Thanks so much for your website and the courage to come out into the open and celebrate masturbation like this. I am 36 and since age 11 I discovered that all-wonderful feeling of orgasm. We had a guy in class that was much older than the other boys and during recess showed us how to masturbate. At home I tried it myself after having a bath and experienced my first ever orgasm, without ejaculating anything! I was still too young but I did not know any better at the time. Anyway, I was hooked and frequently excused myself from class to stimulate my new found friend in the cloak roam.

My First Bodysex Workshop with Betty Dodson 

I only knew Betty for a few months when she asked me to travel with her to Copenhagen. Betty hadn't held one of her bodysex workshops in over 12 years and she was heading to Copenhagen to hold a new workshop with 13 soon-to-be-graduating sexologists. There was no way I was going to miss out on this!

Dear Betty

I have been interested in masturbation from a very early age, around 8, when I started noticing that I would get an erection when I played in the garden naked. Back then I had no idea what an erection was for, or how to deal with it. I just knew that it made me feel a new sensation, and it was difficult, because I needed release and had no idea how to achieve it. A little later in life I became obsessed with the idea until one day I discovered masturbation quite by accident...and experienced my first orgasm.

Dear Betty,

I'm a 53 year old male who has enjoyed masturbation since my early teens. Even during my marriage, I've enjoyed masturbating both solo and with my wife; however, she has never joined in and masturbated herself.

Where to start? I can't remember my first orgasm unfortunately, but I can remember when I started to notice some changes. 13. That's when things started to get "hairy" :) Right around that age is when I noticed that some things were for more than just going to the bathroom. When i found out that my dick got hard and why it did that I took notice. And i havent' stopped noticing since then. I remember those early years...I'd be sitting in class then all of a sudden I'd have to rearrange the bulge in my pants, then wait to get home to take care of it.

Hi, Betty~!

Having recently been liberated from the mores of my upbringing, I have now realized that I was only living a "partial" life! I am a post menopausal woman 62 yrs of age. As a young girl growing into young adulthood, I was reared in a home of the old fashioned nature. The process of maturing into a young woman was not discussed. I was never told what to expect of even the simplest issues puberty and the bodily functions of growing from a child to a young woman. I had to go the road alone.

I live in a large city in Australia and I'm married with three children. At around 5” my penis isn’t very big but no-one has ever complained about its lack of size. The truth is I enjoy my cock and try to keep it looking good. I trim my pubic hair to keep it neat and love wearing a soft rubber ring that squeezes my cock and pulls my balls forward increasing my pleasure when I masturbate. I was first shown how to masturbate by a friend when I was about 12 years old and haven’t stopped since.

I have been thinking of submitting pictures for several years now, but it wasn't until now I really did it.

I like my dick. It is just about perfect in size when it's hard and though it's quite small otherwise I feel comfortable with it at all times. Even if other people see it. There is a lot of foreskin which is so good when masturbating. Most of the time my pubic hair is as long as it gets, but once in a while I shave it all off.

I am a practicing consultant in internal medicine and has extensively reviewed literature on sexuality and masturbation.I believe that almost all of us have done masturbation or are still doing it. Mostly it is done privately and not talked about much because it considered socially embarrassing. During the adolescent years it is an adaptive response to our maturing sexuality . We explore our genitalia during childhood due to curiosity and pleasurable feelings.

As you know from my previous emails, I am now successful in achieving orgasm where I was not before. I now have another question. I know you say every woman's pussy is unique, but I have not yet seen one quite like mine either in your forum or other pictures. My inner lips hang sort of like flaps when the outer lips are pulled apart. My clitoris is hidden deep up inside of them even then, and when not pulled apart, it sort of looks like the longer flap is a tongue sticking out of my pussy. I once asked my OBG/YN who seemed rather uncomfortable when I did ask and skirted the question.