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
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.
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.
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.
team writing fighting
I had very little support from any feminist organization. But fortunately my post-marital lover, who had bailed out of academia over political in-fighting, was a one-man support team. He was the one who pushed me to write.
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.
bisexual
I consider myself a lesbian, but I'm a bisexual lesbian.
birthday exercise vegetables
I consider the 70s to be the youth of old age. So all you women out there who are afraid of getting older, just keep your orgasms in place, eat a lot of vegetables, take exercise, and you'll be fine.
men dinner breasts
Men are hung up on breasts. They're looking at the titty dinner. It's pathetic.
envy want might
The first thing the male establishment wants to control is uterus and birth. You might call it womb envy. But even worse is the fact we are still using the male model of sexual response for women.
sex people dinner
If you go out to dinner with someone, you find out what they prefer in food. We ought to be able to have a conversation to find out what people prefer when it comes to sex.