Betty Dodson Quotes & Trivia



Quotes

I consider myself a lesbian, but I'm a bisexual lesbian.

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.

I like to see oral sex and manual sex and intercourse as foreplay for my vibrator sex.

I need to get back in touch with who I am sexually, and I have a feeling that an affair with a woman is coming up.

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.

I went through the '70s and '80s saying, I'm a heterosexual bisexual lesbian, and whenever I said that, no one asked me another thing.

I've spent the past six years with a young man, which was a nice break, dipping back into heterosexuality again from all my time with women.

If we all talked honestly about what's really happening in our sex lives, we'd realise that we're all normal because it's going to be about diversity.

If we could grow up knowing that the genitals are beautiful parts of our bodies, we'd be proud, we wouldn't have shame, we wouldn't have sexual guilt.

If you are using your childhood masturbation technique, you are not developing sexually. We, of course, develop and become more varied.

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.

It was so astonishing for women to sit there looking at images of female genitals. When we took those photographs, I got body rushes.

It's the standard male interaction, the whole, Got laid last night, she could barely walk today, I'm making plenty of money.

It's very hard for a man to ask questions about sex. The smart ones do.

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.

Men are hung up on breasts. They're looking at the titty dinner. It's pathetic.

My entire career has been confronted with censorship. You can't talk about masturbation in America without confronting censorship.

Never touch your clitoris dry, never. I can't emphasize enough lubrication.

One of the biggest problems for all of us is that we think there's something wrong with us genitally. Men, too.

Sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice! That's the condition of the female. Women have been conditioned to sacrifice for centuries.

That first genital portrait I did went to the NOW conference. I showed 100 female genital slides to a sell-out audience, and I brought the whole room to its feet.

The characters in Sex and the City were all scrambling for a man-I don't call that a good message for women. Couldn't just one of them say Look, I prefer to masturbate than go out with another one of these jerks?

The clitoris is a tiny little button with millions of nerve endings. You can't direct it and you can't focus it.

The clitoris is ignored. Our mothers weren't told and their mothers' mothers weren't told.

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.

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.

The orgasm is simply when the body does take over.

The person whose face is between your legs is gonna get lockjaw.

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?

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.

When I do documentaries, my best information ends up on the cutting-room floor. People have trouble dealing with sexual honesty.