Articles
Read articles and blog posts written by Betty Dodson, Carlin Ross, Bodysex Facilitators, and guest writers
My First Bodysex Workshop
I’d just clicked the pay now button on a Bodysex invoice. My heart was racing, I’d really done it, I’d really committed to this event. I knew I had to do it quickly because I know how I talk myself out of things, especially if the main person benefiting is me. That...
Ashes: How Bodysex® & The Bodysex® Sisterhood Handle Trauma
I have a small jar of ashes on my hallway table - the first thing I see when I walk through my door. They belong to our founder, creator of Bodysex®, “mother of masturbation,” Dr. Betty Dodson®. They are a gift from Carlin Ross to the Bodysex Leaders when we complete...
What is Sex?
And where does it begin and where does it end? Sex is the big heading and my experience of sex are all the subtitles underneath it. Never-ending and ever-changing. Sex is a topic for most of us, no matter if we have it or not. We grow up without being taught...
Making Time for Pleasure is the Hardest Part of Becoming Orgasmic
“You have the most sophisticated sex organ on the planet capable of endless pleasure that never ages”. I repeat this mantra in workshops, private sessions, and all our videos. And, when the words escape my lips, I see the same look of disbelief flood the face of...
Get Naked and Come In
"Get naked and come in." Those were the first words I heard. "You're Raffaella from Chile? I bet Betty you’d be the first. You’ll get certified, right?" said Carlin Ross. The entrance was a hallway with silver hangers, I chose one and left my belongings. Since the...
A Post-Menopausal Prostitute
This is an excerpt from Sex by Design, Betty's memoir. It was early afternoon when Scarlet called sounding desperate. A girlfriend who was to join her for a paid threesome had just canceled. Although she’d asked me to do a double with her several times in the past,...
Sex Positions: Three or More
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Sex Positions: Partner Masturbation
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Sex Positions: Side by Side
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Sex Positions: Kneeling
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Sex Positions: Face to Face
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Feeling Safe Enough to Take Risks & Remove Shame at the Women’s Pleasure Retreats
Self-love is an act of rebellion in the system we live in. Touching your body as a vulva haver is an act of liberation from hundreds of years of suppression. Bodysex® is for people who are ready to take full authorship over their bodies and move into experiencing...
Pleasure Symphony
Imagine a piece of music that combines the most grounding frequencies with sounds reaching out of this world, all being held together by the sounds of pleasure. Do you have an idea what that could sound like? J I must admit that I am asking a lot but let me tell you...
Erotic Art Throughout History
Erotic art has been created around the world throughout history. Intended to inspire sexual arousal, erotic art usually depicts nudity and sex acts It takes many forms, including drawings, paintings, lithographs, photographs, films, sculptures, and more. Erotic art...
Ecstasy is possible – Strawberries in Tenerife
Written by Céline Manon Arriving in Tenerife after a long winter at the beginning of February - I felt ready! I felt joy and I felt honored to be able to serve the women who would show up at the Finca Anna and I had rented for 5 days to hold the first ‘Women’s...
My First Live Workshop Without Betty
The December before lockdown Betty and I lead our last workshop together. There was a feeling of finality in that group. Betty's skin and hair had turned this glowing translucent white - like an angel. She was peaceful, calm and quite loving towards me. As we...
Bodysex: Tuning In To Freedom
While setting up for this November’s Bodysex Retreat in Portland, OR, I was about to hang the usual red scarf over the large glass opening of my front door, when inspiration struck. Bodysex is like this. A gentle tuning in to our bodies and our intuition sometimes...
Gracious Resurrection
Resurrection feels, at first, like an oddly fitting dress to me. Tight in all the wrong places with an unflattering pattern and itchy seam. When my Bodysex sister first uttered the phrase “Gracious Resurrection” to describe how she felt at the end of the workshop, I...
Becoming . . . Liquid
I have turned to liquid. Not so much swimming as melting into the sounds of sisters and myself as I, we, sink deeper into the mystical, magical experience of erotic recess. Charging ourselves with pleasure for ourselves. Showing myself to myself. What feeds me, what...
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...
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...
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...