Memoirs

Yesterday, my Darling Puppy Phineas moved to Rowayton Ct. He will be living with my dear friend and colleague Dr. Joanna Whitcup who has a private practice there. When my this precious little puppy moved in with Eric and me, I was suffering with an attack of Sciatica and in serious pain. Most of the dog walking and efforts at paper training fell on Eric because I was crippled. Several reality waves hit me as I tried to cope with this tiny but lively addition to my life. Phineas was a furry ball of energy, a constant distraction and also irresistible.

Look at that tongue!  Yes, Betty is really bad and that's why we love her.  The man in the pic is Tex Williams who wanted Betty to endorse his vibrator "The Prelude".  However, his vibe would heat up and the woman had to use pot holders to hold them in Betty's bodysex groups.  Her response to his offer, "I wouldn't endorse that piece of shit".  I think the pic says it all.

So we're still in Beverly Hills soaking up the sun.  We didn't do our regular video podcast because we spent the whole day shooting the perveratti and their "Best Betty Story" for our documentary on Betty's life.  Then we had dinner with Dana Dane of Erocktavision and plotted our next Sex Skills Series.  I'm getting ready to watch one of Dana's lebsian erotica dvds right now....have to borrow the Hitachi from Betty's room.

This was written by Eric Francis - we read our horoscope every day at his site planetwaves.com:

It was indeed Betty Dodson, the author of Sex for One, who gave women permission to possess, love and experience the clitoris. She loves this photo and I'm sharing it with you on the occasion of her 80th birthday. (Much gratitude to the model, Tori, for her generous offering.) Betty sometimes goes by the name Clitty Ann and does a little puppet routine with her pussy. She has been teaching about sex for quite and she does it every day. You might almost think she was...sent here.

Just a few flickr pics: Betty's 80th Bday. It was my camera - I only took a few because I was having such a good time. Perse took more and I'll post them tomorrow.

Rae Allen wrote this poem for Betty and read it aloud at her bday celebration last night - a sit down dinner for 40 people:

Is Betty really Bad? She has and is living an enviable life... An estimable artist... As an enviable sexual adventurer... As a great and loving friend to some, and a great and loving lover to others...

And as always, as a grand lover of life and living... As a breaker and wrecker of boundaries, sexual moral and philosophical.

She glides thru vaginal and penile joys and worries on the wings of perfumed knowledge...

She strews the world with sweetness, humor and deep affection

She knows all and all of us and all about us

Is Betty bad really? I call this goodness monumental and all giving good good goodness! no regrets, nothing undone - all done.

Just good, good, good, good, Betty

From Beverly Hills with love - the story of how Betty went from fine artist to sex educator:

Very few women at the sex parties were having orgasms. After the men were petered out, the women would all end up in Betty's bedroom playing with vibrators. That got Betty thinking about Bodysex workshops. Something had to change...

Betty ran into the sexual double standard head first when she tried to be a woman in an open relationship. There still is no female equivalent to "bachelor". It was during this period that Betty verbalized the concept that women are responsible for their own orgasms.

The women created genital show & tell. And the masturbation ritual started as a sexual fantasy. Betty ran Bodysex Groups for 25 years and she's finally telling the story of how it all happened.