Dorothy Freed is the pseudonym of a writer who passed in December 2024 at 80 years of age. Dorothy persevered through vision impairment and widowhood to publish the lived story of her erotic life as a submissive with her beloved Sir (and spouse of 38 years) who passed away in 2022, titled Life After Promiscuity, A BDSM Love Story in January 2024.
Life After Promiscuity follows Perfect Strangers, A Memoir of the Swinging Seventies, set in San Francisco, a memoir that Dorothy self-published in 2018.
Dorothy Freed has been a long-time member of the Center for Sex and Culture’s, Erotic Reading Circle, both founded by Carol Queen, PhD. Dorothy’s short stories have been published in numerous erotic anthologies and she wrote other genres under her legal name.
Dorothy was a champion for animal rights, a mother, and a feminist, and spent much of her life in coastal California. Dorothy was known for being candid and direct about her many years of sexual exploration in the San Francisco Bay Area, how it transformed her, and those who shared it with her.
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An auspices beginning to what should be a very interesting blog. It should be fun reading about the exploits of dorothy in swingerland.
Like your site and particularly your blog. Let’s have more on the books you read–I’m sure you’ll turn me on to reads/books I don’t even know of. And more, too, about the writer’s life from your perspective!
I am very much impressed with Dorothy’s outlook on life and her search for pleasure. Keep it up, Dorothy
Dear Dorothy, I read your wonderful statements, and thank you for your very intelligent perspective on this problem. Your website greatly interests me, and I am very excited to have found it.
Sally.
i have been too busy to sit until lately…when i was once again able to peruse ms freed’s work again.
She is as billed: getting’ better with age! Bon vivant:)
After connecting on Twitter, I instantly liked you. Still do after coming here. Used to live in the city and East Bay before moving to Truckee. And used to be your age until my birthday last month. So from living loving and writing I guess we have a lot in common. Love, Somraj
Somraj, Thanks for liking me, my writing, and my erotic world
view. Big hug, Dorothy
Your perspective and personality have added a new view to my life. Thank you.
Melissa, You are completely welcome and thanks for your gracious comment.
I have just finished the story, Perfect Strangers. It is a totally compelling read. A great cover to cover read, I really loved it and could not put it down. So much so, I am sat here waiting for Dorothy’s next story with a view to publishing it.
I’ve heard it said the best writing comes from imagination and experience. The three short stories — “Golden Rule,” “I Really Do Belong to You,”, and “Plug Play” — have the ring of experience behind them. Each is different; all excite the imagination. Well done.
I intended to read Perfect strangers just a little at a time. I couldn’t put it down. Dorothy’s writing is engaging and so much fun to read. I read the entire book in one sitting. Fabulous – loved it.