Quotes from Susan Block

The best laid plans may not get you laid the way you planned.

MILFs rule Bonoboville

Trust Kills Lust

The ideal is the enemy of the real.

Peace through Pleasure

Both bonobos and common chimps are as close to humans as foxes are to dogs. I don't know about you, but that's closer than I feel to some of my human relatives.

Love the Earth You Make Love On

Make Sperm Wars, Not Real Wars!

Puritans, like poachers, shoot to kill your inner bonobo

What might happen if we could somehow reorient ourselves toward our more loving, bonobo side rather than our inner mad chimpanzee?

Deep in the heart of the hot, wet African rainforest, there lives a tribe of peacemakers who share a multiplicity of pleasures and make a very special kind of love. South of the sprawling Congo River, in the midst of war-ravaged territory, some 2,000 miles from the arid Ethiopian desert where the oldest human fossils have been found, lies this lush and steamy jungle paradise, the only natural habitat of the bonobo.

In Bonoboville, the females gently but firmly rule the roost, keeping the males gentle and firm

Party like a bonobo!

Though bonobos tend to be a lot hairier than us—and they don't build houses or churches or Pentagons like we do—these primates look and act remarkably human. They often even go beyond the merely "human," and enter the realm of the truly "humane.

Studies are one thing, but then there's just the way bonobos make you feel. They're so "almost-human" on so many levels that science doesn't even know how to test yet. Just look into any bonobo's big brown eyes, and you may well feel like you're connecting with a living version of the Missing Link.

Release your Inner Bonobo

Bonobo discipline involves being schooled in a gentler, more playful fashion.

Meet the bonobos, the rare and marvelous "make love not war" great apes who swing through the trees as well as with each other.

A family meeting is a procedure, and it requires no less skill than performing an operation.

Bonobos are... ambassadors from a primordial world of peace through pleasure, inviting us in one kiss at a time.