Bodysex Education | Gretchen Verner | Activity https://education.bodysex.com/members/gretchen-xvgmail-com/activity/ Activity feed for Gretchen Verner. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 05:38:05 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 91d10477218f69617a3f8bc411ad66a7 Gretchen Verner replied to the topic Your Question for Betty in the forum Module 2: Who is Betty Dodson? https://education.bodysex.com/forums/topic/your-question-for-betty/#post-9100 Tue, 17 Dec 2024 18:30:54 -0500 Betty, how did you not care about what others thought? (Her “skits” with her younger boyfriend!) and how did you not have debilitating fear, given how out there you were? I know you pushed people to just do it — how can we encourage ourselves now?

]]> 0 23118d7c6000265bd5ae4ea447095dd8 Gretchen Verner replied to the topic Betty's Life in the forum Module 2: Who is Betty Dodson? https://education.bodysex.com/forums/topic/carlins-interview-with-betty/#post-9099 Tue, 17 Dec 2024 18:26:44 -0500 I left with the sense of just how much she was in the driver’s seat. Her stories about the art gallery owner and FBI agents — how she did not back down — it was amazing. I was also very surprised just by the quantity of sex she was having! The section on group sex was pretty amazing to me — to think of open sex in a pre-AIDS time — to me,…Read more

]]> 0 64b5898836d7ac43584b0155509fa17f Gretchen Verner replied to the topic Betty's Lectures in the forum Module 2: Who is Betty Dodson? https://education.bodysex.com/forums/topic/bettys-lecture-at-chico-state/page/2/#post-8789 Fri, 22 Nov 2024 04:00:58 -0500 Chico state — it was interesting to see this in the context of the other video footage — such as the Aspen’s Women’s Week when she was so at ease and having fun. In the Chico State video, she is talking very fast and has SO much to say. I’m imagining that she felt the push to download as much as possible. It felt as if she were an amazing open…Read more

]]> 0 7d9b4202815f9b021acf25bb45fe52a4 Gretchen Verner replied to the topic Betty's Process in Creating Bodysex in the forum Module 2: Who is Betty Dodson? https://education.bodysex.com/forums/topic/bettys-process-in-creating-bodysex/#post-8788 Fri, 22 Nov 2024 03:45:27 -0500 Betty was so driven; She had so much power of conviction. I can feel the force in her as she goes from one experiment to the next. All very single-focused. She was not attached to the what she just knew the how (of wanting women to be connected to their orgasm.) I cannot imagine being such a strong voice in such an unsupportive general cultural…Read more

]]> 0 054aee1a619e4b865e130b7006dae2a5 Gretchen Verner replied to the topic Betty at the NOW Sexuality Conference in the forum Module 2: Who is Betty Dodson? https://education.bodysex.com/forums/topic/betty-at-the-now-sexuality-conference/#post-8730 Sun, 17 Nov 2024 02:16:43 -0500 I can’t think of much new to say in response!

I’m imagining that those women at the talk felt the same way I feel about Betty — grateful for what she gave to them. I love what someone said above — about gratitude on the personal and societal level. I personally feel Betty gave/is still giving women something that has been withheld–a greater of…Read more

]]> 0 c6098dcda3d8a4b0ac69232a58546161 Gretchen Verner replied to the topic Betty's Art in the forum Module 2: Who is Betty Dodson? https://education.bodysex.com/forums/topic/bettys-art/#post-7461 Fri, 26 Jan 2024 03:01:38 -0500 The piece I love seeing is “Missionary Position.” The way that they are both looking at the point of penetration reminds me of some very intense moments I had with a lover. He made a video so I could see “what he sees”– it was so intense for me to watch it. I started watching, like the woman in the drawing, and connecting more with with what was…Read more

]]> 0 606c3cc6b29b067ecc96d805214da753 Gretchen Verner replied to the topic Working Through Resistance in the forum Sex for One: The Joy of Selfloving https://education.bodysex.com/forums/topic/working-through-restance/#post-7403 Sat, 20 Jan 2024 22:54:02 -0500 I loved all of it. The writing feels so current. I think Carlin said “She was ahead of her time, and still is,” is so true. I want to work to bring this work into the NOW.

]]> 0 1bfd44dceeea3b503528cfda767d8400 Gretchen Verner replied to the topic What stood out for you while reading Sex for One? in the forum Sex for One: The Joy of Selfloving https://education.bodysex.com/forums/topic/what-stood-out-for-you-while-reading-sex-for-one/#post-7402 Sat, 20 Jan 2024 22:48:40 -0500 “The way women are made to conform to this sexual double-standard is through the deprivation of sexual self-knowledge…” (page 36)

“Deprived of a sexual relationship with ourselves, we are easier to manipulate.” (page 4) I felt these statements. I felt some anger and also some relief at having found my way to this material, even if in mid-life.…Read more

]]> 0 29f6bf8fa392773089fa01bdb49ce26b Gretchen Verner replied to the topic Bodysex Documentary in the forum Module 1: What is Bodysex? https://education.bodysex.com/forums/topic/bodysex-documentary/page/2/#post-7211 Sun, 14 Jan 2024 23:07:34 -0500 I got teary when the women were all together naked and masturbating in the final segment. That they were all comfortable enough with their bodies to be in the film and that they were all brave enough to be in the film. I couldn’t believe they went for it and I also felt indebted to them. “Thank you!” I felt like I was receiving the self-affirming…Read more

]]> 0 09a7a0cf92e122302c70316124857d05 Gretchen Verner replied to the topic What is Bodysex? in the forum Module 1: What is Bodysex? https://education.bodysex.com/forums/topic/what-is-bodysex/page/2/#post-7191 Sat, 13 Jan 2024 02:36:31 -0500 You put the right words to what I wanted to express.

]]> 0 3a2f1c63948755b9792dbc8a14ba2cc3 Gretchen Verner replied to the topic What is Bodysex? in the forum Module 1: What is Bodysex? https://education.bodysex.com/forums/topic/what-is-bodysex/page/2/#post-7190 Sat, 13 Jan 2024 02:32:40 -0500 Bodysex is a process to that reconnects women (and vulva-owners) with their vulvas so that we can return to being whole, complete beings. Bodysex normalizes of vulvas, gives women appreciation of vulvas and teaches techniques of self-pleasure. Bodysex gives each woman/VO a sense of herself/themself as a powerful sexual being and flips the script…Read more

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