What She Said — Betty Dodson Draws The Clitoral Map

Once you hear Betty's voice, you're hooked. And now, to see her magic hands at work!  Her full-length DVDs are just as irresistible—  once you see her sex workshops in progress, there's no turning back.

I, too, have been raving for decades about the book Betty mentions at the beginning of this video: New View of a Woman's Body.

The illustrations and a great deal of the NVWB research is by Suzann Gage, a get-down-on-your-knees-and-thank-her pioneer genius of the women's movement. Suzann is so modest and community-oriented, that she would never admit that, but it's TRUE. She was our first sexual-health columnist at On Our Backs many years ago, and her writing from that time seems as fresh as ever; in part because this knowledge is still so obscured, trivialized, and truncated.

Why do people still want to "pretend" not to know the nature of a woman's clitoris, after all this time? It's not a tiny pebble, it's not a spot, it's not an elevator button. Women have as much erectile tissue as men, as Betty and Suzann explain... why is that still such a secret?

I feel like I've talked myself hoarse about this subject for years, but now I'm just going to take a lozenge and point them to this video! (You should see my bad drawings I've been doing at college campus talks... I'm hopeless).

Betty does a superb job in this video of illustrating and explaining the clitoral body. The other illustrations of NVWB that blew my mind, are Suzann's drawings of what happens to the clitoris, the sexual response cycle, as a woman is reaching climax, orgasming, and cooling off. Maybe Betty will do "Part Deux" sometime!