Mistress Matisse

A new Stranger column about a delicate matter: sex workers and race. Like many of my Stranger columns, it's a subject that deserves fa...

The Weather Outside Is Frightful The Mistress is cranky about the heat. I know, I know, I don't like snow , either. So persnickety am I....

Complete and unedited email I got recently... SUBJECT: my 3 guesses at what your fetish is that you indulge with Milo 1. He is an amput...

I am gearing up for a busy seven days, and they’re going to be rather split-second in terms of timing. And somewhat schizophrenic in nature....

Letters: Emotional Baggage I'm looking for guidance on trying to discover just the kind of submissive I am or if perhaps my feelings are...

I'm going to vent here for a moment about some internet silliness that occasionally happens to me. Here's how it works: someone post...

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...

Once again, I'm doing an informal survey from among the ladies of Seattle for a Stranger column. The subject is a delicate one - it'...

This one made me laugh because... I, um, know some people who doe that thing about storeing food and water and stuff for an earthquake or ...

Zombies. They’re sort of like bacon, aren’t they? (No, I don’t mean that you eat them. Everyone knows zombies eat us. We are the bacon, for...

I don’t blog about specific kinky products very much, just because every time I do, I get a flood of email from people wanting me to "r...

I uploaded a new podcast. In this one, Monk and I read and answer letters about polyamory. First, we talk about the not-so-good idea of com...

I meant to answer some letters today, but I was endlessly tweaking my column right up to deadline. So instead, just some pop culture notes a...

Read or Listen I uploaded a new podcast, here. First Monk and I read a letter about safewords, and make mention of my two favorite safewor...

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

Here's a confession that reveals me as either an optimist, or a masochist, I'm not sure which: I just read the newest Anita Blake bo...

Another episode of Family, the polyamory web-cast series... Enjoy. (If you like train-wrecks, that is. Yeek.) Amusing trivia: I've been ...

Yes Means Yes From the mailbag: This is an edited-down version of the letter, mainly because the original is very long and includes a lot of...

Another podcast! Now with extra perviness! In this episode, Monk and I do letters from readers, and talk about smaller-top/bigger-bottom str...

My take on David Carradine's death, in a new column on The Stranger. For your listening pleasure, Monk does a podcast with Dr. Dick! Mea...