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Susan Marilyn Block, Ph.D . is the founder and director of the Block Institute. A magna cum laude graduate with distinction from Yale University who received her doctorate in philosophy with a major in psychology from Pacific Western, Dr. Block is also a world-renowned sexologist, best-selling author, award-winning filmmaker, radio and TV talk show host, columnist, lecturer, commentator, and director of Block Studios, a 17,000 square-foot facility in LA that houses radio, television and Internet broadcast and recording studios, as well as the Block Institute, Dr. Suzy’s Speakeasy and the Speakeasy Gallery of Erotic Art.

A familiar face on HBO's late-night programming through her #1 Nielsen-rated specials, Radio Sex TV with Dr. Susan Block as well as her episodes on Real Sex, she is “one of the nation’s leading sexologists, and a very bright and funny woman to boot,” according to Robert Scheer in The LA Times. She also hosts The Dr. Susan Block Show, called the “'Best of LA' Phone-In Shows” by The LA Weekly, airing nightly on drsusanblock.com Internet radio, and weekly on cable TV stations around the globe, from Hollywood to the Holy Land, where her shows are translated into Hebrew, Arabic and Russian.

Dr. Block’s first book, Advertising for Love (Morrow), forecast the current online dating explosion. Her second book, Being A Woman (Random House), a popularization of her doctoral thesis, which she wrote with pioneer radio psychologist Dr. Toni Grant, became a NY Times bestseller. Her third book, The 10 Commandments of Pleasure (St. Martin’s), has been published in 15 countries (now going into its third English-language printing, and coming soon to Israel, where her cable TV show is a big hit). Creator of the award-winning documentary series, Encyclopedia of Sex, Dr. Block is an active member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. She has been featured in numerous documentaries and appeared on multiple radio and TV shows, from Oprah to Today. Her TV series “Dr. Suzy’s Squirt Salons” was featured in the Barcelona Erotic Film Festival as well as the Cinekink Film Festival, and her music video “Blonde Island: Funk Me” was recently screened as part of the LA Erotica Film Festival. She is now making a documentary with award-winning filmmaker Canaan Brumley (“Ears Open, Eyeballs Click”), San Diego Filmmaker of the Year and First Prize winner at the Marseille Film Festival, called “Speakeasy”

Chosen as one of "America's Greatest Thinkers" by the Great American Think-Off, praised for her “prescient financial advice” by the Wall Street Journal, and dubbed "the Erin Brockovitch of the Bonobo" by Salon, Dr. Block is an active advocate of the highly endangered bonobo chimpanzees, using their very sexual, non-violent and gender-egalitarian "lifestyle" as inspiration for her philosophies of Peace through Pleasure and Ethical Hedonism, her educational site blockbonobofoundation.org and her brand new community site bonoboway.com, as well as her book The 10 Commandments of Pleasure. "Dr. Block's cult status is enormous" writes Lucy Broadbent in Cosmo.

Dr. Block is a visiting lecturer in the Human Sexuality Department at University of Southern California (USC), and at her alma mater Yale University, as well as a coordinator of “Sex Week at Yale” (coming into its fourth season). Also a consultant to the LA Public Defenders' Office (Sex Crimes Division), her columns on sex, health, politics and culture are published in various print and online magazines, from Counterpunch to Perfect 10, besides appearing in her own online Journal, and are touted as "among the most readable to come out of LA" by Steve Mikulan in The LA Weekly.

But she’ll never quit her day job as a sex therapist in private practice. Her primary daily focus is on her telephone sex therapy clients. And don't worry, when you call her for telephone sex therapy, you are NOT on her show, nor are you being recorded in any way (unless you specifically request that we record you). Everything is absolutely private and confidential. Furthermore, as a private client, you will receive her total focused attention. And you can talk with her about absolutely anything . For some idea of topics, see “What Can We Talk About?”

Though a woman of deeply held “Blue Values,” Dr. Block is remarkably popular in the so-called “Red States.” N. Carolina’s QZ Magazine, in a recent cover story on her, calls Dr. Block “a modern-day Queen Esther” and “sex pioneer whose work has put the topic of pleasure on the table, one of the most important social developments on this continent ever, saving us from sexual repression.”

For more information or to speak with Dr. Block personally, please call 213.749.1330.