Clinical Holistic Medicine: Teaching Orgasm for Females with Chronic Anorgasmia using the Betty Dodson Method

Abstract

The objective of this study was to test the Betty Dodson method of breaking the female orgasm barrier in chronic anorgasmic women. The aim was sexual and existential healing (salutogenesis) through direct confrontation and integration of both the repressed shame, guilt, and other negative feelings associated with body, genitals, and sexuality, and the repressed sexual pleasure and desire. We conducted a retrospective analysis of clinic data from holistic sexological manual therapeutic intervention, an intensive subtype of clinical holistic medicine (CHM). The patients received 3 × 5 h of group therapy, integrating short-term psychodynamic psychotherapy (STPP) and complementary medicine (CAM bodywork, manual sexology similar to the “sexological examination”). The therapy used the advanced tools of reparenting, genital acceptance, acceptance through touch, and direct sexual clitoral stimulation. A clitoral vibrator was used. Participants were 500 female patients between 18 and 88 years of age (mean of 35 years) with chronic anorgasmia (for 12 years on average) who were participating in the “orgasm course for anorgasmic women”; 25% of the patients had never experienced an orgasm. Our results show that 465 patients (93%) had an orgasm during therapy, witnessed by the therapist, and 35 patients (7%) did not. Postmenopausal women were as able to achieve orgasm as fertile women, as were women who never had an orgasm. No patients had detectable negative side effects or adverse effects. NNT: 1.04 < NNT < 1.12, NNH > 500. Therapeutic value: TV = NNH/NNT > 446. Our conclusions are that holistic sexological manual therapy may be rational, safe, ethical, and efficient.

Prevalence and Characteristics of Vibrator Use by Men in the United States

“…Recent data indicate that 52.5% of women in the United States have used a vibrator, and approximately 40% have done so with a sexual partner [13]. It is not surprising that vibrator use appears to be more prevalent among women than men, particularly given the extent to which they are more frequently marketed to women through diverse and often women-focused venues (e.g., in-home sex toy parties) and often recommended as an adjunct to treatment for female sexual dysfunction [3,[7][8][9][10][33][34][35][36][37][38].…”

“…Men who had used vibrators were more likely to be married or living with their sexual partner (P < 0.001) and to be employed full time (P < 0.01). They were also more likely to be in the [30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44] year age (P < 0.001), yet the mean ages of men within each of the four vibrator use categories (past month, past year, >1 year ago, and never) were not significantly different. Vibrator users were less likely to report attending religious services on a weekly basis (P < 0.01), or to identify their political orientation as conservative (P < 0.01).…”

Quality of Life as Medicine: Interventions that Induce Salutogenesis. A Review of the Literature

“…The area where improvement of QOL has been most reliably reproduced is in sexology (Graber and Kline-Graber 1979;Grafenberg 1950;Halvorsen & Metz 1992;Hamilton 1978Hamilton , 2008Hartman & Fithian 1972, 2008Hoch 1982Hoch , 1996Heiman & Meston 1997;Kegel 1948Kegel , 1952Kline-Graber & Graber 1975;Polden & Mantle 1990;Ventegodt et al 2006;Struck & Ventegodt 2008). Already Hippocrates and his students treated patients with sexual dysfunction and psychosexual developmental disturbances using genital massage.…”

“…Reich believed that the sexual energy was blocked on both a genital and a bodily level, and used bodywork to release them. Recently anorgasmia has been successfully cured with supervised masturbation and with direct sexual stimulation, as in the gynecological examination (Graber & Kline-Graber 1979;Grafenberg 1950;Halvorsen & Metz 1992;Hamilton 1978Hamilton , 2008Hartman & Fithian 1972;Hoch 1982Hoch , 1996Heiman & Meston 1997;Kegel 1948Kegel , 1952Kline-Graber & Graber 1975;Polden & Mantle 1990) or in the Dodson method (Struck & Ventegodt 2008).…”

Erotic mindfulness: A core educational and therapeutic strategy in somatic sexology practices

“…Additionally, Danish researchers have found masturbation coaching to be highly efficacious in helping women suffering from anorgasmia. In a study conducted with a sample of 500 anorgasmic women in Denmark, 93% of participants experienced success in achieving orgasm through masturbation coaching (see more detailed presentation of the study on p. 8; Struck & Ventegodt, 2008).…”