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 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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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.
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I consider myself a lesbian, but I’m a bisexual lesbian.
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We are at war with men, and most women don’t even know it.
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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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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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The person whose face is between your legs is gonna get lockjaw.
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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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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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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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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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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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I’m fully aware had I stayed with my art, I would be well known, respected and most likely rich.
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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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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.
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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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