Magazine articles on What Men Want
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
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
Notebook Magazine. September, 2010
"Five things You Should Know – Bettina Arndt on Sex and Desire." Download the article