{"id":368,"date":"2007-05-01T14:52:23","date_gmt":"2007-05-01T04:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.msnaughty.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/01\/betty-dodson-interview\/"},"modified":"2007-05-01T14:52:23","modified_gmt":"2007-05-01T04:52:23","slug":"betty-dodson-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/01\/betty-dodson-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Betty Dodson Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xtra.ca\/public\/viewstory.aspx?AFF_TYPE=1&#038;STORY_ID=2952&#038;PUB_TEMPLATE_ID=2\" target=\"blank\">Xtra.ca<\/a> has a great interview with Betty Dodson, the &#8220;Mother of Masturbation.&#8221; It makes for great reading, but one bit stood out for me:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>DW: Is there a distinction, in your mind, between sex-positive erotica and porn, or is this a false divide?<\/p>\n<p>BD: That debate successfully divided and conquered America&#8217;s feminism in the &#8217;80s. One woman&#8217;s erotica is another woman&#8217;s porn or the other way around. It&#8217;s all sex art. Some of it is good and some of it is stupid, exaggerated or silly. But hey! If an image or an idea gets you off who am I to pass judgment?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I also have to laugh at her term &#8220;absexuals&#8221; &#8211; a word for &#8220;folks who get off complaining about sex and trying to censor porn.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Classic.<\/p>\n<p>Check out Betty&#8217;s site <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bettydodson.com\/\" target=\"blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xtra.ca has a great interview with Betty Dodson, the &#8220;Mother of Masturbation.&#8221; It makes for great reading, but one bit stood out for me: DW: Is there a distinction, in your mind, between sex-positive erotica and porn, or is this a false divide? BD: That debate successfully divided and conquered America&#8217;s feminism in the &#8217;80s. One woman&#8217;s erotica is another woman&#8217;s porn or the other way around. It&#8217;s all sex <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/01\/betty-dodson-interview\/\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feminism"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}