Watch This Incredible Interview With the Late and Trailblazing Betty Dodson
Betty Dodson was a trailblazer and pioneer in the field of sexuality. Unfortunately we never had the opportunity to host her on our podcast as she left the planet on 10/31/2020 at 91 years of age. We were also scheduled to participate in Betty famous BodySex workshop, but then Covid hit and travel and intimate in-person workshops were now off the table.
Betty is in inspiration to us and our work would not be possible without all that she’s done for sexuality. So thank you Betty Dodson. And please be sure to watch the video. She’s brilliant, inspirational, and shamelessly hilarious.
More about Betty: Betty Dodson, artist, author, and PhD sexologist has been one of the principal voices for women's sexual pleasure and health for over four decades.
Her first book, Liberating Masturbation: A Meditation on Selflove (’74) became a feminist classic. Sex for One (’87) sold over a million copies and is an international best-selling book. Orgasms for Two (’02) embraced partner sex. Most recently, she released Sex By Design that details her experiences with America's Sexual Revolution, the women's movement and her feminist sexual activism.
In 2011, Betty received the public service award from SSSS (Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality) and the MASTERS AND JOHNSON AWARD presented by SSTAR (Society for Sex Therapy and Research). Betty was recently named one of the top ten sexual revolutionaries by Cosmopolitan magazine and number 43 of the 100 most important people in sex by Playboy Magazine.
Most recently, she (alongside her business parter Carlin Ross) appeared in Goop's Netflix series - episode 3: The Pleasure is Ours. It was the last piece they filmed together and they knew it at the time. They felt exhilarated and humbled that they'd finally accomplished what they set out to do a decade before: the vulva was finally mainstream!
Carlin Ross will continue to work in Betty's name. Betty left the planet on 10/31/2020.
