Mistress Matisse

A link to my latest Stranger column: an interview with Sex At Dawn author Christopher Ryan, about life after one's book is published. An...

I realize I'm cannibalizing myself here a fair amount lately. What can I say? I have phases where I want to write a lot, and then phases...

I found out today that Jezebel.com wants to link to my latest Stranger column: The Great Polyamory vs Polyfuckery Debate. I'm charmed ...

I forget sometimes that there's a whole little section of columns I've written for The Stranger that do not appear under my byline i...

As the readers of my Twitter already know, I'm out of town for a few days. I'm enjoying a few days in Chicago with an intimate compa...

Even more than I want to kiss Matthew Inman , I want to kiss this cartoonist for drawing this cartoon. Because I feel this way ALL the time,...

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...

Letters To The Mistress Dear Mistress Matisse Why is the BDSM community so reverse-sexist? I have seen your columns about people abusing sla...

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...

From The Mailbag Mistress Matisse: I read your column often and was glad to see you reminding erotic/sex workers that they flourished before...

Hello, my lovely readers... Here's a link to my latest Stranger column, in which I smack some of my professional colleagues with Mistres...

From The Mailbag This is an interesting question. I can give my take on it, but I have no specialized knowledge of the issue. If any of you ...

Now and then, I get emails from kind readers saying, "Hey, isn't this your picture? Did you know this person had it on his/her site...

BDSM techniques, in today’s new podcast: Monk and I answer a reader letter about putting Altoid mints and Listerine Breath Strips in female...

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

From The Mailbox A little over a year ago you wrote a column about connecting with your strap-on and taking control. I did not read this art...

Since my return from Georgia Tuesday, I've been spending time relaxing and enjoying the sensual pleasures of these late-summer days. Mor...

Ah, the miracle of the internet. From a sunny front porch overlooking the ocean, I give you: a new Stranger column, about a subject dear to ...

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...