I consider myself a lesbian, but I’m a bisexual lesbian.
BETTY DODSONI consider myself a lesbian, but I’m a bisexual lesbian.
BETTY DODSONI did large drawings of couples having sex! Men and woman enjoying intercourse and oral sex in a Madison Avenue Gallery? That was the first time I broke a barrier that made me think, some idiot is going to blow my brains out for sure.
BETTY DODSONVaginal penetration only doesn’t work for most of us. And we’re not all meant to be monogamous either, especially since women are capable of having far more sex than men. Try to get that fact across in America!
BETTY DODSONI think I should get the Nobel Peace Prize before I die for ending the war between the sexes.
BETTY DODSONI’m fully aware had I stayed with my art, I would be well known, respected and most likely rich.
BETTY DODSONInstead of being a well-known painter, I became everybody’s favorite dirty joke. Come to think of it, teaching masturbation skills is pretty weird.
BETTY DODSONWomen don’t run around saying, “Oh, I took a Bodysex workshop, and I had so much fun, and Betty Dodson taught us how to blah blah.” They come, they go, and I rarely hear from them again.
BETTY DODSONWhen I found out after that first successful exhibition that the gallery wanted me to do another show like the first one, I come out two years later with four 6-foot drawings of classical nudes masturbating. The gallery director flipped the freak out!
BETTY DODSONThe first thing the male establishment wants to control is uterus and birth. You might call it womb envy. But even worse is the fact we are still using the male model of sexual response for women.
BETTY DODSONIt’s just blind luck when a woman is born into a wealthy family and attends the best colleges and joins top sororities.
BETTY DODSONMasturbation is our first and natural form of sexual activity and if that’s inhibited or damaged, then we suffer for the rest of our lives.
BETTY DODSONThe person whose face is between your legs is gonna get lockjaw.
BETTY DODSONA monogamous marriage and family is what some women want – but not all of us. We are mostly doing serial monogamy anyway.
BETTY DODSONWe all have our individual romantic or idealistic ideas. To get information that masturbation is our basic form of sex is hard, because who wants to admit they’re masturbating?
BETTY DODSONIf you go out to dinner with someone, you find out what they prefer in food. We ought to be able to have a conversation to find out what people prefer when it comes to sex.
BETTY DODSONBecause orgasmic sex would lead to women’s autonomy, knowing who you are and what we want: Women are not going to follow what some jackass tells us we must do.
BETTY DODSON