{"id":53673,"date":"2012-02-22T10:56:02","date_gmt":"2012-02-22T15:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=53673"},"modified":"2012-03-28T11:48:55","modified_gmt":"2012-03-28T15:48:55","slug":"planet-waves-fm-the-fire-breathing-fish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/planet-waves-fm\/planet-waves-fm-the-fire-breathing-fish\/","title":{"rendered":"Planet Waves FM: The Fire Breathing Fish"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-53673-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/planetwaves.fm\/podcast\/120222podcast.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/planetwaves.fm\/podcast\/120222podcast.mp3\">http:\/\/planetwaves.fm\/podcast\/120222podcast.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>Today&#8217;s edition of Planet Waves FM was recorded Tuesday right before the Pisces New Moon, by your host, the Fire Breathing Fish. It morphs from a reading of the New Moon chart into a rant on women&#8217;s autonomy and what used to be called reproductive rights. Casting the issue as total sovereignty is more accurate. But it lacks a certain appeal &#8212; where there are rights, there are responsibilities. Privilege without a corresponding sense of duty is inherently toxic &#8212; and even well-bred royalty know this. If we&#8217;re wondering why any woman is willing to give up her rights, her autonomy or her sovereignty, the answer may be found in her relationship to being a steward of her own body and the power that it contains.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_53675\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53675\" style=\"width: 365px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/375+web+dodson_lakshmi_6862.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-53675\" title=\"375+web+dodson_lakshmi_6862\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/375+web+dodson_lakshmi_6862.jpg?resize=375%2C269&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/375+web+dodson_lakshmi_6862.jpg?w=375&amp;ssl=1 375w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/375+web+dodson_lakshmi_6862.jpg?resize=300%2C215&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-53675\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Virgo Squad -- Betty Dodson, right, with Planet Waves friend and contributor Beth Bagner.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>At a certain point in the podcast I launch into a tirade on the religious &#8216;right&#8217; doing its takedown of women, and then describe a new video by my mentor and friend Betty Dodson. She&#8217;s recently come out with a new video in her series on women&#8217;s sexuality, a documentary of one of her bodysex workshops.<\/p>\n<p>I <a href=\"http:\/\/dodsonandross.com\/product\/betty-dodsons-bodysex-workshop-dvd-bs01\" target=\"_blank\">highly recommend this video<\/a> and I will be reviewing it more thoroughly soon. I recognize that it&#8217;s $40 so I suggest you go in with a few friends and make an evening or two of it. What this DVD offers is a model for a sane conversation about sex and sexuality. If nothing else, we get a model for how to think and how to speak &#8212; in an original way, but within a framework that includes boundaries, a sense of purpose and most important, a sense of humor.<\/p>\n<p>It includes discussion of body image, sexual evolution, making choices, the struggle with sex within relationships and many other topics. Part of the problem we face is that we don&#8217;t know how to talk about sex, we&#8217;re embarrassed to do so, it rarely happens so we don&#8217;t get any practice, and we&#8217;re afraid that Western civilization (or at least our relationship) will collapse if we even try. I guess we will have to see.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s twenty-sodding-twelve and we&#8217;re really discussing whether people have a right to use birth control? Or rather a bunch of men who want to take public office and be commander-in-chief are discussing whether they think women have a right to use birth control? Most of the time I look at this and I cannot believe it&#8217;s even happening.<\/p>\n<p>I recommend all of Betty&#8217;s videos but my personal favorite is <a href=\"http:\/\/dodsonandross.com\/product\/betty-dodson-her-life-sex-and-art-lsa17\" target=\"_blank\">Her Life of Sex and Art<\/a>, a frank (and frankly hilarious) talk given by Betty in good old politically correct, may I please glance at you Seattle. This is Betty at her most authentic and spontaneous &#8212; an off the cuff description of her life, that is, her life of art and sex. This DVD is $10 and it&#8217;s nothing but fun. If you would like to read more about Betty, <a href=\"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/happy-80th-birthday-betty-dodson\/\" target=\"_blank\">here is one of my articles about her<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Lovingly,<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Planet Waves\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.planetwavesweekly.com\/resources\/images\/sign_white.jpg?resize=185%2C45&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Eric Francis\" width=\"185\" height=\"45\" vspace=\"10\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Note to readers<\/strong> &#8212; there are many more podcasts, the full archives, recordings and interviews from astrology conferences and much more at the <a href=\"http:\/\/planetwaves.fm\/\" target=\"_blank\">Planet Waves FM homepage<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/planetwaves.fm\/podcast\/120222podcast.mp3 Today&#8217;s edition of Planet Waves FM was recorded Tuesday right before the Pisces New Moon, by your host, the Fire Breathing Fish. It morphs from a reading of the New Moon chart into a rant on women&#8217;s autonomy and what used to be called reproductive rights. Casting the issue as total sovereignty is more &#8230; <a title=\"Planet Waves FM: The Fire Breathing Fish\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/planet-waves-fm\/planet-waves-fm-the-fire-breathing-fish\/\" aria-label=\"More on Planet Waves FM: The Fire Breathing Fish\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1735],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53673"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}