Carlin Ross & Betty Dodson

Betty keeps everything. When I found the transcript from NOW's first and only sexuality conference in 1973, I knew we had to read it on camera because Betty's talk was beyond amazing. An archivist found that clip and forwarded this audio taping of the speech. The cheers...Betty's voice...it sends chills down my spine. Enjoy.

Betty's writing an essay "How to Best Use a Vibrator" - it's not intuitive. We decided to pour a "Dodson" and chat about it.

We finally had a minute to sit down and talk about the Bodysex documentary. All the women experienced a transformation. The nudity...the group orgasm were a big healing for the cast and the crew. Women must claim their sexual power.

Barbara calls herself an orgasm expansionist - we sat down to talk about thinking off (remember that Strange Sex episode) - and how you can have energy and breath orgasms. There are an infinite number of erotic possibilities. It's about breathing, squeezing your pc muscles, rocking your pelvis, using your imagination and making sound.

Joan Price - author of Naked at Our Age - stopped by and we turned on the microphones. Betty wrote the forward and we can't say enough wonderful things about this book. Sex changes as you age but sex is life long (what Joan calls "ageless sexuality"). And, as women, we can look forward to "menopausal zest". Joan met the love of her life when she was 57....a time when you can break

We needed to "flesh" out the group orgasm ritual so we broke out the microphones. It's really all about social bonding between women. Getting past modesty and genital shame - being comfortable in our own skin "titty to titty, pussy to pussy". Ultimately, it's feminism.

Betty is the mother of masturbation - Deborah Sundahl is the mother of female ejaculation. Betty and Deborah go way back to the feminist movement. Deborah described her first experience ejaculating - and we talked about her latest area of interest: chronic pelvic floor tension. It's my favorite podcast to date.

It was a big week - I came out about my sexual past with Marie Claire and posed for a evocative photoshoot. Betty's response, "now I know how my mother felt". It was my sexual "coming out". I'm so glad I did it.

We know how to have sex for procreation but we don't know how to have sex for pleasure. Betty bottom lined S&M, we came up with the idea of sex badges & we planned out our sexual practice documentary.

Sheila Shea is the woman who started the bodysex groups with Betty. She was in town and I had to turn on the microphones. From group sex to how they started the genital show & tell ritual, we hit it all. And we all agreed: everyone liked Hustler's split beaver the best.