Betty Dodson Quotes

It's high time subjects like sex, and everything that it includes, are normalised.

One of the things I rarely do is write about sex.

If you can't laugh about sex, you shouldn't be doing it.

I'm a sexually liberated woman that earned that liberation. I am very proud of the fact that I feel comfortable in certain forums discussing sex.

People's attitudes about sex aren't healthy anywhere, except maybe in those tribes where they go around naked.

If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?

Well I think people think sex is controversial. Not always, but certainly it's something to be discussed.

Sex is on the minds of most people, especially those who shouldn't be having it.

We need men and women to sit down and talk to each other about sex honestly and openly. That would help us fight Aids so immediately. But our lack of communication is hugely problematic.

People say that if you talk too much about sex, you take away the mystery. I say, if you're somebody who likes to talk, talk all you want - it's not listening. You will never take away the mystery.

I know [people talk about sex now all the time] But do they really talk about it personally?

I like talking about sex. Especially when I'm horny, but even when I'm not.

Sexuality in girls isn't explored as much as it should be. Everyone gets freaked out - it's quite a taboo thing for girls to wanna have sex

Sex is always good, isn't it? Well, actually it's not always good, but it's always a good thing.

It's really important to have a healthy sexuality and to be open about it. It's not a taboo. It's normal.

My mother never talked about sex. I was on the Dr. Ruth [ Westheimer] show once - this is years and years and years ago - and it was her Mother's Day show. And I didn't know what we were going to talk about but what she decided we were going to talk about was female masturbation. My mother had invited all her girlfriends. And you know these were all women in their late seventy's maybe they were in their eighty's by then and then and they were horrified because Dr Ruth had a little she had a little chart up you know "female masturbation".

Sheree Conrad and Michael Milburn bring a much-needed sanity to that confusing and unruly terrain, our sexual lives/

I am South African and I am so aware, even as a white, privileged South African, that even within our community of privilege the idea of talking about sex or sexual preference or sexual identity or anything like that was just, nobody ever did that and nobody ever felt comfortable doing that.

You know, God, the power that makes life, whatever it is, had just to make two things, masculine and feminine, for all this mischief. And made them so there is this entirely different point of view about love and sex.

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.

Managing people's sex lives is something that I don't think is a good role for government.

I think it is world—wide. As long as there is sex, it is going to be used… We recognize the existence of sex and the attraction of sex.

'Playboy' was not a sex magazine as far as I was concerned. Sex was simply part of the total package; I was trying to bring sex into the fold of a healthy lifestyle.

I do owe Mickey one thing: he taught me how much I enjoyed sex.

Our movement is evolving. The movement to liberate our sexuality as a human right, that's an ongoing struggle.