LOS ANGELES—Following her 2021 and 2022 "State of the Sexual Union" (SOTSU) addresses, sexologist Dr. Susan Block (a.k.a. Dr. Suzy), returned to Active Radio with host Hartley Pleshaw on WCAP-AM 980 in the Massachusetts Valley on Feb. 25 to deliver a new address for 2023.
Listen to Dr. Suzy’s "2023 State of the Sexual Union" address on WCAP-AM 980 here.
Opined Hartley Pleshaw by way of introduction, "We had Joe Biden’s State of the Union last week. We had Vladimir Putin’s address. Well, those were just amateurs. Today you’re going to get what we consider to be the most important State of the Union—State of the Sexual Union, I should say—address of 2023, the one and only Dr. Susan Block… sexologist supreme."
The two then discussed a variety of topics within the "meeting ground of sex, politics, and culture" which Pleshaw says, "I believe [Dr. Susan Block] covers and handles better than anyone in the present contemporary scene."
At the climax of the show, Block delivered the heart of her 2023 SOTSU address, her "I Have a Fantasy" speech, inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King’s 1963 "I Have a Dream" speech, updated for 2023.
Some of the subjects discussed include:
- War: Right after Block’s 2022 SOTSU address, Russia bombed Ukraine, and now America and most of Europe are at war with Russia, putting much of the world on a warpath which is the opposite of the Bonobo Way, the path of peace through pleasure. She responded with "Make Kink Not War" at her Yale Reunion, DomCon, and on FDR.
- Censorship by Bot: The "Artificial Intelligence" that terminated "The Dr. Susan Block Show" channel on YouTube. Nevertheless, she says that free speech—in terms of noncorporate sex education and political expression—is still being unfairly censored.
- Real Sex: Pleshaw dubs Block the "Official Sexologist of Active Radio" and commends her recent appearance in Vice TV’s Sex before the Internet episode 5, which explores how HBO’s Real Sex revolutionized the portrayal of sex on television.
- DeSantis: Prompted by Pleshaw’s questions about the Florida Governor’s "Don’t Say Gay" programs, coupled with his 2024 U.S. presidential ambitions, Block delves into the personality traits of Ron DeSantis and his personal record when he was a CIA lawyer stationed at Guantanamo prison as described in an interview conducted by Mike Prysner with one of DeSantis’ former prisoners.
- Trump: Pleshaw asks Block to address sexual conservatives’ support for Trump, to which she replies, "In a word, it’s hypocrisy," then talks about how a libertine pushed through a U.S. Supreme Court of the Religious Right to rule a citizenry that’s less religious than ever.
- Drag: When Pleshaw asks Block her views on drag queens, she discusses the history of "drag" from prehistoric times to Shakespeare to now, and how closeted crossdressing, bisexual desires, erotophobia, and shame mix with Rightwing politicians’ cynical and divisive approach to this "culture wedge" issue, creating a very dangerous anti-Drag Queen/anti-trans crusade that has triggered mass shootings and other violence.
- "I Have a Fantasy": Block delivers her latest rendition of "I Have a Fantasy," inspired by MLK’s "I Have a Dream."
Click here for Dr. Susan Block’s "2023 I Have A Fantasy" speech as reprised on DrSusanBlock.com, FDR, Facebook, Instagram, Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, Podbean, Soundcloud, Pandora, and IHeartRadio.
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