| Born August 24,1929 in Wichita, Kansas, Died October 31, 2020 (aged 91) in New York City.
Betty Dodson was an American sex educator. An artist by training, she exhibited erotic art in New York City, before pioneering the pro-sex feminist movement. Dodson's workshops and manuals encourage women to masturbate, often in groups.
Dodson went to New York City to train as an artist in 1950. In 1959, Dodson married Frederick Lief, an advertising director; they divorced in 1965. Dodson held a first one-woman show of erotic art at the Wickersham Gallery in New York City in 1968. In 1987, her Ms. magazine memoir and instructional series, Sex for One, was published. Random House later published the work broadly, and it was translated into 25 languages.
Dodson earned a degree from the unaccredited Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality for her research work on sexuality. Dodson became active in the sex-positive movement in the late 1960s. From the 1970s onwards, she organized Bodysex workshops. Bodysex is a practice developed by Betty Dodson to help women connect with their bodies and erogenous zones, heal shames, improve pleasure perception, and promote self-love. Dodson published a memoir, Sex by Design, in 2010. In 2014, she stated that she considered herself a fourth-wave feminist, stating that the previous waves of feminist were banal and anti-sexual, which is why she has chosen to look at a new stance of feminism, fourth wave feminism. In 2014, Dodson worked with women to discover their sexual desires through masturbation. Dodson died on October 31, 2020, at the age of 91, from cirrhosis in a Manhattan nursing home.
Betty Dodson was an American sex educator. An artist by training, she exhibited erotic art in New York City, before pioneering the pro-sex feminist movement. Dodson's workshops and manuals encourage women to masturbate, often in groups.
Dodson went to New York City to train as an artist in 1950. In 1959, Dodson married Frederick Lief, an advertising director; they divorced in 1965. Dodson held a first one-woman show of erotic art at the Wickersham Gallery in New York City in 1968. In 1987, her Ms. Magazine memoir and instructional series, Sex for One, was published. Random House later published the work broadly, and it was translated into 25 languages.
Dodson earned a degree from the unaccredited Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality for her research work on sexuality. Dodson became active in the sex-positive movement in the late 1960s. From the 1970s onwards, she organized Bodysex workshops. Bodysex is a practice developed by Betty Dodson to help women connect with their bodies and erogenous zones, heal shames, improve pleasure perception, and promote self-love. Dodson published a memoir, Sex by Design, in 2010. In 2014, she stated that she considered herself a fourth-wave feminist, stating that the previous waves of feminist were banal and anti-sexual, which is why she has chosen to look at a new stance of feminism, fourth wave feminism. In 2014, Dodson worked with women to discover their sexual desires through masturbation. Dodson died on October 31, 2020, at the age of 91, from cirrhosis in a Manhattan nursing home. |
