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 DODSONIf 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.
More Betty Dodson Quotes
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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.
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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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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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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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We are at war with men, and most women don’t even know it.
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When I do documentaries, my best information ends up on the cutting-room floor. People have trouble dealing with sexual honesty.
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I think I should get the Nobel Peace Prize before I die for ending the war between the sexes.
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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
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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.
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The powers that be understand that sexual freedom or liberation with any kind of joy means they are losing control.
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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.
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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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The women working at abortion clinics are really on the front lines and the true heroes of feminism.
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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.
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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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