Betty Dodson's blog

Love The Onion. If only it were true.

I didn't hear Obama's speech in full but I read parts. He is ready to push through a public option if we the people get behind him. Again I repeat, change comes from the people not from politicians. Please click this link and sign the petition to send Congress a clear message that we want health care reform. We still have a chance to get this done NOW!

My friend and colleague Marty Klein does it again with his criticism of sex self-help books. I've put my name on hundreds of friends self-help books and have written a few myself. Rarely do these books change people's sex lives into roaring pornified partnersex with screaming mind blowing orgasms. That last one, "Mind blowing orgasms" is my favorite one to hate.

My books "Liberating Masturbation" and it's follow up "Sex For One" simply gave permission so people could enjoy sex with themselves without guilt. That's the best most authors of sex books can do. Give permission and inspire, not promise all that other crap!  Here's the entire piece from Marty Klein's newsletter Sexual Intelligence:

While it's entertaining to watch fashion and fluff and essays about new puppy's, Bill Moyers is saying it loud and clear on health care reform:

Bill Moyer on Bill Mahr

Bill Moyer for truthout.org "Uncivil Discourse"

And let's all bless Michael Moore and his blatant honesty. His new film Capitalism: A Love Story debuts tonight at the Venice Film Festival. Will some of our numbed out Americans get the picture now? Otherwise we will have to storm the capitol and physically throw the bums out. Count me in!

I just got a tea cup Schnauzer. His previous owner Daniel said his name was taken from the Harry Potter books: Phineas Nigellus, the Slytherin Headmaster at Hogwarts. The first time I saw this sweet 5 month old creature, he was laying on his back in a young girls arms riding in the elevator. When I looked into his tiny black button eyes, it was love at first sight and I asked, "What planet are you from little one?" That's when she said he was for sale at a price that was prohibitive. l later discovered she was living with Daniel who bought Phineas in Texas for $2,500 and was selling him for 3 grand to cover costs of shots and doggie equipment. He'd recently moved into my building and although he loved his little dog, he had two large Mancoon cats that Phineas would not leave alone. Daniel feared the big cats were going to hurt the little guy so he put a for sale sign in the mail room. I resigned myself to seeing Phineas in the elevator or lobby with his new owner from time to time.

If you or anyone you know has a contact at the UN, please put them in touch with me. Since I started masturbating when I was 5 years old and ended up teaching adult women how to begin to masturbate as adults, I'd like to offer some of my experience and expertise in this area. After all, how many adults do you know who have devoted a large part of their lives to the fine art of Selfloving?

A June report from the United Nations Economic, Social and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has recommended that children as young as five should receive mandatory sexual education that would teach even pre-kindergarteners about masturbation and topics like gender violence.

The 98-page report offers a universal lesson plan for kids ranging in age from 5-18, an "informed approach to effective sex, relationships" and HIV education that they say is essential for "all young people."

More information on circumcision from David Harsanyi. I have never really liked or trusted the CDC but now I'm convinced they are in league with the devil with their campaign for universal circumcision.  Back to goddess worship if you must pray to some one or thing. I have always felt more secure asking the divine female energy for support. The divine male energy is so busy going off to the next war and what better preparation than the attack on a helpless baby just to get the pain going at a young age:

Forget death panels. If you're really interested in putting a stop to the public option (and some truly entertaining town hall meetings), let's talk circumcision panels.

On The Issues Magazine's piece on society's strict definition of male and female got me thinking about my own struggle dealing with gender identity.  When I was living in SF on Castro Street in the early seventies, I first encountered the concept of androgyny. Not the idea of being both male and female; hermaphroditic, but a person with both masculine and feminine characteristics in terms of behaviour.

I embraced the idea of dressing more in masculine attire and shaved my head. I was often treated like a "little guy." I learned a lot about what we then called "sex roles" that are based upon social constructs. Sex roles became gender, a word I still don't like as well as sex roles. I talk about this in my memoir so stay tuned.

I'm beginning to realize that MoveOn is our new barricade against health insurance companies who have hired mobs to disrupt town hall meetings. We are now 5 million strong and remain the voices of reason. Let's all pitch in and support these grassroots actions.

I'm so angry at Obama for caving but then Carlin reminds me that we've been trying to get health care reform since Truman. Now with our country controlled by the big corporations and we have become a corportracacy (fascism in other words) I think he's probabley doing the best he can. Change comes from the people not from government. That's where MoveOn comes in. They keep me from sinking into a deep depression over what's happening to America with all the fear mongering running rampant. Shame on the Republican party that now represents religous extremists and greedy corporations. Shame!

1. "Former exec: Insurers fomenting town hall chaos," The Hill, August 12, 2009

2. "Townhall Mobs—Brought to you by Big Oil and Dirty Coal," The Huffington Post, August 7, 2009

3. "Tom in Your Town Hits Charlottesville," NBC, August 11, 2009

4. "Sestak health-care meeting a spoonful of sugar," Philadelphia Enquirer, August 13, 2009

5. "Pelosi Protesters, Including Kid In Stroller, Compare Obama to Hitler," The Huffington Post, August 8, 2009

If you are interested in the real story behind our healthcare debate. Here it is: Amy Goodman interviews a former top insurance industry executive. He was the spokesperson for CIGNA one of the largest for profit insurance corporations. He has turned whistleblower and explains exactly what they are doing.

If you're not into reading here's the 10 minute video from Democracy Now.

Finally, here's the complete deconstruction of the Right Wing lies on the health insurance bill.

Divorce cakes are all the rage.  Nothing like a hit of reality in this romantic love addicted culture of ours. One thing I found interesting: none of the cakes showed the guy kicking the woman out. That's unreal too.

But then most men cheat from time to time while "The little woman" is minding the kids, running the house, shopping and cooking meals. The category "running the house" is huge so I won't go into that. She doesn't even have time for a little afternoon sex play. One of the good things about women working is making connections in the office (thank you Helen Gurly Brown) and at business meetings.

If all of America could hear and understand Keith's comments on health care, Big Pharma and mean-spirited Blue Dogs, they would storm Congress with baseball bats, pitch forks and Magic Wand vibrators. We will throw the bums out at mid-term elections. Meanwhile people are suffering needlessly.

Chip Rowe, Playboy's Advisor interviewed me last Monday July 27 at the Sirius Studios. Sorry, but Sirius which is pronounced Serious is a creepy name but the space is cool. So is Chip Rowe. He's younger than I expected, early forties and really cute. Chip is very knowledgeable about sex which is fairly rare in the male species. Too many just want to spread their seed. In the seventies we called it "masturbating inside vaginas."

Eighty years is a lot to cover but Chip had done his homework. He began by asking me about Thy Neighbor's Wife, the book by Gay Talese. Then Sandstone and groupsex and my masturbation workshops, especially the few I did for men. We went onto vaginal, clitoral, combination, g-spot, more spots and vibrator orgasms. He gave me the latest issue of Playboy with an article he'd written on the g-spot. Be sure to read it. I must say it's one of the most accessibly written informative well researched article I've come across. Nice going Chip. Call me anytime.

The American people have no idea what is happening to our young men and women sent to Iraq and then come home. We all need to take time to read the words of those who have been there and done the killing! We need to listen to the mothers and wives who make the best effort they can to help their sons, husbands and daughters return to civilian life with no help from our government! America is now in the business of war and war is the heaviest drug available. In the words of one combat soldier:

"It's almost like a religious experience to see a battlefield," he said. "To hear the explosions - to see a person bleeding out and die - see everything on fire and smell the smoke and burning flesh. It makes you truly realize what it is to be alive. Combat is the biggest rush you can have."

I was so angry at Nader for splitting the vote that I dismissed him from my awareness. Now I'm reading everything Ralph puts out because he is once again in his best role as whistle blower. He has the skinny on DC and how those bloated pigs operate and why they block single payer health care.

And, of course, the health care debate all comes down to raising taxes on the rich.  Who knew Rupert Murdoch (behold the face of evil) was behind the Great Tax Con Job?