Dear Dr. Betty:

Like so many people who send letters or emails to you, your books Liberating Masturbation and Sex for One, influenced me a lot. I masturbated quite early in my life but always felt guilty. Before there were computers for common people like me, I read an article about your Liberating Masturbation in Ms. Magazine. I ordered a copy and rented a P.O. Box so that my family wouldn't see I was receiving "smut" (in case you had advertising on the cover).

I must use the word "thrill" again - to describe what I felt when you said clearly to all women - masturbation was a natural and healthy sexual act. Furthermore, you made it clear that women needed clitoral stimulation in order to have an orgasm and many women needed the extra stimulation of a vibrator especially when they have intercourse.

Aside from my great relief, I no longer had to feel guilty about masturbation, and your message about having intercourse came just in time. Despite my successful masturbation, I was finding that I couldn't have an orgasm from intercourse alone! A vibrator solved the problem. In the following years, I think I bought at least 5 or 6 copies of your Sex for One for friends of mine.

Betty, I feel privileged to show off my cunt for your cause.

Love, Bobbi