This Saturday night, June 10th, The Dr. Susan Block Show will celebrate international sexologist and Bonobo Way author Dr. Susan Block's birthday and another great year in Bonoboville with a galaxy of stars, friends and lovers, including Riley Reyes, Christiana Cinn, Jessica Jaymes, Daniele Watts, Chef Be*Live, Jacob Sokoloff, Jack Jimminy, Mistress Tara Indiana, Rhiannon Aarons, Jonny Menton, Sheree Rose, Goddess Nicolette, Erika Simone, Bambi Leigh,  Loni Legend, Mistress Liz, Ikkor the Wolf, Janelle Hopkins, John Clark, Derek Wilder, Madam Raven Rae, Amor Hilton, Tuesday Conner, Miss Joy Luck, Sir Pent, Madame Margherite, Luzer Twersky, Jux Lii, Todd Jones, Amanda Blow, Daryl Wright, Aaliyah Corsets, Gypsy Bonobo, Jacquie Blu, plus Capt'n Max, of course, and more TBA.

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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’s “The 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!

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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.

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."

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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 Cruz, Paranormal 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.

Call Now [callus]

by Dr. Susan Block.

Do you have a secret crush on a sexy celebrity? You are not alone. Celebrity fantasizing is extremely common. Studies show that up to thirty-three percent of the human population fantasizes about famous people when masturbating. Sexual fantasies about well-known figures in film, music, politics, YouTube, fashion, sports or porn can be exciting, arousing, vicariously glamorous and sometimes even empowering. In many cases, partners can enjoy lighthearted celebrity sex fantasies together.  But for some, fantasizing about celebrities can cause tremendous shame, obsessive desires that can be difficult to manage, as well as disruption or inhibition of real-life love and happiness.

Why do you fantasize about famous people?

“But WHY am I sexually obsessed with this celebrity?” you may ask, and there are many possible answers to this question. Perhaps the object of your obsession reflects your personal ideal of what you’d like in a partner.  Then again, it could also be that the celebrity represents the opposite of the values than you were raised to uphold, which makes them “forbidden fruit,” different, desirable, erotically exotic and enticingly unattainable.  

You may feel that you know your favorite famous person better than you know your own real-life lover(s), even though you actually don’t know your beloved celebrity at all. The sheer accessibility of public figures – images, videos and details about their private lives – coupled with their actual, physical inaccessibility (some are surrounded by bodyguards) provides fertile ground for sexual fantasies to blossom.

With pornography so pervasive, it’s no wonder than many people’s fantasies revolve around adult performers, maybe even more than mainstream celebrities. Moreover, with porn stars, you get to know even more physical details, especially regarding their genitalia and erotic responses. Watching people have sex, often in close-up, as you masturbate, can make you feel incredibly close to the performer, without knowing him or her at all.

Then again, you might have intense sexual fantasies about celebrities who do not try to present themselves in an erotic light, for example, newscasters, daytime talk show hosts, famous doctors, religious leaders or professional athletes. The sky’s the limit when it comes to imagining sex among the stars.

However, not all celebrity fantasy is about having sex. Many people imagine platonic “special friend” relationships with famous people, or even familial ones.  Again, there’s nothing inherently wrong with this, and everybody who watches a film or follows someone they don’t know on social media is, to some extent, fantasizing about celebrities. It’s when the fantasy gets “out of control” and wreaks havoc with your reality, that the illusions can become a problem for you or others.

Another form of celebrity fantasy is to imagine that you are the famous person that you admire. This could be an actor, a rock star, a porn star, a politician or a preacher. You might imagine living that person’s life instead of your own and even having sex as that celebrity, instead of as yourself. Very often, celebrity fantasies like these can be empowering, as the celebrity becomes a kind of role model in your mind. This sort of roleplay can enhance your sexual prowess and confidence. However, constantly imagining you are someone else can inhibit you from enjoying your own life.

Whether sexual, platonic, romantic or pornographic, if your celebrity fantasies are causing problems in your life, and you feel you need to talk about them, the therapists of the Dr. Susan Block Institute are here for you, 24/7, wherever you are, and whatever the nature of your celebrity fantasies. We can help you sort through whatever problems might arise from them, or if, on the other hand, you feel you don’t have problems with your celebrity fantasies, we can help you to explore them in various ways, including roleplay in the Erotic Theater of the Mind, over the phone or via webcam, helping you to use your celebrity fantasies to enhance your own sexuality, and maybe even improve your life.  Call us anytime you need to talk at 213-291-9397.

Who knows, we might even be able to get you together – on the phone, cam or in person – with the celebrity of your dreams. We know a lot of people in Hollywood and around the world, and we’ve done it before. No guarantees, but it’s also true that almost everyone has a price… especially celebrities.

What if your celebrity fantasies are ruining your life?

Does your fantasy of a spicy threesome with David and Victoria Beckham make your real sex life pale in comparison? With Brangelina broken up, do you dream or making either of them whole again, to the point that what happened to them is on the verge of happening to you?

Perhaps you’re more dazzled by the more flagrant allure of porn stars. Is your interest in penetrating every hole of Penthouse Pet Layla Sin or your MILF fantasy with Nina Hartley putting a damper on your desire for your real life partner? Do you want to play with Isiah Maxwell’s 11 inch joystick so bad that you can’t find joy in what you have?

Maybe politicians turn you on. Do you imagine exchanging tighty-whitey shots with Anthony Weiner? Or maybe you yearn to have your own ‘Lewinsky’ moment, but include Hillary in the party this time? Even if you want to hump Trump… no topic is off limits in the Erotic Theater of the Mind. Call us anytime at 213-291-9497.

Then again, maybe your constant fantasizing about Kim leaving Kanye to start a new family with you is ruining the family you actually have. Would you rather masturbate alone to your fantasies about your crush than share intimacy with your partner? Do you find that you can’t get aroused without focusing on your fantasy? No, it doesn’t mean you’re a “sex addict.” But you might need some experienced and understanding help with sorting things out, which we can provide here at the Block Institute.

Some other markers to help you decide if you need help are:

- if you can’t concentrate on your work because your mind is filled with your favorite celebrity

- if you shun most social contact, preferring isolation so you can be alone with your fantasy

- if you find yourself feeling very emotional about your celebrity crush, such as being jealous of their real-life partner, angry that they never respond to you on social media or depressed that they are not part of your real life

- if you are spending hours stalking your crush online or in real life, trying to physically go places where you think they will be

- if you feel guilty about your fantasies, as if you’re cheating on your actual partner

Though celebrity fantasies are usually harmless and can even be beneficial, “celebrity worship syndrome” (defined, in part, by the above markers) is an obsessive disorder in which the “worshipper” becomes perilously involved with the details of a celebrity's personal life. Obviously stalking your favorite famous person is dangerous, criminal and could land you in jail. But the fallout from your celebrity obsession could be more subtle than that.

Whether your erotic obsession is with Bonnie Rotten or Pope Francis, if that “ideal” is keeping you from connecting with someone real, remember: The Ideal is the Enemy of the Real. And consider: you might benefit from some therapy.

If your fantasies are becoming problematic for you, your loved ones—or the celebrities themselves!—the therapists of the Dr. Susan Block Institute are here to help. Call us anytime at 213.291.9497.

What if your fantasies are contrary to your sexual orientation?

Does Woody Harrelson give you a woody even though you’re straight? Or maybe a certain ‘real housewife’ has you secretly questioning your relationship with your real husband. Enjoying homoerotic celebrity fantasies does not necessarily mean that you’d be interested in pursuing a same-sex relationship in real life. Then again, it just might…

One reason you could have same-sex celebrity fantasies is that many cultures and social constructs consider homosexuality unacceptable, and engaging in something taboo can be exciting.  On the flip side, if you identify as gay, but fantasize about straight sex with celebrities, your natural bi-curiosity does not necessarily mean that is your “true” sexual identity. That’s one of the benefits of celebrity sex fantasies: they help you to explore your sexual fluidity with someone you feel like you know, even though you really don’t, in the Erotic Theater of the Mind.

Need to talk about it? Our therapists are available to help you explore. Call us anytime at 213-291-9497.

Fantasizing about celebrities can be a normal and beneficial sexual outlet whether you’re single or married, male or female, young or old, straight, gay, bisexual or transsexual. There are healthy ways to explore your dreams and desires, no matter how outrageous or out-of-reach they might seem in your everyday life.

The therapists of the Block Institute provide a safe, comfortable and absolutely confidential environment to experiment with your favorite celebrity fantasies any which way you like. There are healthy ways to indulge in your fantasy life without doing harm in your real life. Imagine the fun of creating a movie in your mind with you as the star and your celebrity crush as the erotic interest – and of course you get the girl (or guy)! The experienced and understanding sex therapists at the Dr. Susan Block Institute can play out your fantasies with Erotic Theater Therapy, used in combination with other more traditional forms of sex counseling, helping you to enjoy living your Hollywood sex dream in your mind and still keep your real life on track. 

Whatever your desires, questions or concerns, we’re here to help, 24 hours a day.  Call us anytime at 213-291-9497.

Call Now [callus]

by Dr. Susan Block.

A vital part of good sex involves feeling… well, sexy.  While some of that feeling is purely mental or spiritual, a large part of it is physical. That includes feeling attracted to your partner’s body, if you have a partner. And it means feeling good about your own body, whether you have a partner or not.

Do you feel good about your body? Do you feel sexy in your skin? Or do you have “body image” issues that interfere with your ability to relax and enjoy yourself during sex?

Anxious About Your Body… or Body Parts?

“Body image issues” encompass a wide spectrum of concerns and worries that plague women, men and transgender people of all ages, creeds and colors, in every culture around the globe. For most of us, these are relatively trivial concerns, but for some, body image issues morph into body shame, weighing us down to the point that we feel that we can’t pursue or enjoy sex at all.

Do you have a body image issue? Perhaps you feel you are too heavy or too thin, too tall or too short. A woman might worry that her breasts are too small or too large, that her thighs are too wide, her butt is too narrow, her face is too old or her feet are too big, and the list goes on.

A man is more likely to be anxious about his height, and an even more common male concern is that his penis is not big enough. Freud said women had “penis envy,” but it’s more often men who are envious of other men’s members, especially when they are larger, or perceived to be larger. This is another body image issue that has a lot to do with perception. Even men with average or above-average-sized endowments may feel deep shame and a sense of humiliation over what they perceive to be sexual inadequacies.

Transgender people might fret that they can’t “pass,” that they have too much or too little body hair, that they are not feminine or masculine enough to fit the ideal that’s in their mind of the gender to which they are transitioning.

While it’s good to have ideals in life, some physical ideals can drive us crazy with debilitating anxiety, impossible goals and enervating shame. After all, the ideal is the enemy of the real, especially when it comes to sex and love.

Has someone in authority criticized your body or body parts? Have they judged you, made demeaning comments, touched or lusted after your body inappropriately or uncomfortably when you were a child? Then you’re more likely to have body image issues, especially if you’re trying to conform to unrealistic ideals.

Hollywood & Porn

There’s nothing wrong with enjoying Hollywood entertainment or pornography, and doing so doesn’t make you a “romance junkie” or “sex addict.” However, both tend to exacerbate our body image issues. Millions of women look at film stars and feel unattractive by comparison. A similar amount of men tend to compare themselves to porn stars, usually coming up short—literally—or so they feel.

Most of us harbor insecurities about how we appear to others, as well as frustration with how we look to ourselves. It’s only human to be a bit dissatisfied with your looks and physical attributes, at least sometimes. Everybody has a body, and most of us have body image issues, at least at some point in our lives.

But if your body image issues are interfering with your ability to share and enjoy the pleasures of life, especially the joys of sex, love and affection, you might benefit from getting some perspective by talking about these issues with a good therapist who understands.

The “Therapists Without Borders” of the Dr. Susan Block Institute are here to help you with your body image issues, as well as other sex and relationship concerns, anytime you need to talk 24/7. Call us at 213-291-9497.

Accept Yourself and Your Body

When your mind is tortured, or even just distracted, by your body images concerns, you are not able to enjoy your sexual experience to the fullest. Nor are you the best sex partner you can be.

Through various traditional and unorthodox programs and techniques, including bonobo liberation therapy, life coaching, erotic theater therapy, sensate focus, guided masturbation, erotic hypnosis and more, we can help you to accept your body as it is—with all its so-called "flaws"—so that you can start enjoying better sex and, in the process, become a better, more open and exciting sexual partner.

Need to talk about it now? We’re here for you 24/7. Call 213-291-9597 and we will put you through to a therapist who can help you with your body image issues and more.

Body Shame

Do you feel that your naked physical body is "dirty"? Maybe you don’t have problems with your body shape or size, but you do have issues of "body shame,” perhaps related to a strict, religious upbringing or other anti-sex, anti-body messages from childhood.

Sexual assault, whether in childhood or adulthood, can also tremendously affect our comfort with our bodies. It’s hard to feel good about your body when that same body has been used and abused by others, even if that abuse was in the distant past.

Sex-negativity and poor body image issues are completely understandable in a sex abuse or trauma survivor. Just knowing that, however, doesn’t make these issues much easier to handle, especially if and when they *ruin* an otherwise positive erotic experience. However, identifying your personal, problematic body image issues is the first step towards healing and empowering your sexual self.

Need to talk about it? Whether you are a survivor of religious, familial or any other kind of sexual abuse, if you want to develop a positive body image and the happy, healthy sex life you deserve, we can help. The caring, knowledgeable therapists of the Dr. Susan Block Institute can guide you toward enjoying a healthier relationship with your body.   And you can call us anytime, 24 hours a day, at 213-291-9497.

What About Changing Your Body for the Better?

Most body image issues are “in your head.” But if you’re truly obese, anorexic, bulimic or dangerously out of shape, perhaps you should make some changes. None of this means you should put your sex life on hold; on the contrary! Exploring your sexuality at a pace that’s right for you can help you to lose or gain weight and get healthier and fit.

Whether your change “for the better” requires moral support during your transgender process, or getting fit and healthy, our therapists are ready to assist you in making your transition to the body you desire, as well as expressing and exploring your sexuality to the fullest in the body you are in right now.

If discussing these topics is difficult for you, rest assured that you are in good hands. Our therapists are here for you, whether or not your body shame is just “in your head.” We will help you to have the best, most fulfilling sex and love life that you can have, enjoying your body, yourself and your life.

Let’s talk about it. Call us anytime at 213.2991.9497.

This Saturday night, August 20th, The Dr. Susan Block Show will enjoy a sure-to-be-HOT summer night of fetish fun. Joining international sexologist and Bonobo Way author Dr. Susan Block live in-studio will be fabulous Domina & DomConLA 2016 Mistress of Ceremonies Madam Raven Rae, last seen engaging in intense foot fetish play on Elvis in Bonoboville, voluptuous ProDomme Humiliatrix Miss Freudian Slit, (last seen on Ms. Tara for President & FemDom Politics the Bonobo Way), Jay Toriko (last seen performing auto-fellatio on the ErotiqueTv Olympics) and lovely Speakeasy bartendress Shannon Coronado, plus the return of Handsome Hollywood Jake... and more (always more!) TBA.

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.

This Saturday night, August 13th, The Dr. Susan Block Show will enjoy a sure-to-be-sizzling HOT summer night with ErotiqueTV. Joining international sexologist and Bonobo Way author Dr. Susan Block live in-studio will be MIT alumnus, former Boeing executive and ErotiqueTV CEO and leading man Eric John (last seen on DrSuzy.Tv at Dr Suzy and Pr. Max's 24th Wedding Anniversary, but best-known for the amazing ErotiqueTV Mega Orgy), flanked by sexy up-and-coming porn starlets Gabriella Lane (who kicked off the Year of the Monkey with us on Sushi Girl) and Maya Kendrick, as well as newcomer Coco NiKol. Also in-studio: talented pop singer Jessica Shores, a.k.a., J sho, and the lovely Shannon Coronado tending your libational desires at the Speakeasy bar... and more (always more!) TBA.

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.

Los Angeles, California: June 1, 2016 — Susan M. Block, Ph.D., a.k.a., “Dr. Suzy,” internationally renowned sexologist and best-selling author of The Bonobo Way: The Evolution of Peace through Pleasure (Gardner & Daughters Publishers), will present “The Bonobo Way: An Alternative Great Ape Paradigm for Human Sexuality” at the 48^th Annual Conference of The American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors & Therapists (AASECT), to be held June 8-12 in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

“I look forward to sharing this very special portion of the ‘Bonobo Sutra’ with my fellow sex educators and therapists,” says Dr. Block who has been presenting various aspects of the Bonobo Way, locally and abroad, at different academic and lifestyle conferences over the past few months, including the keynote address to the world’s first “ecosexuality” symposium in an academic institution, convened at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez by UPRM Humanities Professor SerenaGaia Anderlini D'Onofrio. She also gave a talk on nonmonogamy among bonobos at the 5^th International Conference on Monogamy & Nonmonogamy at UC Berkeley; and she just delivered a rousing presentation at DomCon LA 2016 on bonobos as the “Most FemDom Apes on Earth."

Next, on Saturday, June 11, she will speak at AASECT 2016 where “Putting the Pieces Together: Inclusivity in Practice” will be the conference theme. “A vital piece of the human sexuality puzzle is our interconnected Great Ape nature,” says Block, an AASECT member since 2005. “Bonobos are the most inclusive apes on Earth. They love to share food and sex with friends and strangers. This is deeply linked to another “piece” of the puzzle that bonobos “put together”: peace through pleasure. Bonobos are the only great apes who have never been seen killing each other. We humans can learn a lot from our bonobo cousins about our own sexual diversity, erotic inclusivity, gender equality and inherent potential for harmony. As sex therapists, we can help our clients to release their ‘inner bonobos’ consensually, relatively safely and enjoyably. And speaking of joy, I am overjoyed to return to Puerto Rico, the ecosexual ‘Island of Enchantment’ and a wonderful place to learn about love.”

A consistent message in all of Block’s Bonobo Way talks is the critical importance of saving the highly endangered wild bonobos from imminent extinction, and she encourages her audiences to “adopt a bonobo” with Lola ya Bonobo or the Bonobo Conservation Initiative, among others. “Bonobo conservation is integral to the Bonobo Way,” says Block. “If we lose the bonobos, then we lose a key to understanding human sexuality that we can never find again.”

AASECT 2016 will be held June 8-12, 2016 at the Condado Plaza Hilton in San Juan, Puerto Rico. “The Bonobo Way: An Alternative Great Ape Paradigm for Human Sexuality” is scheduled for 4:15-5:45 pm on June 11, 2016. For information about the Bonobo Way at AASECT 2016 or to arrange an interview with Dr. Susan Block, please call 626-461-5950.

Contact: David Rossi Phone: 626.461.5950 Email: [email protected] Web: thebonoboway.com Watch the Video: http://j.mp/TBWyouTubeTrailer

HUMANS ARE LOVING THE BONOBO WAY

“The Bonobo Way is a refreshing must-read for our times.” —Dr. Patti Britton, American Association for Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT) Past President

“Impactful, often hilarious… wildly entertaining… The Bonobo Way just might hold the key to world peace.” —HUFFINGTON POST book review by Steve Karras

“The Bonobo Way is sexy and fun... damn smart too.” —Sex at Dawn, author Christopher Ryan, Ph.D.

“The Bonobo Way is a pleasure on all counts... and especially significant at this time.” —Dr. SerenaGaia Anderlini D’Onofrio, co-editor of Ecosexuality

“Bravo Dr. Block for paving the way to a hopefully more bonobo future.” —Vanessa Woods, Duke University primatologist and author of Bonobo Handshake

“Brilliant… A great book about human sexuality.” —Sherry Rehman, Sr. VP of Pakistan People’s Party & former Ambassador to the U.S.

“Amazing! Dr. Susan Block is an ecosexual visionary.” —Annie Sprinkle, Ph.D., ecosexual artist and filmmaker

“The Bonobo Way is marvelous! A happy book for a happy life in a happier world.” —Xaviera Hollander, author of The Happy Hooker

“Awesome book... Excellently written and transformative” —Dorion Sagan, science writer and author of Death & Sex

“Dr. Susan Block has a new understanding of how to enhance our intimate relationships!” —Progressive News Network interview with Dr. Diana Wiley

“Adventure, optimism, and love is what Dr. Susan Block is all about… Patients become fans, and fans become evangelists.” —CITIZEN LA Inside the Pleasure Compound with Dr. Susan Block

“AMAZING… The Bonobo Way shines a light on humanity’s capacity for peace.” —Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman, author of Wired to Create

"The Bonobo Way will save our planet! Dr. Susan's insight into sexuality is not only incredible...it is also the sexual revolution, easily mapped out, that we have been waiting for." --Tracy Vanity, blogger

“I love every page of The Bonobo Way!” —Christian Bruyère, producer of Champions of the Wild

The Bonobo Way is available in kindle and paperback on Amazon or direct from the publisher. A portion of all proceeds from book sales goes to Lola ya Bonobo and the Bonobo Conservation Initiative, as well as other organizations actively helping to protect and save the highly endangered wild bonobos from extinction.

Tired of conventional sexuality experts? Dr. Block is available for comment or interview. Would you like to review The Bonobo Way? Contact us today.

David Rossi Phone: 626.461.5950 Email: [email protected] Web:thebonoboway.com Watch the Video: http://j.mp/TBWyouTubeTrailer

Call Now [callus]

by Susan M. Block, Ph.D.

Freedom is the greatest aphrodisiac, but restraint is a close second.

Do you like to be tied up by a Dominant Mistress or Master? Do you enjoy erotic bondage, handcuffs, shackles, ropes, collars, straightjackets, spreader bars, harnesses or four of “Christian’s” grey silk ties fastened securely around your wrists and ankles? How about being blindfolded, hooded, muzzled, dominated, restrained by a ball gag, locked up in a chastity belt, strapped down to a medical examination table, put into a posture collar, led around on a leash, shut up in a cage, zipped into a sleep sack, suspended from the ceiling, put into a sling, turned into a piece of human art with beautiful Japanese Shibari rope work, tied spread-eagle to a four-poster bed or latched onto a St. Andrews's Cross while being spanked or flogged?  Do you get aroused by bondage—in fantasy or reality... or perhaps a bit of both?

Sexy consensual bondage games are not unusual. People have been incorporating erotic restraint into sexual play since before there were people! Non-human animals, like bonobos, indulge in consensual erotic bondage games when they playfully hold each other down during sex, a fairly frequent occurrence. We know it's "consensual" since sometimes it's the smaller bonobo "holding down" the bigger, stronger bonobo. Humans practice consensual bondage play even more, partly because our great ingenuity has enabled us to create so many elaborate and effective bondage devices.

Though many erotica and bondage experts don't appreciate the superficial and sometimes wrongheaded style of 50 Shades of Grey, the huge worldwide popularity of the 50 Shades books and films, has given bondage a new level of acceptance and respectability, both in mainstream society and in the media.

Nevertheless, bondage or “BDSM” (Bondage & Discipline, Dominance & submission and Sadomasochism) is still controversial and quite taboo in most human communities, making it a very difficult world to navigate or even talk about for many people.

Whatever your bondage fantasy or reality, the world-famous telephone sex therapists at the Dr. Susan Block Institute, including several BDSM specialists and experienced FemDoms, Dominant males and submissives, are just a phone call away. Anytime you need to talk, 24 hours a day, we're here for you. Call us now at 213.291.9497.

Exploring fantasies is a great way to start your BDSM adventures. The safe, consensual exploration of domination fantasies can be a fantastic, peaceful channel for some people's violent impulses, preventing them from actually hurting anyone, including themselves. It can involve sexual psychodrama, safely releasing aggressive forces that lurk deep in our subconscious where they can be more destructive. BDSM can even help to reduce domestic violence. If it can help keep bonobos from killing each other, maybe it can even help humans to create peace on Earth.

While "surrender" means defeat in war or business, in LOVE or sex, surrender can be sweet, and the ultimate expression of intimate fulfillment. Since society puts such pressure on all of us--male and female--to be powerful, to achieve and to succeed, deep in our erotic imaginations, many of us may long to surrender.

In bondage (even consensual bondage), the submissive is “forced” to surrender.

This creates some very interesting sexual dynamics. The ancient Taoist masters say, "In yielding, there is strength." In surrender, there can be power. Many strong men fantasize about surrender, about being a sex object--being seduced, spanked, pegged, ravished, even raped--“forced” to perform various sexual acts, often while in some sort of restraint.

Considering how many ladies balk at being considered sex objects (though many enjoy it too), this may sound silly to some women, but lots of men crave it, within certain boundaries, of course. Some men find that being dominated, especially when tied up, actually removes performance anxiety. After all, if you can't move, you can't perform, so what’s there to be anxious about?

Some guys love to struggle against their restraints, building a rush of adrenaline, then surrendering to ecstasy. It’s a form of athletic eroticism that many great athletes adore. After a big win on the football field or basketball court, they relax by “losing” to a sexy Mistress or Master who puts them in bondage and dominates them into blissfulness.

Of course, many women (and men) are frightened by a man’s submissive desires. They are afraid that because he craves surrender, he is not much of a man. They think he must be some kind of wimp or weirdo, which is one reason that many men find it difficult, if not impossible to talk about their desires for bondage or submission with the women they love.

In reality, it's mostly high-powered men who yearn to surrender sexually.  Perhaps this is because nature seeks a balance, but many successful businessmen, weary of their responsibilities and stresses, long to be infantilized, objectified, taken advantage of, to surrender control for a brief period in their day or heavy work week, a vacation from responsibility, a chance to be a little boy again, or maybe a girl.

Many submissives just want someone sexy to push them into doing things they're afraid to do on their own. Some find that fear increases arousal. A little fear enhances sex like a little seasoning spices your meal, but remember... too much spice spoils the meat.

Some men long to surrender to an exciting woman who knows what she wants and isn’t afraid to ask for it--or even demand it--from them. Many enjoy anal penetration, the body’s ultimate surrender, often combined with a form of bondage. Some respond to humiliation fantasies, being “forced” to do embarrassing things, to atone for their “sin” of arousal.

Some like to be spanked. Sometimes, though not always, this is because they were spanked as children. Partly because our society is so negative about sex, many people—men and women--fantasize about being punished, or forced against their will to have sex, often involving some kind of bondage. That way, they don’t feel so responsible and can just relax and enjoy the sensations. Now, of course, just because someone has a rape fantasy does not mean they really want to be raped. Nobody really wants to be raped. But lots of people fantasize about it. And consensual bondage provides a plausible, relatively safe “setting” for such a fantasy.

A word to the wise: Learn what you’re doing before you do too much! Read books on the subject of your interest, take a class and/or study under a knowledgeable Master or Mistress.

BDSM, like mountain climbing, skydiving and driving a car, can be dangerous if not done properly. Be careful about what you do and with whom you do it.

What if your desires are more dominant? As long as your real-life activity is "safe, sane and consensual," there's nothing wrong with expressing your Dominant desires. But the requirement to learn what you're doing--whether you're putting your slave in bondage or getting her or him out of it very quickly in an emergency--is even more important when you want to dominate.Keep in mind that it may seem like the dominant partner is in control, but it should be that the submissive's threshold of pain that is the determining factor.

In fantasy, where we use our brains and words to live out these desires in the erotic theater of the mind, these safety rules do not apply; the sky's the limit, and you don't even have to know how to tie a knot.

Then again, there are also different types of "emotional bondage" or "mind control," sometimes involving erotic hypnosis, which can be just as restraining in fantasy as reality.

It can be very confusing... and arousing! So if you need to talk about it privately, whatever your bondage fantasy or reality might be, the world-famous telephone sex therapists at the Dr. Susan Block Institute, including several BDSM specialists, experienced Dominants and submissives, are just a phone call away. Anytime you need to talk or webcam, 24 hours a day, we're here for you, and you can call us at 213.291.9497.

This Saturday night, April 2nd, The Dr. Susan Block Show will explore the Black Arts of Domination. Joining international sexologist and Bonobo Way author Dr. Susan Block live in-studio will be DomCon LA 2016 Mistress of Ceremonies Goddess Fae Black. Mistress of the House of Black  in San Diego where she hosts Lifestyle Kink Swinger parties, Goddess Fae enjoys bondage, strap-on play, mummification and feminization, among other activities. She will appear on DrSuzy.Tv accompanied by Domina Rox Van Der Lee and Lady D Royal, Miss Angelina Adams, Sydney Jones of Goddess Fae's San Diego Femdom Four, as well as a sub or two. Also in-studio March 26th: the fabulous Dayton Rains—award-winning porn star, webcam and phone therapist with the Institute, and associate producer for DrSuzy.Tv—and more TBA. This show is produced by Del Rey Bonobo.

"The Black Arts of Domination" will broadcast LIVE from Bonoboville on The Dr. Susan Block Show Saturday night, March 26h, 2016, 10:30pm-Midnight PST. It can be viewed on DrSuzy.Tv or in Bonoboville where you can also chat live in the Bonoboville Studio.

Call-In During the Live Broadcast: 1.866.289.7068. Tweet comments and questions @RadioSUZY1 and @DrSuzy. Listen Free or Watch the live show at DrSusanBlock.Tv. This week’s live broadcast sponsored by Sybian, Condomania, Glyde America ALL-VEGAN Condoms, Agwa Cocoa Leaf Liqueur, Ron de Jeremy Rum, JuxLeather and Wein-Erotik-Edition.

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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Los Angeles, California: February 2, 2016 — Susan M. Block, Ph.D., a.k.a., “Dr. Suzy,” internationally renowned sexologist and best-selling author of The Bonobo Way: The Evolution of Peace through Pleasure (Gardner & Daughters Publishers), will give a talk on “The Bonobo Way: Consensual Nonmonogamy Among Non-Human Primates” at the Society for Applied and Academic Research (SAAR) 5^th International Conference on the Future of Monogamy and Nonmonogamy in the International House Conference Center on-campus at the University of California, Berkeley.

Block’s cable TV show, The Dr. Susan Block Show, produced by Frank Moore and Luver Radio, has run weekly on Berkeley Cable TV (BCM, aka BETV) for over 15 years (now collected on Internet Archive), and was one of the shows targeted for censorship by the Berkeley City Council in 2002, though ultimately Moore and Block prevailed.

Inspired by the “Make Love Not War” bonobo chimpanzees (Pan paniscus), Block will present “The Bonobo Way” as an alternative great ape paradigm that can illuminate and enhance human relationships—whether nonmonogamous, monogamous or “monogamish.”

“Though one bonobo may “fall in love” with another, bonobos—like all other great apes—do not naturally practice monogamy; that is, sticking with only one sex partner for life,” says Block. “Some experts call bonobos “polyamorous,” and studies show that bonobos enjoy “swinging” through the trees, as well as with each other. Hetero and homosexual relations both play vital parts in the harmony of ‘pansexual’ life for Pan paniscus. Most notably, bonobos have never been seen killing each other in the wild or captivity. They appear to utilize nonmonogamous sexual activity, along with female empowerment, sharing resources and deeply empathetic compassion-in-action, to diffuse violent tensions before they turn deadly.

“For decades, the old ‘killer ape’ paradigm, based on killer common chimpanzees and baboons, has been use by academics and arms dealers to explain and excuse human murder, rape and war. However, bonobos are just as close to humans as are common chimps—over 98% genetically similar to us—and much closer to us than baboons. The Bonobo Way is a path of peace through pleasure… that starts with our love lives. It asks: What can we learn from our nonmonogamous kissing cousins, the bonobos, about the primal nature of love and lust, and how can this knowledge help improve both monogamous and nonmonogamous human relationships?

“A vital aspect of The Bonobo Way involves raising human awareness regarding the highly endangered wild bonobos’ conservation and preventable extinction; if we lose the bonobos, then we lose a key to peace, understanding and improving human relationships that we can never find again.”

Block’s talk, The Bonobo Way: Consensual Nonmonogamy Among Non-Human Primates, is scheduled for 1:10 pm on February 13, 2016, in Session 2C of the 5^th International Conference on the Future of Monogamy and Nonmonogamy (Coordinator: Dr. Dave Doleshal) at the International House Conference Center, University of California, Berkeley, 2299 Piedmont Avenue, Berkeley, CA., 94720. For information, call 626-461-5950.

WHY PEOPLE LOVE THE BONOBO WAY

“Impactful, often hilarious… wildly entertaining… The Bonobo Way just might hold the key to world peace.” —HUFFINGTON POST book review by Steve Karras

“The Bonobo Way is sexy and fun... damn smart too.” —"TANGENTIALLY SPEAKING" Podcast Interview with Sex at Dawn author Chris Ryan, Ph.D.

"I love, love, love it. The Bonobo Way is a fresh way to look at sexuality." —Darrel Ray, Ed.D., author of Sex and God

“The Bonobo Way is a pleasure on all counts... and especially significant at this time.” —Dr. SerenaGaia Anderlini D’Onofrio, co-editor of Ecosexuality

“The Bonobo Way is a refreshing must-read for our times.” —Dr. Patti Britton, American Association for Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT) Past President

“Bravo Dr. Block for paving the way to a hopefully more bonobo future.” —Vanessa Woods, Duke University primatologist and author of Bonobo Handshake

“Brilliant… A great book about human sexuality.” —Sherry Rehman, Sr. VP of Pakistan People’s Party & former Ambassador to the U.S.

“Amazing! Dr. Susan Block is an ecosexual visionary.” —Annie Sprinkle, Ph.D., ecosexual artist and filmmaker

“The Bonobo Way is marvelous! A happy book for a happy life in a happier world.” —Xaviera Hollander, author of The Happy Hooker

“Awesome book... Excellently written and transformative” —Dorion Sagan, science writer and author of Death & Sex

“Dr. Susan Block has a new understanding of how to enhance our intimate relationships!” —Progressive News Network interview with Dr. Diana Wiley

“Adventure, optimism, and love is what Dr. Susan Block is all about… Patients become fans, and fans become evangelists.” —CITIZEN LA Inside the Pleasure Compound with Dr. Susan Block

“AMAZING… The Bonobo Way shines a light on humanity’s capacity for peace.” —Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman, author of Wired to Create

“I love every page of The Bonobo Way!” —Christian Bruyère, producer of Champions of the Wild

The Bonobo Way is available in kindle and paperback on Amazon or direct from the publisher. A portion of all proceeds from book sales goes to Lola ya Bonobo and the Bonobo Conservation Initiative, as well as other organizations actively helping to protect and save the highly endangered wild bonobos from extinction.

Tired of conventional sexuality experts? Dr. Block is available for comment or interview. Would you like to review The Bonobo Way? Contact us today.

David Rossi Phone: 626.461.5950 Email: [email protected] Web: thebonoboway.com Watch The Video: http://j.mp/TBWyouTubeTrailer

This Saturday night, December 19th, The Dr. Susan Block Show will celebrate Xmas, its pagan antecedent, the Roman Saturnalia, and natural "Sun Birthday," Winter Solstice Eve. Joining international sexologist and Bonobo Way author Dr. Susan Block live in-studio will be one of our favorite porn star power couples, veteran creators of "Sex Across America," Alexandra Silk, a.k.a. "Silky", perhaps best-known as the Bailiff on Playboy TV's "Sex Court," and her award-winning director/hubby Luc Wylder, as well as Xbiz Awards 2016 nominee Alex Chance, "adult artist and erotic muse" Lola Luscious and the return of therapeutic clinical sexologist Dr. Dawn Michaels ACS. Also in studio will be our beloved Dayton Rains—award-winning porn star as well as webcam and phone therapist with the Institute—and DrSuzy.Tv show producer Biz Bonobo, a.k.a. Elizabeth Aston. 

"Xmas, Sexmas, Saturnalia & Winter Solstice" will broadcast LIVE from Bonoboville on The Dr. Susan Block Show this Saturday night, December 19th, 2015, 10:30pm-Midnight PST. It can be viewed on DrSuzy.Tv or in Bonoboville where you can also chat live in the Bonoboville Studio.

Click Here to RSVP to attend this show in the “Speakeasy” studio audience or call 626.461.5950. Studio doors open at 9:30 pm. Studio Members FREE. Membership Has Its Pleasures.

Call-In During the Live Broadcast: 1.866.289.7068. Tweet comments and questions @RadioSUZY1 and @DrSuzy. Listen Free or Watch the live show at DrSusanBlock.Tv. This week’s live broadcast sponsored by Sybian, Agwa Cocoa Leaf Liqueur, Ron de Jeremy Rum, Condomania, Glyde America Condoms and JuxLeather

A little 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."

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.

This Holiday Season, GIVE THE BONOBO WAY! CLICK HERE TO READ OUR RECENT RAVE REVIEWS & INTERVIEWS

Make 2015 your Year of the Bonobo and get your copy of The Bonobo Way: The Evolution of Peace through Pleasure.

Powerhouse Academic Publisher WILEY-BLACKWELL releases the new International Encyclopedia of Human Sexuality with sex expert Dr. Susan Block contributing articles in Fetish, Phone Sex, Cuckolding, Spanking & Striptease 

 Los Angeles, California: May 21, 2015—The Dr. Susan Block Institute is proud to announce that its director, Susan M. Block, Ph.D., is among the top contributors to a historic work on sex and culture that sets a new standard in knowledge-based academic publishing: The Wiley-Blackwell International Encyclopedia of Human Sexuality.

Like the Wiley-Blackwell International Encyclopedias of Human Evolution, Health, Political Thought, Literature, Sociology, Social and Political Movements, Globalization and many more, the new Human Sexuality Encyclopedia is a “comprehensive A-Z reference” that will be utilized in schools, universities, libraries, research centers and other learning institutions around the world. An online version of the Encyclopedia is available, as well as the three-volume print set.

Edited by distinguished Professors of Anthropology, Patricia Whelehan and Anne Bolin, with contributions from an international team of top scholars and practitioners, the Encyclopedia of Human Sexuality contains “over 500 entries that define sexuality from a broad biocultural perspective and show the diversity of human sexual behavior and belief systems… ranging from short definitions of scientific, clinical, cultural, and colloquial terms to extended explorations of major concepts…[covering] 13 key areas of content, from clinical medicine and body modification to the language of sexuality and the history of sexology.”

Dr. Susan Block wrote three of the Human Sexuality Encyclopedia’s “extended explorations” on “Sexual Fetishes,” “Phone Sex” and “Striptease.” She also wrote two shorter entries on “Spanking” and “Cuckolding.”

“These subjects are close to my heart and work as a sex therapist,” says Dr. Block, a graduate of Yale University with a Ph.D. from the Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality. “They’re rarely defined in an academic framework, so I’m honored to be able to present them to students, scholars and researchers in this great compilation. Sex education takes a leap forward with the publication of the Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia.”

Susan M. Block, Ph.D., a.k.a. “Dr. Suzy,” best-known for her groundbreaking HBO specials, is a leading international champion of sexual freedom and sex education, as well as a pioneering advocate for the preservation of the inspirational and highly endangered bonobos. An award-winning author, her latest, highly acclaimed book is The Bonobo Way: The Evolution of Peace through Pleasure. Every Saturday night, she hosts The Dr. Susan Block Show live, and she is the founder of the new social media site Bonoboville.com, as well as one of the founders of Sex Week at Yale in 2002.But she’ll never quit her “day job” as a sex therapist in private practice. As director of the Dr. Susan Block Institute for the Erotic Arts & Sciences, she is advisor, educator and therapist to thousands of men, women and couples around the world, from the CEOs of Silicon Valley to the sheiks of Riyadh, Hollywood stars, Washington politicians and the folks-next-door, helping people to express, explore, enjoy and take responsibility for their sexual lives.