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
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My entire career has been confronted with censorship. You can't talk about masturbation in America without confronting censorship.
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I've spent the past six years with a young man, which was a nice break, dipping back into heterosexuality again from all my time with women.
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If we could grow up knowing that the genitals are beautiful parts of our bodies, we'd be proud, we wouldn't have shame, we wouldn't have sexual guilt.
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Never touch your clitoris dry, never. I can't emphasize enough lubrication.
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It was so astonishing for women to sit there looking at images of female genitals. When we took those photographs, I got body rushes.
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It's just blind luck when a woman is born into a wealthy family and attends the best colleges and joins top sororities.
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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!
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A monogamous marriage and family is what some women want - but not all of us. We are mostly doing serial monogamy anyway.
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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!
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The powers that be understand that sexual freedom or liberation with any kind of joy means they are losing control.
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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.
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I'm fully aware had I stayed with my art, I would be well known, respected and most likely rich.
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Art is all about becoming a name, a brand; it isn't based on talent or creativity.
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It was easy to leave the art world after I found out that it was just another corporation. When they told me I had to create the same thing, I rebelled.