audio by artist betty carlin

Betty has looked at 1,000s and 1,000s of vulvas.  We decided to go through her sex coaching process blow by blow.  We started with genital show & tell and then got into the story of how Betty's mom had a porn pussy.  Highlights: sometimes she has to do a bit of grooming to get to the clit, dangling inner lips skip a generation, and you must claim your sex organ.  

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It's summer...time to take off your panties, let your pussy breathe, and listen to the story of Betty's Split Beaver Slideshow for Femininists & Sex Machine workshop at NOW's Sexuality Conference back in '73.   Oh, and we invented the Dodson & Ross pussy cup vibrator during the podcast ;)

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For 25 years, Betty Dodson ran nude masturbation workshops for women.  They were the outgrowth of group sex and feminist consciousness raising groups.  She was paid to listen to women's sex lives, view their genitals, and share their orgasms.  Having "sex with the natives" earned her a PhD in sexology.

We started with why gay male porn is hot and hit on sexual power dynamics, how Betty became the first feminist pornographer, and whether feminist politics and sexual pleasure can exist side-by-side.

And then we had the idea for the Women's Sex Hit Squad.  Betty says I can wear leather thigh-high boots ;)

In the 60's "hooking up" was called casual sex.  Betty thought that if men could have casual sex and orgasms then a woman could do the same.  Her decision to simply f*ck for fun but also have her own orgasm too, lead to her the enunciation of the feminist notion that a woman is responsible for her own orgasms.  Thank you clit stim with vaginal penetration.

Hedonism is the philosophy that pleasure is the highest good.  The year was 1966 and the sexual revolution had begun....listen to Betty describe her first orgy, how new panties are a must, and why we fantasize about Centaurs (half man/half horse). 

Here's the picture: Betty in a gold trench coat, black laced-up boots, and a riding crop on the subway platform on the way to her debut art exhibition - The Love Picture show.  The inspiration was the amazing mutually-orgasmic sex she was having.  She just had to paint it. 

Betty's 80th Bday party was the event of the season.  It was "The Perveratti" at their finest: Nina Hartley, Lou Paget, Carol Queen, and Dana Dane to name a few.   Oh, and Nina Hartley bit my neck so I flashed her my cookie.  And then we came home to Phineas and Betty got jealous because he humped me :(

Betty took on genital shame back in the 70s when she presented her vulva slideshow at the NOW Sexuality Conference (1973).  Then, she took on genital shame once again in the 90s with her online genital art gallery.  It's time to embrace our sex organ and our "pussy power".  

Becky Chalker (author of the Clitoral Truth) stopped by Betty's and she told us the story of how the clitoris got lost.  The Greeks knew that men and women shared similar genital anatomy...Leonardo Di Vinci drew detailed illustrations of the clitoris...it wasn't until the 18th Century that the clitoris disappeared from the textbooks.

Our clitoral system is very complete.  We get erections just like you guys ;)

As Betty said, "it's about my finger on my clit".  Partners only enhance your orgasm because no one knows your sex organ better than you.  But we do love their fingers and there's nothing like staying at the opening ;)  Did I mention that Betty shared her new fantasy game?

It all started with our "Manual Skills" shoot (the video is live Manual Skills I & Manual Skills II).  Filming the basics on how to touch your vulva with an all female crew was intoxicating...then we went right into Halloween.  Listen to all the sordid details.