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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

The 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 DODSON

Envy Males Uterus
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
Women 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 DODSON

Fun Running Taught
Sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice! That’s the condition of the female. Women have been conditioned to sacrifice for centuries.
BETTY DODSON

Century Female Sacrifice
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
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 clitoris is the female sex organ, and the fact that we aren’t told that when we were small children is devastating. We grow up with no information about the pleasure center of our body.
BETTY DODSON

Children Growing Up Sex
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
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
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
Because 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

Double Knowing Sex Standard
I consider myself a lesbian, but I’m a bisexual lesbian.
BETTY DODSON

Bisexual Consider Lesbian
Instead 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 DODSON

Dirty Teaching Thinking
The women working at abortion clinics are really on the front lines and the true heroes of feminism.
BETTY DODSON

Abortion Feminism Hero
The powers that be understand that sexual freedom or liberation with any kind of joy means they are losing control.
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Control Joy Losing Mean
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

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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