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I 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 Dodson

It was easy to leave the art world after I found out that it was just another corporation. When they told me I had to create the same thing, I rebelled.
BETTY DODSON

Art Corporations World
Masturbation is a meditation on self-love. So many of us are afflicted with self-loathing, bad body images, shame about our body functions, and confusion about sex and pleasure, I recommend an intense love affair with yourself
BETTY DODSON

Bad Confusion Images Self Sex
When I do documentaries, my best information ends up on the cutting-room floor. People have trouble dealing with sexual honesty.
BETTY DODSON

Cutting Honesty People
When 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 DODSON

Successful Two Years
I used to think masturbation was not really sex because it only involved me. That’s a very limited view of human sexuality, and it isn’t going to work for women.
BETTY DODSON

Sex Thinking Views
The powers that be understand that sexual freedom or liberation with any kind of joy means they are losing control.
BETTY DODSON

Control Joy Losing Mean
Although my Dad was a talented calligrapher and both of my younger brothers were successful, I was the first one in my family to graduate from high school.
BETTY DODSON

Brother Dad School
Men are hung up on breasts. They’re looking at the titty dinner. It’s pathetic.
BETTY DODSON

Breasts Dinner Men
The women working at abortion clinics are really on the front lines and the true heroes of feminism.
BETTY DODSON

Abortion Feminism Hero
The person whose face is between your legs is gonna get lockjaw.
BETTY DODSON

Faces Legs Persons
The galleries are simply corporations in the art world – “Here’s a million dollars for this latest piece of crap” – but I’m not about to go along with the gallery system.
BETTY DODSON

Art Dollars Pieces
A monogamous marriage and family is what some women want – but not all of us. We are mostly doing serial monogamy anyway.
BETTY DODSON

Family Marriage Monogamy Want
Not all women are going to get married, be monogamous and raise a family. It will destroy the current social structure based on a sexual double standard that we’re currently living under.
BETTY DODSON

Autonomy Currently Going Standard Women
If you tell a child “Don’t touch yourself there,” they will deal with some kind of sexual problem from then on, to one degree or other.
BETTY DODSON

Children Degrees Kind
It’s just blind luck when a woman is born into a wealthy family and attends the best colleges and joins top sororities.
BETTY DODSON

College Luck Sorority
We 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 DODSON

Ideas Sex Want

I 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.

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I 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.

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