{"id":61013,"date":"2012-09-02T13:38:23","date_gmt":"2012-09-02T17:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=61013"},"modified":"2012-09-02T18:34:10","modified_gmt":"2012-09-02T22:34:10","slug":"smile-bitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/smile-bitch\/","title":{"rendered":"Smile, Bitch!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Carlin Ross and Betty Dodson. Photo by Eric Francis.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Carlin Ross jabs Betty Dodson in the ribs to get her to smile during a photo session Friday afternoon in Betty’s office. It worked, more or less. Betty is the person who “single handedly” gave women permission to masturbate, taught untold thousands of them how to do it, unraveled that insidious thing called body shame, and introduced the concept sexpositive<\/em> to feminism. All of these third- and fourth-wave feminists, including woman-centered porno directors, who get and express that sex is part of being an independent woman, owe (for lack of a better word) a big thank you to Dodson, who turned 83 a week ago. I suspect that there have always been scrappy, brilliant woman artists of Dodson’s caliber around, who refuse to be told what to do…in our era…Betty busted down a certain wall with her talent, her love and her persistence. If you want to read a fun, borderline controversial website, check out dodsonandross.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Carlin Ross jabs Betty Dodson in the ribs to get her to smile during a photo session Friday afternoon in Betty’s office. It worked, more or less. Betty is the person who “single handedly” gave women permission to masturbate, taught untold thousands of them how to do it, unraveled that insidious thing called body shame, … 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":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61013"}],"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=61013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}