Bodysex Rituals Are Exercises in Shared Vulnerability

by Carlin Ross | Jun 7, 2024

Carrying the legacy of an icon like Betty Dodson can be crushing at times. I’m representing Betty’s life’s work while trying to incorporate my experience taking Bodysex virtual during covid. There are complexities in the repression of female sexuality that are new,...

Finding My Voice

by Laura Bogush | Jun 6, 2024

Art by Betty Dodson For most of my life, I didn’t feel comfortable speaking up for myself. I was raised to be a “good girl,” to be “seen and not heard”, to “stop crying or I’ll give you something to cry about.” My own thoughts, feelings, and wants were diminished,...

Reclaiming My Sexual Body

by Emma | Apr 20, 2024

I started my journey into Bodysex in 2022. Before then I was engaging with the Dodson&Ross website  for a few years. My career as a dance artist, actress and teacher spans over sixteen years. In 2011 I began making work focused on female empowerment which played...

Shedding Menstrual Shame in the Sacred Space of Bodysex

by Lakota | Apr 18, 2024

I stared at my period app calendar, frustrated that either it wasn’t right or my body wasn’t. I was supposed to have my period by now, in fact I’d intentionally planned this Bodysex circle so that it would be just past the heavy days. Every time I went to the bathroom...

My First Bodysex Experience

by Rachel Andrea | Apr 18, 2024

In April of 2019 I attended my first Bodysex Workshop.  The months leading up to the workshop had been a whirlwind of emotions.  In my personal life I was unknowingly at the very beginning of the end of my 15-year relationship.  In my professional life I had...

Circles of Women are Powerful, Healing Spaces

by Carlin Ross | Mar 28, 2024

These past few months have been hard.  I want to blame it on perimenopause.  I want to disconnect from my body, disassociate from the flight response building in my limbs. I think that’s why we scrape orgasm off our plate: it allows us to live without feeling, live...