Bettina In The News

Bettina with Canberra student demonstrators

Bettina talks about pornography on Mamamia (Sky News Australia)

Bettina on ABC talk back in Melbourne. Let's talk about sex (or the lack there of).

Bettina featured in photographer Diane Macdonald's collection of Positively Remarkable Women.

Bettina described as 'the Paton Saint of Australian Men' in WAToday.com.au.

'Ita's Erotic Capital' Bettina talks on the Today Show about her recent Putting erotic capital to work in the workplace article in The Australian.

The Arndt of Sex. Fierce reaction to Lust for Life article plus great discussion.

Clinging to sexual stereotypes demeans men and women. Reaction to Bettina's Lust for Life story in The Age.

Demonstrators angry over Bettina's ANU talk. Canberra Times

News story from The Canberra Times on Bettina's meeting with demonstrators. "Arndt, students consent to disagreement."

"Speak not of what you know." Story on the ANU fuss in The Drum

Bettina talks on Robin William's Ockham's Razor program on Radio National about the scourge of AMI.

Interview with Jane Hutcheon on ABC 24's One Plus One program. "Bettina Arndt tells us why she's not afraid to tell us what men want"

News Stories on What Men Want

Bettina does talkback on Saturday morning in Melbourne

"We took what some thought might be a risk by having sex therapist Bettina Arndt on the radio on a Saturday morning... and you loved it!" Listen to the radio interview

Good Weekend Profile on Bettina

"You never see men getting up and saying, 'Sex is terrific.' They never talk about it." Why not? They don't dare, according to Arndt. Their libido is an embarrassment to them – "because that's the only way it plays out in our community, as a source of shame." – Profile on Bettina published in Good Weekend, SMH and The Age, August 28, 2010. Download the article

Bettina's speech to the National Press Club, on the ABC's Big Ideas program.

"At this National Press Club talk, Arndt launches a campaign to end this discrimination against male cancer victims, a move backed by The Urological Society of Australian and New Zealand and the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia." Watch the video on ABC

Profile in The Australian Women's Weekly

Note to readers from Bettina – This extraordinary profile is by David Leser, a writer from Byron Bay, who was determined to present me as a fire-eating, conservative old dragon lady. He fails to mention that the reason I became so annoyed with him was that during our two hour discussion he proudly announced he didn't believe in social science research – somewhat irritating for a woman who has spent her professional life interpreting this type of data. His article is full of deliberate inaccuracies, i.e my Four Corners program was not about rape but about sexual negotiation in ordinary relationships. The business about the flashers referred to a treatment program run by psychologists at the University of NSW. He conveniently omits mention of the fact that I sent him the solid research which shows defacto relationships are less stable than marriages. And he somehow forgot that I have spent much of my life writing about women as well as men – including recently spending two years writing features for The Australian Women's Weekly. All pretty typical stuff from a writer renowned for pushing his own agendas. Download the article

Bettina And Tony Blair on Richard Fidler's Conversation Hour

"Sex therapist and social commentator Bettina Arndt became well-known early on in her career for her frank and fearless comments about sex on TV and radio". Listen to the interview

PRO BONER – Interview with Bettina in Australian Penthouse

"Australian Penthouse stopped in at sex therapist Bettina Arndt's house to celebrate erections and sort through all the scandal." Download the article

The Secret Life of Men – Article in News Ltd Sunday papers by Bettina

"The secrets that emerged when these 150 men agreed to talk about their sex lives were amazing: the man who wears his wife's underwear beneath his bowling shorts; the man who left his marriage after 19 years of no sex; the happily married men who occasionally sleep with other men; the 40-year-old who frolicked with his elderly lover in her nursing home." Article by Bettina published in Sunday magazine in News Limited papers, August 29. Download the article

Opinion column by Bettina

"A breakdown in a man's sexual equipment can be just as emotionally harrowing as a woman losing a breast." Opinion column published in Adelaide Advertiser. Download the article

Review in The Canberra Times – Standing Up for Men

"If I were a middle-aged man afflicted with erectile dysfunction or premature ejaculation, or if I were an older man with prostate cancer wondering which treatment to pursue, I'd appreciate the squeamish-making information contained in this book." Canberra Times, September 28. Download the artcile

Lifematters on erections and prostate cancer

Talkback with Bettina: on sex after prostate cancer. Lifematters, Radio National, Sept 3. Listen to the interview