Mistress Matisse

What am I reading lately? A little of everything… I bought, but have not read yet, this one: In the Devil's Garden: A Sinful History of ...

From The Archive Last year on this date, I posted what is surely one of the most charming photos ever taken of an action-movie hero: Makes m...

While I zoom off to Las Vegas, here's my latest column in The Stranger, about the passing of a Seattle sex landmark, The Lusty Lady. Bye...

The first sample from the shoot on Tuesday... I don't have the CD's from the shoot yet - but Craig was kind enough to email me a pre...

I was tired of having the old post still be at the top of the blog. But I'm out of town, I'm writing a Stranger column, and I have a...

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...

Under My Protection and Collars of Consideration I saw some questions about this on a kink community board I’m on, so I’m using them as a b...

Another letter, because there’s a bunch of them stacked up in the mailbox…. This came to "Mistress Matisse and Twisted Monk", but ...

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...

Letters: Advice From An Expert So today, I decided to let my very best friend in the whole world take a crack at the Letters file. In addit...

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,...

Time for another podcast! In this one, Monk reads an original poem – or at least, we hope it is original – sent to him by a reader. And he r...

Back in Seattle, and busy catching up on my life. Because of all my travel recently, I had to regretfully turn down far too many charming in...

A new Stranger column is up - this one about that very annoying "You're Kinky? You Must Have Been Abused As A Child" myth... ...

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’m excited about what’s happening in my dungeon today: I’m getting the carpet swapped out! No, that's not some bit of sexual slang, I m...

Another podcast, and another riff from Monk about how I’m playing with my nipple. Even though I’m not. Then, letters: the first is from a l...

I love this fun and informative graphic about men's sperm. I have only one thing to add: pineapple. For men and women, pineapple makes a...

I have a new column in The Stranger about a topic I'm frequently asked for help with: handling intense jealousy. *** And a calendar note...