Mistress Matisse

Just to show ya'll that I have not abandoned you: a repost of a scene Jae and I reminisced about the other day - spanking the Bicycle Ma...

I've been really bad about not updating recently. And this URL is due for a big overhaul soon, so if you see it changing, don't pani...

Two important points before you read this. One: in this blog post, I make some sweeping, gender-based generalizations, and I make them in a ...

The latest Stranger column, about unproductive behaviors that certain types of male/female couples fall into, when seeking a woman to join t...

I have a new Stranger column up, and I’m expecting some blowback from it, either on the Stranger page or elsewhere on the web, because I am ...

A random silly story… Regular readers know I like champagne, and lately one of my favorite brands has become hard to find. Billecart-Salmon ...

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...