The Hand – Vibe Balance
It's not hands or vibrators - it's both! Learn your orgasm build up: take breaks, change positions, change your clit stim and explore your body. Variety is arousing.
Betty at Chico State 1970
Betty spoke at Chico State in 1970. She shares her experiences about orgasm, masturbation, and feminism. She is brilliant. This video is a valuable piece of feminist and Bodysex history. The first couple of minutes are choppy but stick with it. It's about an hour...
Variation in Vulvas
Betty championed the vulva and brought the word clitoris into popular language. In honor of the second anniversary of Betty's passing, we talk about the clitoris and the variety of vulvas. There's great variety in the size, shape, and color of the clitoris, clitoral...
What is Sexual Health?
I have started studying with the Sexual Health Alliance this week (woohoo!) and the first topic I was looking into was sexual health. Very often, we tend to feel that the absence of sickness, distress or disease makes us healthy, but is that really true? According to...
Let’s Talk About Normal
As you probably already guessed, I am about to tell you that there is no normal. Normal is a societal construct put into place to box people. Someone, somewhere, somewhen decided what is to be considered appropriate or not and most of us have grown up conforming to...
It’s Body – Sex
Betty Dodson named her workshops Body - sex for a reason. We need to be connected to our bodies to experience pleasure. Accept your body, appreciate your body. Then you can fully experience sexual pleasure and share your body with another person with agency.
Orgasms During Partner Sex
There are two choices. You have to either run the fuck or accept that sometimes fucking can be foreplay for masturbation. Carlin and Laura explain.
Vulva on Fire
Two years ago, I started having what I was told were bladder and/or vaginal infections and though treatment didn’t bring the expected results, the diagnosis didn’t change. After many months of the same thing happening, my gynecologist started experimenting, diagnosing...
You are the Source of Your Own Pleasure
Why is it so hard for women to connect to their own pleasure? Carlin and Laura break down orgasm resistance.
Orgasm is an Experience in the Body
Connection with your body is necessary to fully experience orgasm.
Coming Home to Bodysex
Reflection after our most-recent Bodysex circle brought me to one word: rebirth. Sitting in the circle again after two and a half years felt like coming home. This was our first in-person workshop since before the pandemic and since before Betty left the planet. As I...
We Heal in Circles of Women
In my Bodysex Circle in the summer of 2022 three women got together open for deeply connecting to themselves, their bodies and pleasure. A minimum of 10 hours rolled passed us, as if time didn’t exist at all and as we were immersed into exploring self-touch. If I had...
Fantasy Jumpstarts Arousal
Fantasy jumpstarts arousal to get to desire. It builds the mind-body connection and helps us "stay with it" to move fully into pleasure.
Your Body Exists for Your Pleasure
The hardest thing is to make time for our pleasure.
Betty’s Greatest Lesson
Carlin and Laura share what they learned from Betty. Her greatest lesson: self-love.