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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

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
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.
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Fun Running Taught
We are constantly protecting the male ego, and it’s a disservice to men. If a man has any sensitivity or intelligence, he wants to get the straight scoop from his girlfriend.
BETTY DODSON

Dating Girlfriend Men
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
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
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
The person whose face is between your legs is gonna get lockjaw.
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Faces Legs Persons
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.
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Children Growing Up Sex
It’s just blind luck when a woman is born into a wealthy family and attends the best colleges and joins top sororities.
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College Luck Sorority
A monogamous marriage and family is what some women want – but not all of us. We are mostly doing serial monogamy anyway.
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Family Marriage Monogamy Want
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.
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Brother Dad School
Sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice! That’s the condition of the female. Women have been conditioned to sacrifice for centuries.
BETTY DODSON

Century Female Sacrifice
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
Men are hung up on breasts. They’re looking at the titty dinner. It’s pathetic.
BETTY DODSON

Breasts Dinner Men
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
I consider myself a lesbian, but I’m a bisexual lesbian.
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Bisexual Consider Lesbian
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?
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Ideas Sex Want
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.
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Double Knowing Sex Standard
Vaginal 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 DODSON

America Men Sex
If 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 DODSON

People Sex Talking
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 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 DODSON

Firsts Natural Suffering
It’s very hard for a man to ask questions about sex. The smart ones do.
BETTY DODSON

Men Sex Smart
I’m fully aware had I stayed with my art, I would be well known, respected and most likely rich.
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Art Respected Rich
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
I consider the 70s to be the youth of old age. So all you women out there who are afraid of getting older, just keep your orgasms in place, eat a lot of vegetables, take exercise, and you’ll be fine.
BETTY DODSON

Birthday Exercise Vegetables
The media only wants to get the view of the flaming radicals because they make better copy than those of us who are more sensible. I’m a feminist and I think I’ve done a lot of good.
BETTY DODSON

Media Thinking Views

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.

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