Betty Dodson
Betty Dodson
Betty Dodsonis an American sex educator. An artist by training, she exhibited erotic art in New York, before pioneering the pro-sex feminist movement, separate from mainstream feminism, which she sees as needlessly political and hostile to men. Dodson’s workshops and manuals encourage women to masturbate, often in groups. Although bisexual herself, she repudiates the labels that define sexuality...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth24 August 1929
children degrees kind
If you tell a child "Don't touch yourself there," they will deal with some kind of sexual problem from then on, to one degree or other.
sex growing-up children
The clitoris is the female sex organ, and the fact that we aren't told that when we were small children is devastating. We grow up with no information about the pleasure center of our body.
college luck sorority
It's just blind luck when a woman is born into a wealthy family and attends the best colleges and joins top sororities.
sex men america
Vaginal penetration only doesn't work for most of us. And we're not all meant to be monogamous either, especially since women are capable of having far more sex than men. Try to get that fact across in America!
sex worried form
Women who come to see me admit that they've never looked at their sex organ; they've never seen their clitoris. Now tell me if that isn't a form of being psychologically genitally mutilated? For them, the clitoris doesn't exist, but we're worried about women in Africa!
mean losing-control joy
The powers that be understand that sexual freedom or liberation with any kind of joy means they are losing control.
running fun taught-us
Women don't run around saying, "Oh, I took a Bodysex workshop, and I had so much fun, and Betty Dodson taught us how to blah blah." They come, they go, and I rarely hear from them again.
dirty teaching thinking
Instead of being a well-known painter, I became everybody's favorite dirty joke. Come to think of it, teaching masturbation skills is pretty weird.
successful years two
When I found out after that first successful exhibition that the gallery wanted me to do another show like the first one, I come out two years later with four 6-foot drawings of classical nudes masturbating. The gallery director flipped the freak out!
art dollars pieces
The galleries are simply corporations in the art world - "Here's a million dollars for this latest piece of crap" - but I'm not about to go along with the gallery system.
brother dad school
Although my Dad was a talented calligrapher and both of my younger brothers were successful, I was the first one in my family to graduate from high school.
sex couple blow
I did large drawings of couples having sex! Men and woman enjoying intercourse and oral sex in a Madison Avenue Gallery? That was the first time I broke a barrier that made me think, some idiot is going to blow my brains out for sure.
hero abortion feminism
The women working at abortion clinics are really on the front lines and the true heroes of feminism.
war men knows
We are at war with men, and most women don't even know it.