Betty Dodson with Carlin Ross

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I am male, married, and raising daughters. My sexual history has been cautious and conservative. I have nothing to brag about, I have not hurt others, and no one has done something really bad to me.

I saw Sex for One in1988, in the the window display of a curious bookstore, in one of the wilder USA college towns. I hadread praise of her vulval art even earlier. In recent years, when I post about matters sexual on the Net, I tell people todiscover Betty.

My interest in human sexuality in stems largely from my belonging to an American sexual minority. Where and when I came of age, I was one of very very few uncircumcised boys. Baby Boom, Midwest, middle class, born in urban hospitals.

Until Mothering magazine began publishing anti-circ articles in the late 1970s, there was NO support in print for the American foreskin. So my parents told me nothing about why I looked different from my father and brothers. I became an intactivist upon reading Wallerstein (1980) and Romberg (1985) in the mid 1980s. I was so afraid of what an American woman would say upon seeing my penis that I did not lose my virginity until I was nearly 37 years old, to the woman I am now married to. She accepts me as I am because before meeting me, she had had 10 years' worth of intact lovers.