Getting to know yourself
I have not changed my mind: I am still disappointed with my English classes. So, in order to improve my knowledge, I have got into the habit of reading books in English. And I have some good news for you: the last book I read was very interesting.
Do you know Betty Dodson? She has a Ph.D, is an artist, an author and also a sex educator. She wrote Sex for One in 1986, a book that deals with masturbation. It includes her own illustrations, some of which are rather more graphic than the one I chose for the sensitive readers of the Anglomane. This book is a cross between a personal narrative about the pitfalls of romantic love versus erotic sex and an impassioned defence of masturbation. In it’s time, it was something of a feminist bestseller.
Betty Dodson explains that a lot of women feel bad because they think they are ugly and unable to have pleasure when they make love. Where does the problem come from? According to Betty Dodson, the first step is becoming “cunt positive”. A lot of women are afraid to masturbate or to “receive a present from their close friend” because they think their vulva is not beautiful. The book contains some pictures that show that all figures exist in nature. So, don’t worry if your lips are big, many people really like it.
Betty Dodson loves men and woman. She thinks that we do not have to say “love is intercourse”. She advises women to use a dildo so that they will know themselves better. Another good reason to masturbate: it is safe sex! And no, it does not lead to blindness or to deafness.
Some people will probably say that masturbation leads us to individualism. That is not necessarily true. Masturbation can be practiced in couples, as a funny game. Of course, for a lot a people, it is a taboo topic. Apparently, in some girls’ boarding schools, the matron made the girls go to sleep with their hands outside the covers!