Singers, Swingers, Dommes, Doms & Subbies, the Hottest Couples in Town & the Coolest Singles Around + the Über-Amazing Bonoboville Staff!

@ Dr. Suzy’s NEW YEAR’S EVE Bacchanalia

Join international sexologist and Bonobo Way author Dr. Susan Block, Capt’n Max and the fabulous Goddess Phoenix, Mistress Tara Indiana, Mistress Porcelain Midnight, Goddess Suzina, Loni LegendMadame Margherite &"Monkey" Andres Rey Solorzano, Audus IsaiahMadam Jacqueline DuMonde, Ikkor the Wolf, Daniel Watts, Chef Be*LiVE, Jay TorikoDirge Magazine's Renée Asher Pickup, Gypsy Bonobo, Paniscus Brecht & Jacquie Blu. Live-Tweeting by Del Rey @RadioSUZY1

Free Champagne, Free Drinks, Free Aphrodisiacs, Free Hors D'Oeuvres, Free Condoms, Free Sybian Rides, Free Catalysts to Convivial Debauchery + Free Parking!

Featuring an Exotic Erotic LiVE Broadcast of The Dr. Susan Block Show with Magical Midnight Countdown to Usher in 2017!

Where Else But @ the One & Only Bonoboville LAX?

Just $100 per couple includes everything. No hidden charges for drinks, parking or anything!

Studio Members FREE. Membership Has Its Pleasures.

Compare with other NYE celebrations & you'll see we have the BEST DEAL for THE MOST FUN in LA! Can’t do the math? Let our friendly 24/7 receptionists help you :) Call 626-461-5950

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RSVP NOW for our sake & yours--donation prices go up & up after 12/23/11!

Doors open 9:30pm and we’ll go ‘til... ?

Dr. Suzy’s NYE in Bonoboville 2017 is a fundraising event for the highly endangered “make love not war” bonobos and the always endangered Bonoboville. Party for a good cause: The Bonobo Way of Peace through Pleasure into 2017 & way beyond!

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Xmas Eve & Hanukkah (1st Nite) in Bonoboville Comments Off on Xmas Eve & Hanukkah (1st Nite) in Bonoboville

This Saturday night, December 24th, The Dr. Susan Block Show will celebrate Xmas Eve and the First Night of Hanukkah, as well as Muhammed's Birthday, Pancha Ganapati (Hindu), Bodhi Day and the Birthday of the Sun. No "outside" guests for this very special, intimate winter holiday show filled with Xmas Mistletoe, Hanukkah Hot Wax, Erotic Confession and Bonoboville Communion. Joining international sexologist and Bonobo Way author Dr. Susan Block, and Capt’n Max, will be the amazing Daniel Watts & Chef Be*LiVE (performing a very personal rendition of that old standard that's become quite controversial, "Baby, It's Cold Outside), Gypsy Bonobo, Paniscus Brecht, Del Rey Bonobo (all five are therapists with the Block Institute) + Jacquie Blu.

Click Here to RSVP to attend this show in the “Speakeasy” studio audience this Saturday, or call 626.461.5950 (you can call anytime; someone is always here). Studio doors open at 9:30 pm. Studio Members FREE. Membership Has Its Pleasures.

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Naughty Winter Solstice with Elvis in Bonoboville & Happy Birthday Madam RavenRae! Comments Off on Naughty Winter Solstice with Elvis in Bonoboville & Happy Birthday Madam RavenRae!

This Saturday night, December 17th, The Dr. Susan Block Show will celebrate Winter Solstice 2016 with "Elvis" in Bonoboville. Joining international sexologist and Bonobo Way author Dr. Susan Block, and Capt’n Max, will be Elvis Presley tribute artist, Smokey Binion, Jr., plus beautiful and effervescent domina Madam Raven Rae (whose birthday we will be celebrating!), as well as the amazing Daniel Watts, Chef Be*LiVE, Gypsy Bonobo, Paniscus Brecht (all therapists with the Block Institute) + Jacquie Blu - just nominated for a TEAs Award.

A little Solstice history from Dr. Suzy: "Xmas wasn't the first celebration of a December miracle. Winter Solstice or "Sun Birthday" was—and is—when the sun, after being at its lowest, is "born again," as the days begin to get longer. Sex is a vital part of any Winter Solstice celebration worth its egg nog.  To honor the icy season, our polytheistic forbearers would feast and fornicate for days of nonstop bacchanalian orgies that would make Bonnie Rotten pee in her g-string. Over 2000 years before Christianity, Mesopotamia’s Winter Carnaval was a kind of "SeXmas," featuring mummers-style parades with floats carrying scenes of sex among the gods. The Greek Winter Festival honored another populist Son of God with a human mother, who worked miracles, brought forth wine, and was resurrected after death; His name was Dionysus. The Roman Saturnalia, presided over by Old Father Time (a kind of kinky Santa Claus, chortling "Io, io, io!' which is essentially pronounced "Ho, ho, ho!"), included the first Xmas Carols which were truly X-rated, as the carolers (the hoes?) would sing in the nude. To our prehistoric human ancestors, Winter Solstice sex was more than just a personal pleasure or a cool way to keep warm. It was an ecstatic communal coming together, celebrating the erotic fecundity of life in the dead of winter and bringing red-hot "joy to the world" in a season of cold, dark, winter blues."

Click Here to RSVP to attend this show in the “Speakeasy” studio audience this Saturday, or call 626.461.5950 (you can call anytime; someone is always here). Studio doors open at 9:30 pm. Studio Members FREE. Membership Has Its Pleasures.

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Sex-Positive in the Trumpocalypse on DrSuzy.Tv this Saturday with Dirge Magazine’s Renee Asher Pickup, Wry Mantione, Loni Legend & More! Comments Off on Sex-Positive in the Trumpocalypse on DrSuzy.Tv this Saturday with Dirge Magazine’s Renee Asher Pickup, Wry Mantione, Loni Legend & More!

This Saturday night, December 10th, The Dr. Susan Block Show will explore what it means to be "sex-positive" in the impending Trumpocalypse . Joining international sexologist and Bonobo Way author Dr. Susan Block, and Capt’n Max, will be Dirge Magazine senior editor and former sex editor, Renee Asher Pickup, in her first appearance on the show, polyamory and alt relationship educator Wry Mantione, (last seen by DrSuzy.Tv viewers in Poly on Wry), adult performing artist Loni Legend, (most recently on No Prop 60), Carmina Formosa's Bonobo Way-inspired "The Kinkster" as well as in-house Bonoboville staff Gypsy Bonobo, Paniscus Brecht (both therapists with the Block Institute) + Jacquie Blu AND the return of GasMaskGirl with Nicola and Persia!

Click Here to RSVP to attend this show in the “Speakeasy” studio audience this Saturday, or call 626.461.5950 (you can call anytime; someone is always here). Studio doors open at 9:30 pm. Studio Members FREE. Membership Has Its Pleasures.

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Splosh ‘n’ Art with Celebrity Guests this Saturday Night LiVE on DrSuzy.Tv! Comments Off on Splosh ‘n’ Art with Celebrity Guests this Saturday Night LiVE on DrSuzy.Tv!

This Saturday night, December 3rd, The Dr. Susan Block Show will celebrate and explore Splosh 'n' Art, as well as other fetishes, erotic photography, animal play and politics as not-so-usual. Joining international sexologist and Bonobo Way author Dr. Susan Block, and Capt’n Max, will be master celebrity photographer and WIZNU Studio + Gallery director Michael Wisnieux, roleplay fetish specialist Madame Margherite, with "Monkey" Andres Solorzano, spoken word artist & weed advocate Imani Cupe', WIZNU associate director and Citizen LA photo editor Rick Mendoza, singer Jiin Christou, as well as renowned actress Daniele Watts & rawkstar Chef Be*LIVE, Gypsy Bonobo (all three now therapists with the Block Institute) & Jacquie Blu + who knows who or what else might happen on the greatest LIVE sexuality show on Earth?

"Splosh is erotic food play. Most of us grew up being told 'Don't play with your food!' So it's fun, funny, very messy and, for some of us, very sexy to feel free to play with food, dribbling, spraying or rubbing it all over your body or someone else's body, as well as licking it off--eating while eating! For some, splosh can even be a fetish. Some even have sploshgasms," says Dr. Block.who writes more about splosh among humans and bonobos in The Bonobo Way, in addition to penning the definition of "Sexual Fetishes" for the Wiley-Blackwell International Encyclopedia of Human Sexuality.

Click Here to RSVP to attend this show in the “Speakeasy” studio audience this Saturday, or call 626.461.5950 (you can call anytime; someone is always here). Studio doors open at 9:30 pm. Studio Members FREE. Membership Has Its Pleasures.

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SPANKSGIVING 2016 LiVE from Bonoboville on DrSuzy.Tv this Saturday Night: Give Thanks, Then Get Spanked! Comments Off on SPANKSGIVING 2016 LiVE from Bonoboville on DrSuzy.Tv this Saturday Night: Give Thanks, Then Get Spanked!

"On Thanksgiving, let us give thanks... And on Spanksgiving, let us give spanks. And let us practice the Bonobo Way amongst each other. Let us spank away the hate and fear that divides us and find the path of peace through pleasure... with a little spanking.  And let us spank our hands together across a nice willing warm ass (consenting adults only, of course), and let us say Amen and AWOMEN." ~The Irreverend Dr. Susan Block of the Church of Bonoboville

This Saturday night, November 26th, The Dr. Susan Block Show will celebrate SPANKSGIVING, a traditional Bonoboville holiday on the Saturday after Thanksgiving. Joining international sexologist and Bonobo Way author Dr. Susan Block, and Capt’n Max, her co-host and husband of over 24 years, will be first-time guests Mistress Erikka Rijks and King Noire as well as renowned actress Daniele Watts & Chef Be*LIVE, Gypsy Bonobo (all three now therapists with the Block Institute), Jacquie Blu (ass producer of this show) Sarah Bella Bonobo,  Jay Toriko + more TBA. 

Yes indeed, after we get stuffed from both ends on Thursday, it’s time for SPANKSgiving Saturday night with Dr. Suzy (who wrote the definition of "spanking" for the Wiley-Blackwell International Encyclopedia of Human Sexuality) and another yummy, spanking hot, live broadcast of The Dr. Susan Block Show with more sex, fun, wisdom and, of course, erotic politics!

Click Here to RSVP to attend this show in the “Speakeasy” studio audience this Saturday, or call 626.461.5950 (you can call anytime; someone is always here). Studio doors open at 9:30 pm. Studio Members FREE. Membership Has Its Pleasures.

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Gasmaskgirls & Master Roger, Daniele & Be*LiVE, Natasha Juja + more this Saturday on DrSuzy.Tv! Comments Off on Gasmaskgirls & Master Roger, Daniele & Be*LiVE, Natasha Juja + more this Saturday on DrSuzy.Tv!

This Saturday night, November 19th, The Dr. Susan Block Show will continue to process Electoral Dysfunction and the Trumpocalypse Now! reality show in which we all now find ourselves with an eclectic mix of exciting guests. Joining international sexologist and Bonobo Way author Dr. Susan Block, and Capt’n Max, will be first-time guests Gasmaskgirls Sarin ("Considering the projected environmental policies of the impending Trumpocalypse, we'd all better learn to put on Gas Masks," says Dr. Block), and Manny Garcia plus Daniele Watts & Chef Be*LIVE, Natasha Juja, Gypsy (now a therapist with the Block Institute!), Jacquie Blu, Sarah Bella Bonobo + more TBA.

Click Here to RSVP to attend this show in the “Speakeasy” studio audience this Saturday, or call 626.461.5950 (you can call anytime; someone is always here). Studio doors open at 9:30 pm. Studio Members FREE. Membership Has Its Pleasures.

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Trumpocalypse Now! & Electoral Dysfunction this Saturday on DrSuzy.Tv LiVE from Bonoboville Comments Off on Trumpocalypse Now! & Electoral Dysfunction this Saturday on DrSuzy.Tv LiVE from Bonoboville

This Saturday night, November 12th, The Dr. Susan Block Show will attempt to process Electoral Dysfunction and the Trumpocalypse Now! reality show in which we all now find ourselves living. What did it happen? How will it affect us? What can we do about it? Joining international sexologist and Bonobo Way author Dr. Susan Block, and Capt’n Max, will be be an intimate gathering in the Womb Room, including first-time guest Morena Black, in-house bonobos Gypsy (now a therapist with the Block Institute!) and Jacquie Blu, Sarah Bella Bonobo, Jay Toriko + more TBA. We will also celebrate the glorious defeat of Prop 60 in California, in which Bonoboville played a small part, spreading the word to rock the vote in a bonoboësque sex-positive direction.

Click Here to RSVP to attend this show in the “Speakeasy” studio audience to share Weapons of Mass Discussion as well as pleasures under the palms of Bonoboville this Saturday, or call 626.461.5950 (you can call anytime; someone is always here). Studio doors open at 9:30 pm. Studio Members FREE. Membership Has Its Pleasures.

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Capt’n Max Bday, Guy Fawkes Day, Bonobo Way Anniversary & Pre-Election Day Madness this Saturday, Remember, Remember, the 5th of November on DrSuzy.Tv! Comments Off on Capt’n Max Bday, Guy Fawkes Day, Bonobo Way Anniversary & Pre-Election Day Madness this Saturday, Remember, Remember, the 5th of November on DrSuzy.Tv!

This Saturday night, November 5th, The Dr. Susan Block Show will celebrate Capt'n Max's Birthday, Guy Fawkes Day, pre-Election Day madness and the two-year anniversary of The Bonobo Way: The Evolution of Peace through Pleasure. Married for over 24 years to international sexologist and Bonobo Way author Dr. Susan Block, Capt’n Max, a.k.a., Pr. Maximillian R. Lobkowicz, was the 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. Together, Max and Dr. Suzy founded 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.   

Joining Capt'n Max and Dr. Suzy this Saturday will be our favorite pansensual power couple, Daniele Watts (we'll also be celebrating her birthday!) & Chef Be*LIVE, "Unlicensed Professionals" Catherine Imperio & Samantha Fairley (it's Sam's bday too!), Rhiannon Aarons, Elvis Schoenberg & Gina Anderson, Ikkor the Wolf, Jacquie Blu, Sarah Bella Bonobo, Jay Toriko, Gypsy Bonobo Siouxsie Q James  of the Free Speech Coalition ( Vote No Prop 60 on November 8th!) and Luzer Twersky who will be accompanied by a Loki Films crew documenting his transition from the Satmar Hasidic community to Hollywood and Bonoboville for a Netflix Original Documentary (!). Plus Putin Puppet Theater featuring TrumpBaby and Hillary-on-a-Stick!

Click Here to RSVP to attend this sure-to-be amazing show in the “Speakeasy” studio audience and share pleasures under the palms of Bonoboville this Saturday, or call 626.461.5950 (you can call anytime; someone is always here). Studio doors open at 9:30 pm. Studio Members FREE.  Membership Has Its Pleasures.

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Halloween 2016 in BOOnoBOOville & Kink Month ClimaxXx with Scary FemDoms & Sexy Witches! Comments Off on Halloween 2016 in BOOnoBOOville & Kink Month ClimaxXx with Scary FemDoms & Sexy Witches!

This Saturday night, October 29th, The Dr. Susan Block Show will celebrate Halloween in BOOnoBOOville, another great, so-scary-its-sexy "Night of the Masturbating Dead" and the climaxXx of Kink Month 2016 on DrSuzy.Tv!. Joining international sexologist, Bonobo Way author, erotic hypnotist and bacchanalian belladonna on her Magic Dildonic Vibrating Broom, Dr. Susan Block, live in-studio will be Mistresses Eva CruzParanormal Perversions proprietesses Freudian Slit and Cricket Rose (bringing a sex machine!). Plus Jay Toriko returns! Also introducing: Dr. Suzy's new on-camera assistant, Gypsy Bonobo!This show is associate-produced by Jacquie Blu.

Click Here to RSVP to attend this show in the “Speakeasy” studio audience and share pleasures under the palms of Bonoboville this Saturday, or call 626.461.5950 (you can call anytime; someone is always here). Studio doors open at 9:30 pm. Studio Members FREE. Membership Has Its Pleasures.

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Striptease Therapy Comments Off on Striptease Therapy

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Are you turned on by a good striptease?  Do you love the seductive style of a sensuous exotic dancer?  Do you get a voyeuristic thrill from the bawdy bounce of burlesque?  Do you crave the devastating tease and denialof the skilled ecdysiast? Or do you go for the “amateur,” the sexy girl on the dance floor who lets the music flow through her body like a shimmering stream of pure rhythm?

Do you like to watch your lover dance for you just before you make love?  Or do you prefer to gaze upon a stranger, a hot, untouchable, superstar stripper high up above you on the strip club stage?  Do supple pole dancers drive you crazy? Are you a helpless fan of the femme fatale? A sucker for a supple lapdance?

Have you ever watched a sexy dancer—on the stage, at a club or in your dreams—wishing you could get to know her better?  Do you fantasize about getting her alone and having her deliver on what her dance seems to promise you? Do you imagine her dancing all over you, stripping off your clothes along with hers, then rhythmically riding you into a series of orgasms that has both of you screaming with deep wild pleasure and harmonious erotic energy?

Or do you worry that you (or a loved one) might be “addicted” to strippers?  Are you hanging out in strip clubs whenever you can, cheating on your partner or missing work, sticking all your hard-earned cash in those irresistible little G-strings or just giving the stripper of your dreams money shower after shower, until your wallet is empty and dry?

Or perhaps you prefer doing the striptease to watching it.  Are you a secret exhibitionist who longs to strip upon a stage, to reveal what you so often conceal?   Would you like to be an exotic dancer—professionally or just for fun?  Do you need advice about the "business" or encouragement to strip for personal, private pleasure?  Are you having trouble handling your desires for exhibitionism?  Are you a stripper that wants to transition into a different kind of life?

Do you need to talk about it? 

You can talk to us.  Call the Dr. Susan Block Institute now or anytime, 24/7,  for Striptease Therapy. What exactly is  “Striptease Therapy”?  It can take a variety of forms, depending on you and your needs.  Whether you need help disciplining your out-of-control stripper fetish, getting up the courage to do a seductive striptease for your husband (or wife), or roleplaying an exotic dancer domination fantasy, give us a call at [callus].

Dancing is the world's oldest art form. People have been dancing since shortly after they started walking, and some of the first dances they did were erotic dances, also known as "fertility dances." Essentially, these were dances to make the crops grow along with the men’s erections, dances to make the rain fall as the women got wet.  Some say that any kind of dance is erotic.  George Bernard Shaw famously called dancing “a vertical expression of a horizontal desire.”

Stripping is also very old.  Probably as soon as people started wearing clothes, some people started taking their clothes off in a sexy, seductive way.  Keep in mind that for many thousands of years, we humans were as naked as all the other animals in the forest.  As we started to wear clothing, human nudity became taboo.  Unclothing—or stripping—became theteasing “gateway” between the acceptable, civilized, clothed world and the realm of forbidden, primal nudity.

Thus stripping is one of the most basic, powerful aphrodisiacs there is. The gradual, sensuous removal of articles of clothing reveals the natural mysteries of the human body in a viscerally exciting way that takes us from our cultured world of clothing to a naked realm of primeval pleasures and our deep evolutionary origins.  A well-known University of Chicago Sex Survey found that the second most common turn-on, next to regular sexual intercourse, is watching someone sexy taking off their clothes

Slowly...as one of the greatest American strippers, Gypsy Rose Lee said, "Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly" (though, if you’re in a hurry, a quick strip can also hit the spot!)….

Speaking of Gypsy, in response to her request for a “more dignified” way to refer to her profession than “stripper,” H. L. Mencken is credited with coining the word "ecdysiast" – from "ecdysis", meaning "to molt."

Striptease in mythology goes at least as far back as the ancient Sumerian story of the descent of the goddess Inanna into the Underworld where, at each of the seven gates, she removes an article of clothing until her naked arrival in hell. Inanna’s cosmic striptease is carried on in the Dance of the Seven Veils of Salome, who danced for King Herod in the New Testament (Matthew 14:6 and Mark 6:21-22). Though the Bible records Salome's dance, the first mention of her actually removing seven veils occurs in Oscar Wilde's play Salome in 1893 and Richard Strauss's operatic version in 1905, which some claim as the origin of modern striptease.

In the Gay Nineties, striptease and burlesque flourished in Paris at the Moulin Rouge and Folies Bergère, and in 1905, the notorious and tragic Dutch dancer, Mata Hari, later shot as a spy by the French authorities during World War I, was an overnight striptease success at the Musée Guimet. In the 1920s, an American in Paris, Josephine Baker, stripped to nothing but a “skirt” of bananas in her sensational danse sauvage.

The 1960s saw a revival of striptease in the form of topless go-go dancing. This eventually merged with the older tradition of burlesque to create modern stripping. Carol Doda of the Condor Night Club in San Francisco is given the credit of being the first topless—then bottomlessgo-go dancer.  In the past, the performance often finished as soon as the undressing was over, but today's strippers usually continue dancing, pole-dancing and lapdancing in the nude.

Meanwhile, burlesque or “neo-burlesque” has branched off from stripping into a separate, somewhat more “dignified” and more humor-infused dance form, maintaining the old striptease traditions with new twists.  Then there are the modern temple dancers who perform "striptease therapy" in the sacred traditions of Aphrodite and ApsaraSo many ways to strip and tease!

One of the most famous striptease artists of modern times, Dita Von Teese, has appeared twice on The Dr. Susan Block Show, including once when Dr. Block interviewed Bettie Page, the late legendary American striptease, pin-up and fetish model, in 1996.

Dr. Block also wrote the definition of STRIPTEASE for the new Wiley-Blackwell International Encyclopedia of Human Sexuality.

But back to you…and your stripper fetish

Do you need to talk with someone who’s been on both sides of the lapdance?  For serious sex therapy or a pleasureable phone experience or help with your—or your loved one’s—stripper habit, give us a call right now or anytime you need to talk.  Call [callus].  We’re here for you.

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Do you like to be teased? Does it arouse you to be made to wait for that sweet moment of release?  Or would you rather do the teasing, prolonging your seduction to make the object of your desire crazy with lust for you?  What is it that can make the art of "tease and denial" so irresistible, it's as if it weaves a magic spell around its helpless, happy victim? Everyone needs a little tease, at least sometimes.  Men need to be teased because it makes them slow down. Women need to be teased because it makes us come around.  Teasing puts the pizzazz and mystery into sex.  Otherwise, we’d just be rutting animals.  Even animals tease!  Look at the stop-start, pounce-retreat mating dances of birds, cats, apes, even snakes. A good tease is erotic but indirect, slowly building up to total seduction and surrender. As that consummate strip tease artist Gypsy Rose Lee once said, “Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.”  A great tease has all the time in the world. And with a great tease, you never know if you’re going to get the gold you’re going for.  You might, but then again you might not.  You have to be flexible with a tease.  You have to remember the Golden Rule of TeaseYou never know.  The best laid plans may not get you laid the way you planned.  You have to be willing to go with the tease, please… Teasing wears a variety of masks and hats.  There is the innocent tease who doesn’t even know she’s a tease, and is all the more devastating for it.  There’s the experienced tease who spins her webs of seduction with great skill and sensitivity.  I say “her” because, though men can tease too, teasing is a feminine wile.  It is manipulative and circuitous, womanly attributes.  Some teasing is spontaneous, light as a feather.  Some teasing is calculated, steeped in the art of salacious sorcery.  Some teasing is loving and sweet, almost nurturing, like tickling a baby.  Some teasing is playful and charming, dazzling and devastatingly witty.  Some teasing is mean and nasty, even vicious and cruel.  Teasing can also be humiliating and torturous.  And some teasing really hurts.  Rapes, murders, even MASS murders have been committed by people—even children--who say they did it because  they were teased.  Teasing can be dangerous.  It can be quite harmless too, of course.  That is why we say “I’m just teasing!” to insist we’re harmless.  But it is the dangerous aspects of teasing that make it erotic.  That, and the sensuous nature of revealing something slowly, gradually, then maybe not at all, then maybe a little more.  It is too dangerous to show more.  Too hot to handle.  That is the Art of the Tease.

One of the greatest teases of history, believe it or not, is Queen Esther of the Bible. The shrewd and seductive Esther of Shushan, in what is now Iran, teased the great and powerful Persian King Ahasuerus into such an erotic frenzy that he freed her people from genocide.  Queen Cleopatra of Egypt was also a great tease; it was her extraordinary teasing ability that kept the Romans guessing and ultimately kept Egypt governed by its own people (that is, herself) until her death.

In modern times, teasing is the stuff of stars, Marilyn Monroe being the most legendary tease.  Bettie Page, sometimes called the Dark Marilyn, was also a most delicious tease. Now Dita Von Teese continues the legacy of the tease.  I was privileged to have Bettie Page as a guest on my show a few years ago--with Dita (when she was an 18-year-old Heather Sweet) in my studio audience!  Though Bettie spoke with me on the air for over an hour, she refused to show her face.  What a tease.  She said she wanted us to think of her the way she was, forever young and beautiful; she wanted control of her image.

And, yes, teasing is about control.  Once you lose control, you’re not teasing anymore. It’s tough to tease when you're in mid-orgasm.  Once the orgasm is on, the tease  is over....unless you're a really good tease.

Does all this talk about teasing make you yearn to be teased?

Call the telephone sex therapists of The Dr. Susan Block Institute for Tease and Denial Phone Sex Therapy. Whether you're looking to be teased yourself by one of our sweet, charming, experienced, degreed and/or deliciously cruel sex therapists, if you're in need of some teasing advice to seduce that someone you've been wanting for a while, or if you want to better understand, explore, express, limit and/or control your desire for tease and denial, we're here  for you 27/7. We are the world's foremost experts in the fine art of tease and denial.  Call now at [callus]

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