LOS ANGELES—Sexologist Dr. Susan Block (Dr. Suzy) delivered her sixth annual "State of the Sexual Union" (SOTSU) address on "Active Radio," hosted by Hartley Pleshaw on WCAP-AM 980. Broadcast live on February 14, it is now available across multiple platforms.
Her SOTSU 2026 is a powerful proclamation of love, sex-positivity, sorrow, humor, responsibility, and resilience. It weaves her personal grief over the recent passing of her beloved husband Max , with a scathing critique of current societal traumas, prescribing “therapy for all."
“This is what so many people have been waiting for all year,” Hartley shared. “And it couldn't come at a more appropriate time.”
For the past five years, Bonobo Way author, therapist, and media personality (best known for her HBO specials) Dr. Suzy has delivered her SOTSU after the U.S. President’s State of the Union (SOTU). This year, she went first.
“I see no reason to wait for U.S. President Donald Trump to deliver more lies and abuse to the spirit of our country, including our sexual spirit,” explained Dr. Suzy.
“If anyone in his Family Circus of clowns, thieves, traitors, fixers, censors, cover-uppers, close relatives, and ammosexual incels had a sliver of integrity, he wouldn't even be giving SOTU 2026," she added. "He would be in therapy – mandated by his prison warden.” SOTSU 2026 takes on the current intersection of politics and sexuality, including the release of the infamous Epstein files, ICE kidnappings, and the "censorship industrial complex."
“Victims, perpetrators – and observers – all of us have been traumatized by Epstein, ICE and the Internet,” noted Dr. Suzy. Her prescription for healing from this collective trauma is resistance to tyranny, official accountability, free speech, plus real-life counseling and therapy for all.
Returning to the bonobos as models of peace through pleasure, female empowerment, male well-being, sharing, caregiving, and even mourning, SOTSU 2026 ended on an upbeat note. Check out Dr. Suzy’s 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, and 2021 “State of the Sexual Union” (SOTSU) addresses.
