by members of Samois, a lesbian/feminist BDSM organization. 'For DAVID & JERRY & CYNTHIA & MARK & now CHRISTOPHER too.' Coming to Power. 'Hold Me Down So I Can Fly.' The Second Coming: A Leatherdyke Reader. The Persistent Desire: A Femme-Butch Reader. 'Roll Me Over and Make Me a Rose' and 'Dress Shirt'. Poems under the name Scarlet Woman and Dossie Easton in works edited by Patrick Califia, Joan Nestle ( The Persistent Desire), Leslea Newman ( The Femme Mystique).The Ethical Slut: A Practical Guide to Polyamory, Open Relationships & Other Freedoms in Sex and Love. The Ethical Slut: A Practical Guide to Polyamory, Open Relationships & Other Adventures. A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities. Hardy, Radical Ecstasy: S/M Journeys to Transcendence. Her books have been cited as fundamental to the polyamory movement. In 1969, Easton made the decision never to enter into a monogamous relationship again.

She also is or has been a member of other well-known BDSM organizations such as The Outcasts, Exiles, and Black Leather Wings, a radical faerie group. She is an inductee of the Society of Janus Hall of Fame. She was a member of the first board of directors of the Society of Janus in 1974, and is a life member. She has worked in battered women's centers and mental health clinics in Santa Cruz, Sunnyvale, and San Francisco. She had a radio show on sexuality on KPOO San Francisco from 1973 to 1975 called 'Get in Touch', as Mandy Jenkins. She worked at the Haight Ashbury Free Clinic Psych Annex in 1968 as a psychedelic crisis guide, and she worked with San Francisco Sex Information for several years, beginning in 1972. Her bachelor's thesis was titled Sex is Nice and Pleasure is Good for You. is from New College of California, 1975 MA in Education and Counseling from University of San Francisco, 1989 Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, 1991, USF. She has been a plenary or keynote speaker at many conferences, including conferences of the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors and Therapists ( AASECT), the Society for the Scientific Study of Sex, and the University of Hamburg.Įaston has given presentations at many colleges and universities, including University of California, Santa Cruz Bryn Mawr College University of California, Berkeley Mills College Pomona College and San Francisco State University. Background Įaston is a non-fiction author and poet. She is polyamorous and lives in West Marin, California. Dorothy ' Dossie' Easton (born February 26, 1944), who has also written under the name Scarlet Woman, is an American author and family therapist based in San Francisco, California.

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