The LA Times ran a piece in its Wednesday edition about the Dr. Block raid, along with an interview with Dr. Block.
Writes the Times: "Across the Internet and on the local public access channels, Susan Block is known as 'the love doctor'--a hot-talking sex therapist who titillates her audiences with frank discussions about sex.
But late Saturday, just before she was about to tape her weekly sex advice show, Block said she was shocked speechless by what she saw as she walked out of her dressing room. There in the middle of her studio and erotic museum in a downtown Los Angeles warehouse were two dozen heavily armed LAPD officers who had arrived, they said, after receiving a report of a robbery in progress."
Dr. Block tells the Times that she was afraid she was going to get shot. Block was wearing lingerie and a robe at the time, the robe opening up when she threw her hands into the air. She said one of the officers recognized her as the person who interviews poeople on a bed. Block along with nine studio employees were frisked. Even though there were convinced that no suspects were to be found, the police, according to Block stayed and called in reinforcements amiong the vice squad
"'Once they realized there was no robbery, they observed what appeared to be possible violations--prostitution and / or the distribution of obscene material," Sgt. John Pasquariello, a department spokesman told the Times. "They decided to investigate it further."
According to what Max Lobkowicz tells the Times, another bust which took place two years ago prompted a move downtown. Joe Gunn, executive director of the Police Commission, said a complaint against the officers filed by Lobkowicz is being investigated.
On the other hand, Lobkowicz was quick to point out that the police were both polite and apologetic for disrupting the show which did go on even though her interview with Ginger Lynn was an hour late.
"It was very unsettling," said Block who calls herself the "Martha Stewart of sex."
