On this page you will find a wide variety of reading that I find informative, enlightening, and of personal significance. This list is in response to many of the queries I have had over the years with regard not only to good reference material for beginning SM enthusiasts, but also with regard to my own literary and philosophic wanderings. I encourage you to peruse this list with an open mind and to remember that I am thrilled by intelligent play partners interested in engaging with me on a visceral and cerebral level. I have made comments next to some of the titles.

I am also pleased to provide on-line resources for BDSM players of all experience levels, as well as links to my own writing and interviews on the web.

S&M Fiction, Erotica and Reference

Macho Sluts, Public Sex and Speaking Sex to Power: The Politics of Queer Sex. - by Patrick Califia Smart, sexy reading for kinksters of all persuasions.

My Gender Workbook - by Kate Bornstein. A hands-on approach to understanding gender! Intelligent fun, sure to teach you things you never knew about yourself.

Consensual SM by Sybil Holiday - highly recommended reading for all levels.

Screw the Roses, Give Me the Thorns: The Romance and Sexual Sorcery of Sadomasochism

by Philip Miller and Molly Devon - great nuts and bolts approach to SM, with lots of how-to´s and good safety information.

Different Loving: The World of Sexual Dominance and Submission by Gloria Brame, William Brame and Jon Jacobs - a wonderful, gentle read for newcomers and their partners.

The Klutz Book of Knots - Indispensable (and fun!) tool for the bondage beginner.

Fresh Girls by Evelyn Lau - smut with a literary edge.

The Mastery of Submission: Inventions of Masochism by John K. Noyes - for the theory sluts among you...

Male Lust: Pleasure, Power and Transformation edited by Kerwin Kay, Jill Nagle and Baruch Gould - an excellent collection of essays on the diversity and complexity of men´s relationship with sex and desire.

Whipsmart: A Good Vibrations' Guide to Beginning SM for Couples. Written and Hosted by Mistress Morgana, Produced by Sex Positive Productions. Designed specifically for men and women who are new to kink, Whipsmart offers solid information and advice about how to explore SM safely and with confidence. As an educator and writer, I am committed to providing the highest quality information on SM skill and technique. "Whipsmart" is an excellent resource for beginning players, as well as more experienced players looking for a review. The video features high production values and sexy real-life couples modeling good SM technique. With good humor and a non-threatening, accessible style, I walk you through everything you need to know to incorporate kink into your erotic life. For more information about Whipsmart, including how to purchase your own copy, visit the Good Vibrations website.

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Gender, Feminist Politics, The Industry

Whores and Other Feminists edited by Jill Nagle - an excellent collection of essays and interviews.

Live Sex Acts by Wendy Chapkis - a well researched, thought provoking and theoretically dynamic book.

Global Sex Workers edited by Kamala Kempadoo and Jo Doezema

A Vindication of the Rights of Whores edited by Gail Pheterson

Skin: Talking About Sex, Class & Literature and Trash by Dorothy Allison

Women, Culture & Politics by Angela Y. Davis

Yearning: race, gender and cultural politics by bell hooks

The Second Sex, by Simone de Beauvoir - a classic text.

Auto/biographies, Memoirs, Journals

The Collected Diaries of Anais Nin Volumes I - VII - the finest form of voyeurism can be the silent observance of another woman´s fantasies...

The Orton Diaries - kept by British playwright Joe Orton in the six months before his murder, I have long turned to his book as a "pick-me-up" on hard days.

In Light of India - Mexican poet Octavio Paz´s recollections on his six years as ambassador to India.

The Jaguar Smile - Salman Rushdie´s account of his travels in Nicaragua, a brilliantly written observation of US intervention in Central America.

Fidel & Religion - what began as a conversation with Brazilian priest Frei Betto turned into a twenty-three hour discussion in which Castro details with great candor much of his life history.

Assata, - the autobiography of exiled Black Panther Assata Shakur.

Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life by Jon Lee Anderson - the most complete text on his life and work.

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Dust Tracks on a Road by one of my personal favorites, Zora Neale Hurston - read carefully, as I have been known to assign papers to naughty schoolboys on her work.

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Selected Fiction

The Lover by Marguerite Duras, a gorgeous tale of lustful adolescence in colonial Vietnam.

The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

The Unbearable Lightness of Being - by Milan Kundera, a rich story of fidelity and book fetishism set against the political turmoil of Czechoslovakia in the 1960s.

The White Hotel by D.M. Thomas - one of my favorite novels. Sex, Freud, the Holocaust and Thomas´ vision of the afterlife in one slender volume.

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston - there are a few perfect love stories written in the English language, and this is one of them.

House of Incest by Anais Nin - her early attempt at literary surrealism. Bonus points if you can identify which character is the fictional representation of Henry Miller´s wife June.

Seven Gothic Tales and Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen

Midnight´s Children by Salman Rushdie - historical fiction, metaphysics, colonial politics, filial piety and religious conflict in a perfectly written novel.

Love in the Time of Cholera and Collected Stories by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The Passion by Jeanette Winterson

Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille

Maurice and Howards End by E.M. Forester

Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Last Exit to Brooklyn by Herbert Selby Jr. - an edgy and gorgeous American tale of sex and class struggle.

SM Resources on the Internet

Looking for an intelligent, provocative place to chat on-line with world-class dominas? Join the discussion on All Star Doms , where Madame Gina Grant moderates one of the boards.

The Society of Janus The website of this San Francisco-based SM organization features outstanding links and information for players of all experience levels. Highly recommended for new players looking to build a vocabulary, as well as kinksters who want to connect with a community.

The Euilenspiegel Society The oldest based leather organization in the US, this NYC-based organization hosts an informative site with great links and community resources for those on the East Coast.

Good Vibrations The on-line home of my favorite, co-operatively owned erotic boutique. A fantastic place for on-line book and toy shopping.

Toys in Babeland The on-line home of Seattle and New York´s premiere erotic boutique. Women owned and operated!

Kink Aware Professionals A fantastic site for finding a kink friendly psychotherapist, social worker, pastor, doctor, chiropractor, acupuncturist, massage therapist, lawyer, accountant or computer professional! Features international listings.

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Mistress Morgana Writing and Interviews

Visit the San Francisco Bay Guardian archives and read "The Domme Next Door" for an inside look at my workshops.

Read my Spectator cover article Everybody in Leather.

A bottom-burning review of my spanking class, Please May I Have Another?!?, can be read on the Eros Guide to San Francisco. If you´re still working up the courage to attend a workshop, this scintillating story should put your mind at ease and your body in the mood to sign up!

New York´s Editrix Abby reviews my instructional video, Whipsmart: a Good Vibrations Guide to SM for Beginning Couples, for the California Spectator.

My 1997 Spectator cover interview with William A. Henkin, Ph.D. can be found at the Society for Human Sexuality website.

Do kinky terms have you confused? Take a look at my S/M Glossary, originally written for erosnoir.com.

Having a hard time talking to your partner about your kinky fantasies? Check out my article Getting What You Want When What You Want is Kinky, originally written for erosnoir.com.

Colleagues

These are the women who use Maison de la Maitresse. I enjoy playing with all of them, and highly recommend them as individuals.

Miss Vivian Swift

A skilled player with a hypnotic style that combines strictness with sensuality; traditional corporal and domestic discipline; bondage and restriction; femme training and transformation; diaper play; and scenarios involving age regression.

Madame Gina Grant

Trained under my direct hand, this classic beauty is a sensual sadist and dominant. Highly-effective slave training; cathartic pain and power exchange; electrical and manual geni-torture; taboo and edge exploration; smothering; firm yet caring domestic discipline and diaper dominance.

Natasha Strange

A gorgeous woman with a wicked style; exquisite leather bondage; tormenting predicaments, sissy training at its finest. Meow!

Mistress Liliane Hunt

A Victorian fetishist and sensual sadist with a sophisticated style and a penchant for Old World discipline.

Miss Penny Barber

A naughty little switch with talent, beauty, and sass! A favorite to have over my knee for double or instructional sessions.

I also recommend:

Mistress Josephine

San Francisco; physical overpowerment; strict discipline; domestic role-play; skilled wrestling.

Mistress Yin

New York City; sensual sadism; exquisite and encapsulating bondage; intense explorations into edge play; intelligence and grace in dominance.

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