About this project
Betty Dodson's Bodysex Group is a documentary on the monthly workshops Betty Dodson PhD ran from her New York City apartment for over 25 years.
Betty's "bodysex" workshops were an outgrowth of the consciousness raising groups that launched the feminist movement. Celebrities, dignitaries, career women and housewives took this workshop to better understand their bodies and their sexuality.
Each "bodysex" group was made up of 13 women who would join Betty in "the circle" to answer 2 questions: how do you feel about your body and how do you feel about your orgasm. This 2-day workshop included nudity to end genital shame and instruction on how to achieve orgasm.
Thousands of women took part in this healing ritual - Betty's goal was to liberate female sexuality. In the 1980's Betty shot a bodysex group with a hand-held VHS camera. It's still our best selling dvd.
This production will save Betty's revolutionary work for the ages.
Original Betty Dodson painting
Oil on Canvas
13" x 9"
2005
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Receive the DVD edition of the film, the DVD set of Betty Dodson films, and a signed copy of Betty's international best seller Sex for One. You will also get a special 'thank you' in the film's credits because we're very, very grateful.
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Betty Dodson is a celebrated artist, author & PhD sexologist - one of the principal voices for sex positive feminism and women's health for over four decades.
Betty had the first one-woman show of erotic art in ’68 in nyc.
She produced and presented the first feminist slide show of vulvas at the 1973 NOW Sexuality Conference in New York.
She introduced the electric vibrator as a pleasure device to the American market.
She wrote the international best seller and feminist classic Sex for One that sold over 1M copies.
For 25 years, she ran bodysex groups where women learned about their bodies and their sexuality through genital show and tell and group masturbation.
In short, she's an icon - just ask wikipedia.
