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Babou Betty
Babou Betty

Baubo is one of many wild Grecian goddesses of sacred sexuality, the Crone- a wise old woman who is full of irreverent joy and comically lewd behavior. She has also been called the belly goddess of laughter and obscenity. A refreshing contrast to most contemporary images of old age, Baubo represents three aspects of women's lives: old age, sexuality, and transformative personal power though sexual liberation. Instead of an old woman ravaged by time with nothing about her that is remotely sexual, Baubo radiates her Crone sexual energy with a functioning postmenopausal orgasmic vulva! This last concept upsets all societies that scorn or totally deny older women's sexuality.

In the Greek myth of Demeter, the goddess of agriculture turns the earth barren in her sorrow after her daughter Persephone is abducted by Hades, god of the underworld. Baubo appears as a compassionate healer with the wisdom to understand Demeter's need to break free of her depression as she mourns the loss of her daughter. While Baubo begins to dance around the goddess, she lifts her skirt and flashes her old cunt sending Demeter into peals of belly laughter. Once Demeter gets a little distance from her sorrow, the affirmation of joy and laughter lifts her depression and the crops begin to grow again. Baubo's image is especially important for all postmenopausal women who mourn the loss of their youthful fertile selves. She reminds us to relish sex, love, and laughter well into our old age.

For over forty years I've summoned Baubo's energy using bawdy humor and laughter to help women break through feelings of shyness, sexual guilt and concerns about being "normal" because they don't look like the latest porn star that's been surgically altered by reducing her inner labia among numerous other cosmetic changes. Or they can't have vaginal orgasms and have never seen their own clitorises and have never masturbated. Laughter changes a woman's frame of mind and at that point, she can receive new information about her body, her genitals, and her sexuality. It's an honor to be Baubo Betty.

Like many women, my relationship with my vulva was troubled in the beginning. I thought I'd stretched my inner lips from too much childhood masturbation. Finally at the age of 35, my post-marital lover convinced me I had a beautiful cunt. Since then, she's had her portrait painted in oil, pencil, pen & ink and photographed. She has performed "live" in hundreds of workshops, as well as appeared in several educational DVD's. She has financially contributed to my support with a book based on my relationship with her. When I think of all she's given me, including countless pleasurable orgasms, I could never thank her adequately enough.

In my early seventies workshops during the Genital Show & Tell ritual, I turned my vulva into a talking puppet by stretching out my inner labia and introducing her as "Clitty Anne". Using bawdy humor and laughter helped women break through feelings of shyness and concerns about being "normal". Many young women today continue to believe something is wrong with their genitals because they don't look like the latest porn star that's been surgically altered by trimming her inner lips to create the "clamshell look". It's an honor to be Baubo Betty sharing this important transformative sexual information with women in my workshops, private sessions, books, DVD's, and now with my website that travels throughout the World Wide Web.

I am celebrating my 80th birthday August 2009 by entering my own Genital Art Gallery with an image of my Crone vulva. Each year I struggle to hold onto my commitment to embrace aging and find the courage to be truthful about every year I add. Many friends have asked me why tell the truth about my age when I look much younger? My answer is that I believe celebrating my true age enables me to represent Baubo's transformative message and healing for young and old women alike. So here I go again, lifting my skirt to flash old pussy!