Electric Diary: Electric Pussy No. 19

This entry was contributed by the model for Electric Pussy No. 19

“In May, 2014, I was fortunate to stumble upon a woman named Betty Dodson, a feisty white-haired senior who had been offering masturbation workshops out of her Manhattan apartment for years.

I happened upon this article featuring Betty and her work, my first introduction. I was so intrigued and inspired. I went to my podcast app and found every interview.

I listened to every single one of them.

There was a part of her story that really resonated with me: there was a time when she thought her pussy was broken. The labia weren't symmetrical.

(She thought she had broken it from masturbating too much as a child.)

Betty even felt uncomfortable with her lover getting a close up look at her vulva, to which he exclaimed, "You've got my favorite kind of pussy!" (or something like that)

She was confused. First, she thought her pussy was broken, and now she's hearing that there is more than one kind?

He brought her a porn magazine and showed her all the different types of vulvas. She declared (in one of those interviews I listened to) that this exchange cured what years of therapy couldn't.

Fast forward, I attended her workshop BodySex that fall.

My relationship with my pussy changed and my partnered sex improved greatly, once I embraced masturbation. Something that I really hadn't in my 38 years prior.

Now I support others in loving their pussy's too by occasionally offering a Betty Dodson BodySex inspired day-long workshop. I've also taken that idea of body empowerment into my work as a surrogate partner, where I support clients, working with therapists, in building healthy intimate relationships.

Finding Betty Dodson changed my life. Learning to love my pussy changed my life. Thank you for sharing her with the world in such a beautiful, electrifying way.”