Dodson, Betty

(1930- ) (USA)

   Contemporary painter, draughtsman, and sex educator. Especially well known for books and classes encouraging female masturbation and achieving orgasms. In the 1960s and 1970s was a realist artist producing explicitly sexual images.

   Reproductions: [Couple copulating]; 1968; pencil; Haught 1992: p. 45 . [Couple in 69]; Steinberg, 1987; p. 142 [B]. Female orgy; 1970; oil; Hurwood, 1975: p. 208 [B]. French kiss; 1968; charcoal; Philips, 1979: fig. 186 [B]. [Making love]; pencil; Kronhausen, 1968: p. 148 [B] / Bentley, 1984: p. 169 [B]. [Man and woman copulating]; Steinberg, 1987: p. 184 [B] / Hurwood, 1975: p. 208 [B]. [Man performing cunnilingus]; Steinberg, 1987: p. 163 [B] / Kronhausen, 1970c: p. 112 [B] / 6-80: pp. 28-29 [B]. Target; 1968; charcoal; Juxtapose presents: erotica vol. 2 c1998: pp. 22-23 . Vaginal drawing; 1973; Tickner, 1978: fig. 52 [B]. [Woman atop man kissing passionately]; Steinberg, 1987: p. 115 [B].

   [b]Source: Betty Dodson, "Betty Dodson, erotic illustrations," Viva (February 1974): pp. 42-45+; Betty Dod-son, Liberating masturbation: a meditation on self love (New York: Betty Dodson, 1976); Mary Phillips, "The fine art of lovemaking: an interview with Betty Dod-son," Evergreen Review 15, 7 (February 1971): pp. 37-43+.