Betty Dodson

Betty Dodson has empowered more women to have orgasms and understand their body’s capacity for pleasure than any other person on the planet (at least, as far as we know!) Betty has tirelessly dedicated her life to assisting people to see sexuality as a positive, life-enhancing part of our lives. Betty is credited with “liberating masturbation” for women via an article in Ms. Magazine and a pamphlet, entitled Liberating Masturbation, promoting masturbation as a way of improving women’s sexual experiences. The pamphlet became so popular it made the transition to a mainstream publisher in the 1970s, and remains in print to this day entitled Sex For One. Always willing to push the movement further, Betty took the self-help clinic model and put it to work for sexuality, though her bodysex groups. Betty is now 75 years old and recently wrote Orgasms for Two, a guide for women in sexual relationships with men. Betty challenged taboos 30 years ago when she openly supported masturbation; she continues to show us new pathways as an older woman talking about sex and sexuality in a frank, positive, and open way. See: www.Bettydodson.com.
September 2005