Mistress Matisse

Originally Published 2007 Ok, so I have to tell you an amusing story about an elevator encounter I had this past weekend... Or more accur...

Massage and Misdirection I have gotten – as I presumed I would – a lot of replies to the post yesterday about sex workers using the word mas...

Sex Workers and Money Management "Dear Mistress Matisse... (Edited for length, but some nice compliments, thank you!) ... I am in searc...

What Do You Do? A pal of mine asked me a question yesterday, and I’m just going to pop off an answer here. This will not be the most polishe...

A new podcast! First, Monk and I have a brief discussion about our ability to fight off an attack by maniacal clowns. Then we answer a lette...

A look back at old posts in the much-beloved silly-phone-calls archive, 2004: A Near-Goddess Experience. (Follow and read the linked posted...

Special People Dear Mistress Matisse, I am contacting you for some advice about getting started as a courtesan. I've been trying to navi...

Archives I went back through the blog archives to see what I was writing about around this date in years gone by. I found an entry talking a...

A new column in The Stranger, which poses (and, to some degree, answers) the question: so what are all the freshly unemployed strippers in S...

Letters To The Mistress (Edited for length, and for identifying details) Hello Mistress Matisse, I recently attempted to make a foray into t...

Hey there ladies! I'd like to speak to some women who worked at Honey's in Everett, Rick's in Seattle, Sugar's in Shoreline,...

This blog post will not make much sense to you if you didn ’t read my column last week , and the blog post that went with it . You also nee...

Today, a selection from the dusty vaults: a blog post from this date (more or less) five years ago. It’s not exactly a phone calls post, bu...

Here's my newest column in The Stranger. It's a review of a book called "Whip Smart" by Melissa Febos. Before you go read,...

If you’re a sex worker who likes her career, and if you talk about it and read other people’s thoughts about it at all, there comes a point ...

I amused myself by going into the blog archives to see what I was writing about on January 20th in 2005. It turned out to be one of the Sill...

A post inspired by a brief conversation with a friend: why you should not write client data down. I have known sex workers who kept records....

Let me tell you a story… Some years back, I used to do a lot of photography. I miss it, but it’s a hobby I just don’t have time for anymore....