48 - Betty Dodson & Carlin Ross
Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan
Chris Ryan
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2014
⏱️ 108 minutes
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Summary
Betty Dodson is a well-known pioneer in women's sexual liberation, having sold more than 1 million copies of her first book, Sex for One. Much of her fame has come from her work not only advocating masturbation, but conducting workshops for more than 30 years in which groups of about 10 or more women (and at least once a group of men) would talk, explore their own bodies, and masturbate together. She is a founder of the pro-sex feminist movement, having left behind the more traditional feminist movement because she considered it banal, antisexual and over-politicized.
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| 0:00.0 | Alright, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another edition of 10. |
| 0:08.4 | Gently speaking, I'm your host, Dr. Christopher Ryan. |
| 0:13.0 | This is a very special edition. |
| 0:16.2 | This is Dr. Betty. |
| 0:19.4 | She may as well be a doctor. |
| 0:20.8 | She knows as much about sexuality as any doctor you're ever going to meet. |
| 0:24.3 | Yours truly, most definitely included, she knows more than I do, probably. |
| 0:29.5 | As well, she should. |
| 0:31.3 | She's been at it for a long time. |
| 0:33.1 | She had Betty Dotson held the first one woman show of erotic art at the Wickersham Gallery |
| 0:38.9 | in New York City way back in 1968. |
| 0:43.2 | She's widely known as a pioneer in women's and to somewhat lesser extent men's sexual |
| 0:47.6 | liberation having sold more than one million copies of her first book, Sex for One. |
| 0:54.5 | One million copies, yo. |
| 0:58.6 | I'm reading from her Wikipedia page. |
| 1:00.5 | Much of her fame has come from her work not only advocating masturbation, but conducting |
| 1:05.0 | workshops from more than 30 years in which groups of about 10 or more women would talk, explore |
| 1:11.6 | their own bodies and masturbate together. |
| 1:14.9 | We're going to hear all about that in the conversation I had with Betty and her partner in |
| 1:21.0 | crime, Carlin Ross. |
| 1:23.1 | Betty hosted a public access TV television show in New York City in the early 80s and |
| 1:30.1 | conducted her workshop with a dozen or so nude women discussing and practicing masturbation |
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