Betty's Memoir

Posted on the Aug 16, 2012 by Betty Dodson
The expression, “Physician heal thyself” has more meaning today than yesterday. After four decades of teaching women about masturbation, I’d gotten quite complacent in the last few years. After all,...
Posted on the Aug 14, 2012 by Betty Dodson
In the early seventies after getting involved in feminism, I began to think about teaching sex to women in practical terms. Instead of sitting around complaining about men as we’d been doing in my...
Posted on the Aug 10, 2012 by Carlin Ross
I love finding vintage "Betty" video.  My favorite line: "It's hard for us to conceive that a woman can be sexual and have sex and determine what happens": Betty Dodson, The Lower East Side...
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Posted on the Aug 08, 2012 by Betty Dodson
This past Sunday I attended a birthday party to celebrate Dell Williams' 90th Birthday. I had been asked to MC the affair that turned out quite a number of aging feminists as well as a few young ones...
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Posted on the Aug 05, 2012 by Carlin Ross
This is one of Betty's hallmark feminist paintings: The Angry Cunt.  When you look at the breadth of her work, you can see her metamorphosis from artist to activist.  We've all been there...
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Posted on the Jul 24, 2012 by Carlin Ross
This is one of my favorite drawings Betty did back in the 70's.  I scanned a slide of Leda and had it blown up and mounted on plexi glass.  It hangs in my home office.  During the day...
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Posted on the Jun 27, 2012 by Carlin Ross
  Republished from Blikk.no: Hallelujah Gathering on Masturbation Betty Dodson took Pride House by storm, to put it mildly, when she had a lecture on masturbation and the vulva on Saturday....
Posted on the Jun 25, 2012 by Betty Dodson
As an old time sexologist who’s traveled the world speaking to groups on controversial subjects, primarily masturbation, I’ve seen it all. Oslo is the one place I think of as being open-minded and...
Posted on the Jun 24, 2012 by Carlin Ross
When we landed in Oslo, it was an utter relief that no one recognized us (they recognized us but Norwegians aren't into verbal confrontation - they would never walk up to a stranger and introduce...
Posted on the Jun 05, 2012 by Carlin Ross
This is my favorite Betty self portrait.  Here she is in her 20's living in nyc as a single woman looking to break into the art world. Fortunate for all of us that she had the courage to leave a...
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Posted on the May 30, 2012 by Carlin Ross
I had to post this outtake from our youtube series....so f*cking funny:
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Posted on the May 29, 2012 by Carlin Ross
A few weeks ago Betty was telling me a story about her early art days in New York.  She used to head down to Cedars - a bar where artists like Jackson Pollock and Allen Ginsberg hung out - as...
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Posted on the May 25, 2012 by Carlin Ross
Betty's art is coming out of storage after 50 years.  Her work was definitely before its time. The All Woman Orgy is one of my favorites.  One of our users, PoignantPefume, had this to say...
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Posted on the May 22, 2012 by Carlin Ross
Betty started her career as a fine artist.  She painted the classical nude and when the sexual revolution started her nudes started having sex...then they masturbated...then they got political....
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Betty Dodson 1973
Posted on the Apr 27, 2012 by Carlin Ross
When I first started working with Betty, I realized that I needed to establish her history.  There isn't much feminist history out there no less sex positive feminist history.  For me, one...