Betty Dodson with Carlin Ross
Better Orgasms. Better World.
My writing on this site was previously under the byline "Dee Greene." I came to the place where owning my sexuality included linking my name to the words I write about bodies, sex, and gender.
Married to a man for most of my twenties, I practiced polyamory before, during, and after my marriage. During my current "lesbian" relationship I've explored monogamy, though I'm neither a naysayer of nor refugee from the realms of truthful nonmonogamy. As my sex and relationship styles inevitably shift and change, a combination of honesty, loyalty, and fluidity feels best to me.
Embracing masturbation, both alone and with a partner, holds a key place for me in finding wholeness sexually. While I've masturbated for as long as I can remember, it's only been in my current sexual relationship that we've included mutual masturbation into our sexual connection. Our individual and collective sex lives have benefited from it, and I am intrigued by the social aspects of shared self-sex.
As I reach my mid-thirties, I am beginning to learn how to hold all the pieces of myself and my history with wide, gentle arms. In finding reconciliation, I'm making room for all of me.