For more than 20 years, Betty Dodson has been dedicated to taking the shame out of masturbation, showing it to be a healthy form of sexual expression. With warmth and intelligence and informative line drawings, Dodson explains how anyone can learn to fully enjoy the pleasures of self-love pointing out that masturbation is still the safest sex.

This book is graphic. Betty Dodson is definitely for masturbation, or whatever makes a person happy sexually. If you have been scared of masturbation, this is a good book to read. She helps women understand their body and finding their own body beautiful and special.

So highly personal in its approach, Sex for One is a document of Dodson's strength growth understanding and unfailing good humor. This is an absolutely essential book and should be required reading for an adequate education in human sexuality. Even if you think of yourself as an expert on the subject, you'll learn things you didn't know about the safest sex. And you'll get a clear insight into the psyche of one of this century's most intrepid explorers of the self.

Paperback: 208 pages. Three Rivers Press