May is National Masturbation Month, having been so declared by the erotically aware jill-off gals at Good Vibrations and the Godmother of Masturbation herself, Dr. Betty Dodson. Why bother to have a National Masturbation Month? Thus, the M Month.
Betty Dodson born August 24, is an American sex educator. An artist by training, she exhibited erotic art in New York, before pioneering the pro-sex feminist movement, separate from mainstream feminism , which she sees as needlessly political and hostile towards males. Although bisexual herself, she repudiates the labels that define sexuality. She left the art world to teach sex to women. She is widely known as a pioneer in women's liberation, and to a somewhat lesser extent in men's sexual liberation , having sold more than one 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.
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Skip to content , or skip to search. While he was of the opinion that a man who has a committed sexual relationship with porn was probably not going to have as successful a relationship with a woman, he had no qualms about watching it. Which he did most days. A related link led Henry to a community of people engaged in attempts to quit masturbation on the social news site Reddit. Henry did not feel awesome.
Issue : December 8, - December 14, By James Gavin Earlier this autumn, the supposedly enlightened ladies of The View were shaken up by a visit from the mother of masturbation, Betty Dodson, Ph. Dodson, 76, began coaching women on how to achieve orgasm way back in the '60s, when the word was barely spoken. But on this show, where she mentioned things like "clitoral stimulation," it was clear that her fight against sexual repression is far from over. Barbara Walters scowled as condemningly as an old nun; Joy Behar looked like she'd swallowed a bad oyster; Star Jones stared cluelessly. Disapproval of Dodson rose with the introduction of her bookishly sexy lover, Eric Wilkinson,