History of Feminism

The Queen of self knowledge...love the woman. She has books and for all I know videos. She's been teaching women how to pleasure themselves and overcome negative teaching for many years.

Good luck and how wonderful your friend has you to guide and encourage her.

Here is some wiki information to get you started.

Originally from Kansas, Dodson came to New York City to train as an artist in 1950, and has lived on Manhattan's Madison Avenue since 1962.[1] In 1959 Dodson married Frederick Stern, an advertising director, with the marriage ending in divorce in 1965.[1] Dodson's quest for "sexual self-discovery" began after her divorce.[1] Dodson held the first one-woman show of erotic art at the Wickersham Gallery in New York City in 1968. She left the art world to teach sex to women. She is widely known as a pioneer in women's, and to a somewhat lesser extent men's, sexual liberation, having sold more than 1 million copies of her first book, Sex for One.

Much of her fame has come from her work not only advocating masturbation, but conducting workshops for more than 30 years in which groups of about 10 or more women (and at least once a group of men) would talk, explore their own bodies, and masturbate together. She hosted a Public-access television cable television program in New York City in the early 1980s, and conducted her workshop – a dozen or so nude women discussing and practicing masturbation – on TV.[citation needed] Her Web site, called "Betty Dodson's Genital Gallery", shows many films of masturbation and intercourse, with close-up views of genitals.

She is a founder of the pro-sex feminist movement,[citation needed] having left behind the more traditional feminist movement, because she considered it banal, antisexual and over-politicized. Dodson considers too much is made of sexual labels and embraces them all by calling herself a heterosexual, bisexual lesbian. She looks forward to the day we can all be just "sexual."[2] In recent years she has criticized Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues, which she believes has a negative and restrictive view of sexuality and an anti-male bias.[3]

Dodson earned a degree from the Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality for her research work on sexuality.[4]

Dodson published a memoir, My Romantic Love Wars, in 2010.[1]

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Dodson

Don't let her scare you, she's a free thinker! I found her books very helpful back in the day.
She deals with all the negative messages we learn so self love starts in your head...and she goes from there.

I have no idea why the formatting is so messed up....lol