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Betty Dodson's Bodysex Workshop DVD
Posted on the Jan 05, 2012 by Carlin Ross
Running Time 94 minutes. Bonus Features 20 minutes. DVD is region free, NTSC Betty held her bodysex workshops for over 25 years - they grew out of the consciousness raising groups feminists...
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My Romantic Love Wars: A Sexual Memoir - EBOOK EDITION
Posted on the May 17, 2010 by admin
NOTE: YOU DON'T NEED AN EBOOK READER TO READ BETTY'S BOOK. YOU CAN READ IT ON YOUR COMPUTER - IT'S A PDF FILE.     YOU MUST JOIN THE SITE BEFORE PURCHASING SO YOU CAN DOWNLOAD THE...
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Remembering Sandstone
Posted on the May 20, 2013 by Betty Dodson
I had many good times at Sandstone - a consensual sex club and nudist community on the West Coast in the early 1970s.     Nudity means that we are who we are.  Otherwise, we're in...
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Betty as Fashionista
Posted on the May 07, 2013 by Carlin Ross
We're updating Betty's memoir.  She's added one last chapter - we're including more photos and re-releasing it end of summer.  I didn't think to say in the preface that all the pictures (...
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A Blue Acid Trip
Posted on the Apr 21, 2013 by Carlin Ross
One of our interns has been photographing the 33 canvasses of Betty's art that we have in storage. Here's the first sample. This is a painting Betty did of an acid trip gone bad where her...
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"If I Can Take a Train I'll Go Anywhere"
Posted on the Apr 13, 2013 by Carlin Ross
When Betty announced that we were headed to Bard college to give a lecture, I was kind of surprised. We hadn't lectured since Norway and I didn't think she'd want to take a train to the Hudson...
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Eating My Words
Posted on the Mar 27, 2013 by Betty Dodson
Finally it happened! For the first time I feel my age in my 84th year on Planet Earth. I had to see a doctor to find out why I was experiencing vertigo that caused me to fall on the sidewalk walking...
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Betty Reintroducing the Electric Vibrator as a Pleasure Device
Posted on the Feb 26, 2013 by Carlin Ross
Last week I was rifling through one of Betty's file cabinets when I found several photocopies of pictures from NOW's Sexuality Conference in 1973.  There were pictures of Betty looking at Sheila...
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Betty on PBS Documentary "Makers" Tonight at 8pm
Posted on the Feb 26, 2013 by Carlin Ross
Betty and I decided to watch the 3 hour documentary "Makers - Women Who Make America" - together at her place.  It airs this Tuesday, February the 26th, at 8pm on PBS (check your local listings...
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Betty Doing the Harlem Shake
Posted on the Feb 22, 2013 by Carlin Ross
Betty has her own personal twitter account now @BettyADodson.  So we thought, "let's film Betty doing the Harlem Shake to celebrate her new twitter handle"...in all came together in a few days...
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Betty as Fashion Model
Posted on the Feb 21, 2013 by Carlin Ross
This is Betty when she first came to New York and worked as a fashion illustrator. She soon gave up her chignon and lipstick for paint brushes and jeans.  You can almost glimpse Betty the artist...
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Betty & Her Husband
Posted on the Feb 12, 2013 by Carlin Ross
This picture was taken decades after their divorce.  Fred was an advertising executive - Betty always honors Fred for allowing her to paint full time for five years.  He was her husband and...
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Betty & Jackie
Posted on the Feb 07, 2013 by Carlin Ross
I love this image of Betty sitting in front of her fire place - her altar - with Jackie above the mantle.  Jackie was part of her Masturbating Nudes exhibition that followed her Love Picture...
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Betty's Memoir My Romantic Love Wars is an Audiobook
Posted on the Jan 17, 2013 by Carlin Ross
Betty's publisher wanted her to release her memoir as a novel.  Betty refused - she wanted to own her sex life.  It isn't often that an author foregoes a six-figure advance to share their...
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Your Own Love Picture Show
Posted on the Jan 08, 2013 by Carlin Ross
Not many people know Betty started her career as a fine artist.  This is a drawing from her Love Picture Exhibition.  I can't believe she did these back in 1968. I did some high resolution...
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