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Susan Block, Ph.D. Biography

Part philosopher, half sex symbol, half humorist, and part-time horny housewife, Dr. Susan Block is a world-famend sex educator, as effectively because the host of HBO's "Radio Sex Tv," a best-promoting writer, award-winning essayist, filmmaker, radio and cable Tv host, syndicated columnist, creator of the best-selling "Dr. Susan Block Video Encyclopedia of Sex & Fetishes," creator of "The 10 Commandments of Pleasure" (St. Martin's Press), proprietress of Dr. Suzy's Speakeasy, director of the Speakeasy Gallery (the one everlasting erotic artwork collection in Southern California) and the Dr. Susan Block Institute for the Erotic Arts & Sciences. She additionally operates an award-successful 2,000-page web site (drsusanblock.com, plus an Internet radio/Tv station at radiosuzy1.com), and she is a dedicated sex therapist in private observe.

Dr. Block's academic background has been both rigorous and various. In highschool, she was editor-in-chief of the college newspaper, president of the Philadelphia Model United Nations, star of the highschool play, captain of the Debating Team, winner of several American history awards, together with the DAR, a member of the National Honor Society, and gained admission to all the Ivy League colleges, choosing to enter Yale University.

Within the summer of her junior yr, she traveled by Israel, learning historic and modern Middle Eastern culture and Kabbalah, and engaged on a kibbutz exterior Jerusalem. Little did she know that her studies in world historical past and comparative religion would supply a background for her eventual career as a sex educator. She graduated magna cum laude from Yale with Distinction in Theater Studies, where she was privileged to work with Robert Brustein, Meryl Streep, the late nice Honey Cones, Nikos Psacharapolous and members of the Firesign Theater, among others. At the age of 20, she traveled by means of India, Nepal, Pakistan and Afghanistan, finding out Yoga, Kama Sutra, Tantra and other facets of Asian tradition. She spent the summer of her junior 12 months at Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado, learning poetry with Alan Ginsburg, William Burroughs and Gregory Corso on the Jack Keroac School of Disembodied Poetics, and Tibetan-type Tantric Sex with Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche.

After graduating from Yale in 1977, she worked as a "City Mime" for the new Haven City Council, taught "troubled" teenagers to precise themselves by means of theater, studied with R.G. Davis and different members of the San Francisco Mime Troupe, and toured with New England Commedia, performing commedia d'elle arte-style adaptations of Tartuffe plays. She also practiced Zen Buddhism and Kundalini Yoga.

In 1980, she moved to California, and continued her studies at UC Berkeley, San Francisco State University and More University, traveled via Europe performing commedia and studying historical past, theater, artwork and philosophy at numerous institutes, together with the University of Padova and the Sorbonne, and obtained her doctorate in Philosophy from Pacific Western University in 1991. During this time, she worked as a contract writer, penning options for such publications as the brand new Haven Advocate, Connecticut Magazine, San Francisco Magazine, the Bay Guardian, the Berkeley Monthly, the LA Weekly and Los Angeles Magazine.

Her first ebook, Advertising for Love (Morrow: 1984) became the definitive book on private advertisements, and her second e book, Being a Woman (Random House: 1988) which she wrote with psychologist Dr. Toni Grant, became a finest-vendor. She also revealed a number of brief tales, including three in Pleasures, Erotic Interludes, and Erotic Escapades, edited by psychologist Dr. Lonnie Barbach.

During this time, she also read her poetry in many venues throughout California, and arranged several LA metropolis-wide poetry occasions with legendary poet/efficiency artist Bob Flannigan and popular LA poet Wanda Coleman, among others. She also climbed to the top of the Golden Gate Bridge and Bay Bridge with the legendary Suicide Club of San Francisco. Around this time (the mid-80s), she additionally started her private therapy apply, by which she counseled particular person women and men, in addition to couples and groups in matters of love, work and sexuality, in line with her philosophy of "ethical hedonism."

She also got into radio. After launching her first radio present on KIEV, sponsored by the LA Weekly, she met her Prince, Maximillian R. Lobkowicz, sold him an advert for her radio present, and fell in love. There was only one hitch: He was married to any person else. They turned friends and collaborators, producing a sequence of legendary Radio Salons and audio tapes, together with Dr. Susan Block's Bedtime Stories for Adults Only, that dramatized the erotic emotions they dared not specific in actual life. She additionally wrote an advice column for his journal, the Brentwood Bla Bla. As well as, Block and Lobkowicz organized LA's first trendy Art Salons, featuring nice local artists, poets, chefs and designers. Later (in 1991), they made Desert Susan, a sequence of audiotapes for the troops of Desert Storm.

In 1991, when Lobkowicz separated from his then-wife, he and Block embarked upon their Great Love Affair in earnest. They married in 'ninety two in Philly, under the aegis of Rabbi Gerald Wolpe and Rabbi Ivan Caine, each of whom had had a profound have an effect on upon Block's youth. Lobkowicz began producing Block's weekly call-in radio program, now referred to as "The Dr. Susan Block Show" on KFOX, encouraging her to specific the extra sensuous sides of her personal personality. Having all the time been discouraged from brazenly expressing her sexuality by past lovers, Block's persona shortly blossomed into the unflinchingly erotic, witty and sensible "Mistress of the Airwaves" that she is today. Lobkowicz also started filming his wife as she hosted her radio present in the KFOX studios. Thus started the cinematic process that led to The Dr. Susan Block Show on tv as well as Radio Sex Tv with Dr. Susan Block on HBO.

Seven years later, Dr. Susan Block has turn out to be an internationally renowned sex educator and filmmaker, an award-winning philosopher (winner of the bronze award in the great American Think-Off nationwide philosophy debate and declared one of four of "America's Greatest Thinkers" of 1998), and an HBO star with #1-rated specials (Radio Sex Tv) and recurring segments on Real Sex. Collaborating along with her publisher-husband, she has expanded her literary work with their very own publication, Dr. Susan Block's Journal, which seems occasionally in print and every day on their website at drsusanblock.com. She additionally writes a monthly column on sex and politics that is syndicated in other magazines. Her e-book, The ten Commandments of Pleasure (St. Martin's Press: 1996), was excerpted in Cosmopolitan, American Woman and the British Sun, has been critically acclaimed (amazon.com offers it the utmost five star rating), and is now being printed in countries throughout Europe, the UK, Asia and South America. She is presently writing a brand new guide on her philosophy of moral hedonism.

Block and Lobkowicz proceed to make breakthrough tv with the weekly Dr. Susan Block Show on cable Tv and the Internet, boasting an enormous cult following. Dr. Block attracts upon her own rich tutorial background to current completely different sexual topics from historic, psychological, anthropological, biological, sociological, mystical, theatrical and literary points of view. She draws upon her expertise and training in each Western and Eastern cultures. She helps callers and guests with their questions, issues, fantasies and fetishes. She teaches both men and women to have greater orgasms and higher relationships. She also opinions numerous current events, movies, plays and books pertaining to sexuality, and talks with celebrities and others in her well-known "broadcast bed" stuffed with pillows, vibrators, whips, dildos, vulva puppets and different erotic props. She broadcasts the present dwell every Saturday night on her webpage at radiosuzy1.com (with over 80,000 listeners per month). At any time, guests may view and/or hear dozens of archived episodes of The Dr. Susan Block Show on the location.

Tom Quinn of Entertainment Today calls this system "a frank, funny, considerate, sensual romp by means of every part you ever needed to know about intercourse and have been delighted that someone lastly requested." "Brilliant, sexy, intellectual," writes Art Kunkin of the LA Free Press. "Susan is so damn intelligent it virtually scares me," exclaims sex pioneer Betty Dodson. "Dr. Suzy has an ever-growing cult following below her garter belt," says Dale Brasel in Detour. "Why? Unlike Dr. Ruth, you can really imagine she's had-and continues to be having-sex. Good intercourse." "Dr. Susan Block is a modern day Cleopatra," writes Richard Rappaport in Soma. "The response to her present has been, properly, orgasmic."

Her two half-hour specials on HBO, Radio Sex Tv and Radio Sex Tv-2: Off the Dial, both scored the very best Nielsen ratings for the day in all of pay cable Tv, each reaching about 2.5 million households on their debut nights, with a mixed viewership of over 20 million people. Cara Jepsen's assessment within the Illinois Entertainer sums up the fans' perception of Radio Sex Tv on HBO: "Dr. Suzy provides sex and relationship recommendation that is friendly and direct fairly than condescendingcombining her open Annie Sprinkle-like sexuality and penchant for lingerie and intercourse toyswith the no-nonsense chutzpah of Dr. RuthDefinitely pro-female without being anti-male." "Radio Sex Tv sure beats an evening of The Tonight Show!" says Denis D. O'Leary in the Weekly Alibi. Dr. Block additionally seems frequently (and all the time to top scores) on HBO's Real Sex, her next segment scheduled for November, 2000 on Real Sex 27. She can also be a member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.

Her video collection, Dr. Susan Block's Encyclopedia of Sex & Fetishes, has gained important reward and worldwide attention. Ellen Thompson of AVN calls her "the '90s Masters and JohnsonDr. Suzy presents simple, inventive and informative ways to assist us all get alongDealing with a wide range of erotic subjects, Block's straightforward-going, playful demeanor places all at ease." The topics of the movies vary from fundamental technique (Foreplay) to shopper curiosity (Vibrators & Other Lovers), from fetish (Spanking For Adults Only) to social commentary (The new Horny Housewife) and political satire (Kenneth W. Starr: A Pornographer for Our Times, recommended by Troy Patterson in Entertainment Weekly, and referred to as "one in all the good social satires of our time," by David Hirst of The Australian, in addition to an "amusing exposé of the poisonous undercurrent of repression, prurience and hypocrisy in America's political and psychosexual crisis" by Joe Conason of the NY Observer). Richard Pacheco of Spectator calls the collection a "work of genius I've turn out to be a fan," and Sharon Peters writes in Libido: "Boldly originalDr. Susan Block would not just push the envelope, she is the envelope!"

Not that Dr. Block is always praised. Oh, no. National radio and television discuss present host Dr. Laura Schlessinger known as her a "pseudo-professional porn queen." She has been pejoratively known as "Queen Dildo" by Greg Gaslin in New Times and snidely thought of to be "Little Bo Peep on go away from a French bordello" by Matt LaBash within the conservative Weekly Standard.

She has had her troubles not solely with the press, however with the police. On January 31, 1998, in the midst of an episode of The Dr. Susan Block Show in which Dr. Block and the Blockettes presented a Ken Starr lookalike with the 1998 "Pornographer of the Year" award, all of a sudden, with out warning, Dr. Block's residence/studio (the Villa Piacere or "Pleasure House") was invaded by about 20 armed members of the LAPD. Neither Block nor Lobkowicz nor anybody else was ever charged with something. In fact, they have been breaking no laws. So why did the LAPD conduct the invasion? We'll by no means know. Perhaps as a result of they assumed that anybody having as a lot fun as everybody seems to have on The Dr. Susan Block Show have to be doing one thing illegal. Or perhaps that was the only method that certain police officers thought they could get into the show. Many cops are massive fans. Dr. Block's studios and galleries have been once more invaded frivolously and without a warrant by LAPD on February 26, 2000 (For information on the current raid, see our LAPD web page).

Despite the heat (and, to some extent, due to it), Dr. Block continues broadcasting, spreading her message of ethical hedonism and helping callers and visitors to deal with their sex lives, in addition to venturing out to give the occasional lecture or seminar, addressing such teams because the Young Presidents Organization (YPO), Mensa, The Lifestyles Conventions and plenty of colleges and universities, including her alma mater Yale. She can also be interviewed with some frequency as a celebrity expert on human sexuality on numerous local, nationwide and worldwide Tv, radio (usually on KCRW's award-successful "Which Way LA?") and Internet shows, documentary films, and in magazines (repeatedly in Cosmopolitan and Men's Health) and newspapers. And she does occasional efficiency artwork pieces, including Sex Acts with Heilman-C which played to overflow crowds of more than 3000 on the Jack Tilton Gallery in Soho, New York, and her acclaimed Old-Time Gospel-Style Sexual Revival at the Lifestyles Convention and Erotic Art of the Apocalypse Opening.

She maintains an award-profitable Internet web site (drsusanblock.com), which is in the top 1% of all websites in the world. Besides Dr. Susan Block's Journal (which The Women's Guide to Sex on the web calls "a veritable who's-who and what's-what of 'moral hedonism'" stemming from "the beauty and brains of Dr. Susan Block') and dwell and archived broadcasts of her exhibits (radiosuzy1.com), the site features over a thousand pages of sex academic supplies, interviews, images, writings on sex, love, artwork, travel, philosophy, politics, poetry, erotic art (eroticsgallery.com), private ads, electronic guide shop (blockbooks.com), grownup toy catalog, behind-the-scenes photos from her HBO exhibits, e book, film, membership, restaurant and lodge critiques, Dr. Block's Erotic Theater of the Mind (the place viewers can watch her movies) and a wealth of knowledge on the peaceful intercourse practices of bonobo chimpanzees (blockbonobofoundation.org).

An active long-time advocate of these extremely endangered Congolese apes, Dr. Block makes use of the highly sexual, remarkably non-violent and non-male-dominant bonobo "life-style" as a prototype for her philosophy of "peace by means of pleasure." Many of her reveals, books, videos and columns include theories and information on bonobos, and her website on the creatures she calls "the horniest apes on earth" at blockbonobofoundation.org has been acclaimed all through the Internet.

Despite the demands of her energetic media-oriented career, Block maintains her private therapy practice which includes clients from all parts of the globe. About 10 different therapists, experts or prodigies in numerous areas, additionally work with shoppers under her direction in the therapy wing of the Dr. Susan Block Institute. The Institute specializes in treating victims of religious sexual abuse, political indoctrination and mass media distortion. Dr. Block is also a lecturer with the Human Sexuality Department at University of Southern California (USC), and a advisor to the Los Angeles Public Defender's office on capital intercourse crime circumstances.

Recently, Block and Lobkowicz and the multi-cultural, multi-racial employees of the Institute moved from the Villa Piacere within the Hollywood Hills into the 8000 square-foot second floor of a gorgeous previous brick building in downtown LA that was once a real communicate-straightforward in the 1920s. Having usually referred to her show as "Dr. Suzy's Speakeasy," Block and Lobkowicz felt this was the proper city center for his or her erotic instructional dream. A part of the Institute is devoted to non-public therapy, one other section to dam Studios that broadcasts the show, and one other space to BlockFilms which produces the movies. The most recent part of the Institute is the Speakeasy Gallery, LA's only permanent collection of erotic art. The Speakeasy Gallery features erotic artwork in all media, including painting, sculpture, collage, nonetheless pictures and video, created by local and internationally distinguished artists. Block also exhibits just a few of her personal works, together with her video-photograph "Happy Snaps," sensual-satirical "Panties-in-a-Bottle," and her impeachment erotica piece "Hungry Republicans." The Gallery's first show, "Art of The brand new Morality for the next Millennium: Ethical Hedonism," will likely be featured on HBO. The show "Foot Fetish Art" was accompanied by several formal and informal Foot Pleasure Salons which were sensuous extravaganzas. The present exhibit is "Erotic Art of the Apocalypse." Opening night time, Dr. Block carry out one of her renowned, rousing "Old-Time Sexual Revivals." The Speakeasy Gallery's subsequent exhibit, "Sexual Evolution," will raise funds to assist save the bonobos.

Dr. Susan Block may be reached at 213.749.1330.

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