* Greatest Hits
I’m just what I say I am.
I can always be reached at [ clarisse.thorn at gmail dot com ]. Here are some of my available lectures, workshops and events. You can navigate my posts by subject if you look for the “tag” box on the right-hand side of this page.
And here are some of my greatest hits …
My Top 3 Posts
Love Bites: An S&M Coming-Out Story
Towards My Personal Sex-Positive Feminist 101
Table of Contents
Okay, so at first this page was supposed to be just my best work, but it turned into a list of all the posts I’ve written that I liked, which most of them. I’ve tried to organize them into categories (though, realistically, most posts are in more than one category). My favorites in each category are at the top of that category.
Categories:
* Storytime and Personal Experience
* BDSM Theory
* Polyamory and/or Monogamy Theory
* Manliness, also Pickup Artists
* Sex Work and Pornography
* Feminism and Other Activism
* Et Cetera
Storytime and Personal Experience
Fear, Loathing, and S&M Sluthood in San Francisco
I’m Not Your Sex-Crazy Nympho Dreamgirl
How To Break Up and Take It Like a Champ
A 16-Year-Old Kinkster Who Wants “A Sense Of Personal Integrity”
Guilt, Failure and a Pre-Orgasmic Feminist
Switching: Have I Always Been a Domme?
Sexual Openness: 2 Ways To Encourage It
How my life wasn’t always Happy Fun Boundaries Are Perfect Land
BDSM Theory
The Annotated Safeword (with Thomas MacAulay Millar)
BDSM As A Sexual Orientation, and Complications of the Orientation Model
BDSM versus Sex, Part 1: Political Concerns and Part 2: How Does It Feel?
Sex Communication Case Studies
Sex Communication Tactic Derived from S&M #1: Checklists
Thinking Clearly About BDSM versus Abuse
The Alt Sex Anti-Abuse Dream Team
BDSM Roles, “Topping from the Bottom”, and “Service Top”
5 Sources of Assumptions and Biases About S&M
Start From A Position of Strength
Why I Pretend I Don’t Date Vanilla-But-Questioning Men
(The First of Several Posts On) BDSM-Related Relationship Screwups
Polyamory and/or Monogamy Theory
My Top Questions about Dealing with Multiple Lovers
Manliness, also Pickup Artists
Guest Post: Detrimental Attitudes of the Pickup Artist Community
Men Don’t Deserve the Word “Creep”
(The First Post From) The Series on Masculinity that Kicked Up Such A Fuss
Sex Work and Pornography
Sympathy for the Anti-Porn Feminists
A Lone Villain [Pornographer] Working Within an Evil Empire
Feminism and Other Activism
Liberal, Sex-Positive Sex Education: What’s Missing
“Inherent Female Submission”: The Wrong Question
“There Is No ‘Should’” and the Sex-Positive “Agenda”
Grassroots Organizing for Feminism, S&M, HIV, and everything else
Social Responsibility, Activism, and Giving Thanks
I Know I Can Fight Rape Culture By … (on Feministe)
Sex-Positive Women Aren’t Out To Steal Your Man
The Archives of Everything I’ve Posted to Feministe
Et Cetera
Some of My Experiences in Africa
The Ongoing Sex-Positive Film Series I Founded at Chicago’s Own Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
How To Start Your Own Sex-Positive Film Series
My Activities & Featured Ephemera from the Leather Archives
The Archives of My Former Sex & Gender Linkblog at Time Out Chicago
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