Betty Dodson and I launched this site in 2007 to promote the "Betty Dodson" method of self love and independent orgasm. All of our content is based on user-submitted questions collected over the last several decades. What is clear is that all women lack basic information about their bodies and the female model of sexual response.
Most recently, we appeared in Goop's Netflix series - episode 3: The Pleasure is Ours. It was the last piece we filmed together and we knew it at the time. I will never forget watching the vulva pictures float across the screen and my orgasm with Betty by my side. We held hands in the theater exhilarated and humbled that we'd finally accomplished what we set out to do a decade before: the vulva was mainstream.
Betty left the planet on 10/31/2020.
I remain as the President and Chairman of The Betty Dodson Foundation - a 501c3 public charity dedicated to creating and disseminating sex information and education materials - and together with our board of directors continue the work in Betty's name.
Betty Dodson, Founder - artist, author, and PhD sexologist has been one of the principal voices for women's sexual pleasure and health for over four decades.
Her first book, Liberating Masturbation: A Meditation on Selflove (’74) became a feminist classic. Sex for One (’87) sold over a million copies and is an international best-selling book. Orgasms for Two (’02) embraced partner sex. Most recently, she released Sex By Design that details her experiences with America's Sexual Revolution, the women's movement and her feminist sexual activism.
In 2011, Betty received the public service award from SSSS (Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality) and the MASTERS AND JOHNSON AWARD presented by SSTAR (Society for Sex Therapy and Research). Betty was recently named one of the top ten sexual revolutionaries by Cosmopolitan magazine and number 43 of the 100 most important people in sex by Playboy Magazine.
This NY Times article, You are Your Safest Sex Partner, ran during the first Covid lockdown and I love the picture.
Here is Betty's obituary.
Carlin Ross - attorney, entrepreneur and keeper of all things Betty Dodson. I'm the editor-in-chief of their site dodsonandross.com, President of the Betty Dodson Foundation, and support our Bodysex workshop and certification programs.
My move from law to sex got me the front page of the NY Times and my vulva was broadcast on national television in Norway.
I've appeared on CNN, MSNBC, and Dateline. I've been featured in national publications including The New York Times, The London Times, The New Yorker, O Magazine, Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire and Esquire and web media including ABC News, Huffington Post, Stuff, The Cut, Refinery 29, Vox, and Vulture.
This Glamour interview is my favorite to date.
