Janet W. Hardy is an American writer and sex educator, and founder of

Greenery Press Greenery Press is a publishing house based in Emeryville, California, specializing in books on BDSM (particularly femdom) and polyamory, with over 50 titles in print. Most titles are non-fiction, but a smaller number of fiction titles and memo ...

. She has also been published as ''Catherine A. Liszt'' and ''Lady Green''. She is the author or co-author of eleven books, and frequently collaborates with

Dossie Easton 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. She is polyamorous and lives in West Marin, California. Backgro ...

. She is genderqueer (and uses female pronouns), bisexual, and polyamorous.

Books authored or co-authored by Janet Hardy

* Dossie Easton, Janet W. Hardy, ''The New Topping Book.''

, 2003. . * Dossie Easton, Janet W. Hardy, ''The New Bottoming Book.''

, 2001. . * Dossie Easton, Catherine A. Liszt, ''When Someone You Love Is Kinky.''

, 2000. . * Easton, Dossie and Catherine A. Liszt. '' The Ethical Slut.'' A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities. San Francisco: Greenery Press, 1997. . . . :* Dossie Easton and Janet W. Hardy. ''The Ethical Slut: A Practical Guide to Polyamory, Open Relationships & Other Adventures''. Second edition. Celestial Arts, 2009. . :* Janet W. Hardy and Dossie Easton.
The Ethical Slut: A Practical Guide to Polyamory, Open Relationships & Other Freedoms in Sex and Love
'. Third Edition.

Ten Speed Press Ten Speed Press is a publishing house founded in Berkeley, California in 1971 by Phil Wood. Ten Speed Press was bought by Random House in February 2009 and is now part of their Crown Publishing Group division. History Wood worked with Barnes & ...

, 2017. . * Lady Green, ''The Sexually Dominant Woman: a Workbook for Nervous Beginners'',

, 1998. * Lady Green, ''The Compleat Spanker'',

, 2000. . * Lady Green (edit.), Jaymes Easton (edit.), ''Kinky Crafts: 101 Do-It-Yourself S/M Toys'',

, 1998, * Charles Moser, Janet Hardy, ''Sex Disasters... and How to Survive Them'',

, 2002. . * Janet Hardy, ''The Toybag Guide to Canes and Caning'',

, 2004. . * Dossie Easton, Janet W. Hardy, ''Radical Ecstasy'',

, 2004. . * Janet Hardy, ''21st Century Kinkycrafts'', Greenery Press, 2005. * Janet W. Hardy, ''Girlfag: A Life Told in Sex and Musicals'', Beyond Binary Books, 2012. . * Janet W. Hardy, ''Impervious: Confessions of a Semi-Retired Deviant''. Sincyr Publishing , 2019. .

Film and TV

* BDSM: It's not what you think (2008) * Vice & Consent (2005) * "Sex TV"—Girl Show/The Ethical Slut/Sex and the Beard? (2002) * Beyond Vanilla (2001) * The Dr. Susan Block Show (1996)

Awards

She received the Geoff Mains Nonfiction Book Award from the National Leather Association in 2019 for ''The Sexually Dominant Woman: An Illustrated Guide for Nervous Beginners'', and in 2020 for ''Impervious: Confessions of a Semi-Retired Deviant''. She is an inductee of the

Society of Janus The Society of Janus is the second BDSM organization founded in the United States (after The Eulenspiegel Society) and is a San Francisco, California based BDSM education and support group. The Society of Janus is nonprofit, volunteer run and is ...

Hall of Fame.

References

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