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Dossie Easton

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Dossie Easton
Dossie Easton in 2022
Dossie Easton in 2022
BornDorothy Marguerite Easton
(1944-02-26)February 26, 1944(age 80)
Andover, Massachusetts
OccupationWriter andfamily therapist
NationalityAmerican
SubjectBDSMandsex education
Website
www.dossieeaston

Dorothy"Dossie"Easton(born February 26, 1944), who has also written under the nameScarlet Woman,is an American author andfamily therapistbased inSan Francisco, California.[1]

Education and career

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Easton is a non-fiction author and poet. 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 theUniversity of Hamburg.

Easton has given presentations at many colleges and universities, includingUniversity of California, Santa Cruz;Bryn Mawr College;University of California, Berkeley;Mills College;Pomona College;andSan Francisco State University.

Her B.A. is fromNew College of California,1975; MA in Education and Counseling fromUniversity of San Francisco,1989; Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, 1991, USF.[2]Her bachelor's thesis was titledSex is Nice and Pleasure is Good for You.[3]She worked at theHaight Ashbury Free ClinicPsych Annex in 1968 as a psychedelic crisis guide, and she worked withSan Francisco Sex Informationfor several years, beginning in 1972. She had a radio show on sexuality onKPOOSan Francisco from 1973 to 1975 called "Get in Touch", as Mandy Jenkins. She has worked in battered women's centers and mental health clinics in Santa Cruz, Sunnyvale, and San Francisco.

She was a member of the first board of directors of theSociety of Janusin 1974, and is a life member. She is an inductee of the Society of Janus Hall of Fame.[4]She also is or has been a member of other well-knownBDSMorganizations such asThe Outcasts,Exiles, and Black Leather Wings, aradical faeriegroup.

In 1969, Easton made the decision never to enter into a monogamous relationship again.[5]Her books have been cited as fundamental to thepolyamorymovement.

Dossie Easton has been a dedicated provider of authentic, compassionate, and respectful psychotherapy and relationship counseling for individuals exploring non-traditional lifestyles since 1962. In a 2023 talk on love, sex, polyamory, and kink, Easton said that ‘those people who live in a world of limitations and fears are missing out on so much that is possible’. The statement emphasizes the idea that there is so much more to life than what can be perceived within the confines of fear and self-imposed limitations. It encourages individuals to challenge their fears and embrace a mindset that embraces possibilities and personal expansion.[6][7]

Personal life

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Easton ispolyamorous[8]and lives inWest Marin, California.[9]

Works

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Nonfiction books

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  • Easton, Dossie andJanet W. Hardy,Radical Ecstasy: S/M Journeys to Transcendence.San Francisco: Greenery Press, 2004.
  • Easton, Dossie and Janet W. Hardy,The New Topping Book.San Francisco: Greenery Press, 2003.ISBN1-890159-36-0.
  • Easton, Dossie and Janet W. Hardy,The New Bottoming Book.San Francisco: Greenery Press, 2001.ISBN1-890159-35-2.
  • Easton, Dossie andCatherine A. Liszt.When Someone You Love Is Kinky.San Francisco: Greenery Press, 2000.ISBN1-890159-23-9.
  • Easton, Dossie and Catherine A. Liszt.The Ethical Slut.A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities.San Francisco: Greenery Press, 1997.ISBN1-890159-01-8.ISBN978-1-890159-01-6.OCLC37969365.[10]

Poetry

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  • Poems under the name Scarlet Woman and Dossie Easton in works edited byPatrick Califia,Joan Nestle(The Persistent Desire),Leslea Newman(The Femme Mystique)
  • Scarlet Woman. "Roll Me Over and Make Me a Rose" and "Dress Shirt".The Persistent Desire: A Femme-Butch Reader.Ed. Joan Nestle. Boston: Alyson Publications, 1992. pp 351–352
  • Scarlet Woman. "Hold Me Down So I Can Fly."The Second Coming: A Leatherdyke Reader.Ed. Pat Califia and Robin Sweeney. Boston: Alyson Publications, 1996. pp 101–103
  • Scarlet Woman. "For DAVID & JERRY & CYNTHIA & MARK & now CHRISTOPHER too..."Coming to Power.Ed. by members ofSamois,a lesbian/feministBDSMorganization. Boston: Alyson Publications, 1981
  • Scarlet Woman: poems.Chapbook. 20pp. 1995

Articles

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  • "Shadowplay:SM Journeys to Our Selves" inSafe, Sane and Consensual,eds. Meg Barker and Darren Langdridge, UK 2007.[12]
  • "Making Friends with Jealousy" inUnderstanding Non-Monogamies,eds. Meg Barker and Darren Langdridge, Routledge, 2010.[13]
  • "Cultural Competence with BDSM Clients" inCounseling Ideologies, Queer Challenges to Heteronormativity,ed. Lyndsey Moon, Ashgate Publishing, United Kingdom, 2010.[14]
  • "Sex and Relationships: Reflections on Living Outside the Box" inFamilies - Beyond the Nuclear Ideal,eds. Daniela Cutas and Sarah Chan,Bloomsbury Publishing,London, 2012.[15]

References

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  1. ^"Dossie Easton".Poly-Friendly Professionals.Polychromatic.Retrieved2010-04-21.
  2. ^"Biography".Dossie Easton.Retrieved2022-07-11.
  3. ^Easton, Dossie and Catherine A. Liszt.The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities.San Francisco: Greenery Press, 1997. p. 19.
  4. ^"Society of Janus".Erobay. 2019-07-20.Retrieved2020-04-21.
  5. ^Easton,Ethical Slut,p. 10.
  6. ^"Dossie Easton: Freedoms in Sex and Love. Exploring Polyamory with the authors of The ethical slut".International Online Sexology Supervisors.26 June 2023.
  7. ^Ma, Moses (3 April 2007)."Loving More Than One".Psychology Today.Retrieved2012-07-04.
  8. ^Beckerman, Marty (April 23, 2009)."The Ethical Slut Returns".The Daily Beast.Retrieved29 June2012.
  9. ^Tuller, David (1997-06-29)."Probing the Limits of Pleasure and Pain".San Francisco Chronicle.Retrieved2012-08-12.
  10. ^The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities (1997).Open Library.
  11. ^The Ethical Slut.Goodreads.
  12. ^Langdridge, Darren; Barker, Meg, eds. (2007).Safe, Sane and Consensual.Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.ISBN978-0230517745.
  13. ^Barker, Meg; Langdridge, Darren, eds. (2010).Understanding Non-Monogamies(1 ed.). New York: Routledge.ISBN9780415800556.
  14. ^Moon, Lyndsey, ed. (2010)."Cultural Competence with BDSM Clients".Counselling Ideologies: Queer Challenges to Heteronormativity.Farnham: Ashgate Publishing.ISBN9780754676836.Retrieved26 June2019.
  15. ^Cutas, Daniela; Chan, Sarah, eds. (2012). "Sex and Relationships: Reflections on Living Outside the Box".Families - Beyond the Nuclear Ideal.London: Bloomsbury.ISBN9781780930138.

Sources

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  • Klesse, Christian.SexualitiesVol. 9 No. 5. Special issue on Polyamory. Contains interview with Dossie Easton, "The Trials and Tribulations of being a 'Slut' – Ethical, Psychological, and Political. Thoughts on Polyamory." December 2006. pp 643–650.
  • Love, Barbara,ed.Feminists who Changed America, 1963-1975,University of Illinois Press, 2006.
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