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It only recently occurred to me that I should link to press-type stuff about me, or about the sex-positive film series I started, etc. For now I’ll just list interviews because I don’t want to track down other references … but if you’ve mentioned me or any of my projects in an article, please feel free to send me a link. I’m at [ clarisse.thorn at gmail dot com ].

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Hot Sox Podcast with Jamye Waxman (March 2012)
The awesome sex educator Jamye Waxman interviews me about my personal history with BDSM and polyamory, and of course my exciting new book Confessions of a Pickup Artist Chaser.

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Badass Activist Friday at The Line Campaign (January 2012)
More about me than you ever wanted to know! This is a rundown of everything from my career, to my opinions on feminism, to my opinions on BDSM, to my feelings about writing. The Line Campaign is a feminist anti-rape campaign; I screened their documentary “The Line” as part of my sex-positive film series.

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Kink on Tap #63: This Is Africa! (October 2010)
Another audio interview with my friend, the awesome BDSM activist Maymay, talking about male circumcision on Africa and a bunch of other stuff.

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Interview on BDSM and feminism on David Ortmann’s blogtalkradio show, Casual Sex (October 2010)
This audio interview streams automatically if you open the page, but you can also download the episode by clicking the small and easy-to-miss iTunes icon on the streaming bar (towards the middle of the page).

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SlutWalk Chicago interviews Sex Positive Chicagoan Clarisse Thorn (May 2011)
SlutWalk is a big anti-rape event that started in Toronto. The organizer of the Chicago version met me at a feminist event and asked to feature me on their blog.

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There's an enormous subculture of men who trade tips, tricks, and tactics for seducing women. Within the last half-decade or so, these underground "pickup artists" have burst into the popular consciousness, aided by Neil Strauss’s bestselling book The Game and VH1’s hit reality show The Pick-Up Artist. Some men in the seduction community are sleazy misogynists who want nothing more than power and control. Some are shy wallflowers who don't know how to say hi to a girl. The one thing they all have in common is a driving need to attract women.

Clarisse Thorn, a feminist S&M writer and activist, spent years researching these guys. She observed their discussions, watched them in action, and learned their strategies. By the end of it all, she'd given a lecture at a seduction convention and decided against becoming the next great dating coach. In Confessions of a Pickup Artist Chaser, Clarisse tells the story of her time among these Casanovas, as well as her own unorthodox experiences with sex and relationships. She examines the conflicts and harmonies of feminism, pickup artistry, and the S&M community. Most of all, she deconstructs and reconstructs our views on sex, love, and ethics -- and develops her own grand theory of the game.

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There She Is

A Chicago-based, feminist, pro-BDSM sex-positive activist. If you're curious about where I'm coming from, try reading my S&M coming-out story or my extensive tale of reaching orgasm. If you're a more theoretical type, try my post on Sex-Positive Feminist 101.

BDSM is a 6-for-4 deal of an acronym: Bondage/Discipline, Dominance/Submission, Sadism/Masochism. Here is my list of basic BDSM resources.

As of December 15, 2011, I edit the Sex + Relationships Section at the gender-lens website Role/Reboot. If you've got something to say about sex, relationships, and modern gender roles, feel free to pitch me your writing!

My presence in Bloglandia is often spotty. In the past I have posted at the group blog Feministe; here's the archive of my Feministe posts. I used to disseminate sex & gender news for Time Out Chicago; the archive of my Time Out Chicago "Love Bites" blog is still available.

If you're in Chicago, come to my pro-sex, pro-queer, pro-kink documentary film series! If you want me to come and do an event for you, here's a list of lectures, workshops and events I've done before -- also, I'm flexible and I'd be happy to think about developing a new presentation.

I'm available by email at clarisse dot thorn at gmail dot com.

Comments Policy

Thanks for reading my site. I love comments and I encourage you to contribute, but sometimes things can get pretty intense around here. So, in the interest of transparency, I want to explain my comments policy.

* If your comment looks like spam or advertising, I'll delete it.

* If your comment is extremely difficult to read (for example, 1000 words with no line breaks), then I'll delete it and leave a comment explaining why I deleted it.

* If you start pissing me off or disrupting an existing conversation in some other way, then I will explain what you're doing that bothers me; at that point, you have a chance to convince me that I'm being unfair, but you might not get more than one chance. People who are consistently annoying or disruptive will be put on moderation.

* If a given conversation becomes stressful for me, then I will close that conversation entirely.

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