Mistress Matisse

The newest Stranger column, about the Edward Bagley case in Missouri. I have some strong opinions about people who take my culture and do b...

The latest installment of the web-cast series about polyamory, Family. I can't say I really understand where this is going, plot-wise. B...

I just watched this video from CNBC about “high-end prostitution”. And it made me roll my eyes a lot. Okay, on one hand, it’s really not bad...

Here's my new column in this week's Stranger. Enjoy!

A number of alert readers sent me links to some version of this story. Yowch! I posted a little over a year ago about how I do indeed have...

The newest installment of the web series about a polyamorous triad, Family. I was pleased to see that they got some good press in the Seattl...

Wow, there's a lot of kinky stuff going on this weekend. The perma-fabulous Midori is in town! She's hosting the annual Bang For The...

I’d like to make some clarification about my stance on “sex work in the news” stories. It’s one thing to comment at length on certain types ...

A nice opinion column from Seattle PI writer Cathy Sorbo on how we should decriminalize prostitution. Pleasant to see it in a mainstream da...

There’s a lot of sex worker stuff in the news lately, isn’t there? So yes, I’ve been reading about the busts at the tanning salon/brothels o...

I am disgusted by the smear job KOMO news tried to do on the Wet Spot (The Sex Positive Community Center) last night. It was a terrible pie...

A few notes for the coming days... Foot-lovers, remember the Footnight party this Thursday! *** There continues to be a fuss in certain sex ...

I have gotten so many emails about Craiglist's supposed "crackdown" on prostitution that I thought I'd give you all a qui...

You know, I usually try to not resort to profanity and personal insults when I have a negative opinion about someone. I feel it’s a failure ...

Greetings from San Francisco... We are having a perfectly lovely kinky time down here. The weather for Folsom Street Fair was great, and t...

“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” Inigo Montoya, The Princess Bride Dear Mainstream Media, Well, ...

Politics: Huh. Apparently the two qualifications for being vice-president of the United States are a) boobs and b) a snarky turn of phrase...

Dear Mainstream Media, Can we talk? Okay. You know I love you, but you have to get with it, image-wise. I have spoken to you before about th...