Janet Hardy

Template:Short description Template:Redirect Template:Infobox writer Janet W. Hardy is an American writer and sex educator, and founder of Greenery Press.<ref>Sachie Godwin, Clamor Magazine, Template:Cite web, issue 17, 2002</ref> She has also been published as Catherine A. Liszt and Lady Green.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> She is the author or co-author of eleven books, and frequently collaborates with Dossie Easton.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

She is genderqueer (and uses she/her pronouns), bisexual, and polyamorous.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Views on BDSM

During an talk to the International Online Sexology Supervisors, she stated that BDSM is a deliberate and conscious lowering of the boundaries that people typically keep between themselves and others.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Books authored or co-authored by Janet Hardy

• Dossie Easton, Janet W. Hardy, The New Topping Book. Greenery Press, 2003. Template:ISBN.
• Dossie Easton, Janet W. Hardy, The New Bottoming Book. Greenery Press, 2001. Template:ISBN.
• Dossie Easton, Catherine A. Liszt, When Someone You Love Is Kinky. Greenery Press, 2000. Template:ISBN.
• Easton, Dossie and Catherine A. Liszt. The Ethical Slut. A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities. San Francisco: Greenery Press, 1997. Template:ISBN. Template:ISBN. Template:OCLC.<ref>The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities (1997). Open Library.</ref>

• Dossie Easton and Janet W. Hardy. The Ethical Slut: A Practical Guide to Polyamory, Open Relationships & Other Adventures. Second edition. Celestial Arts, 2009. Template:ISBN. Template:ISBN<ref>The Ethical Slut. Goodreads.</ref>
• 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, 2017. Template:ISBN.

• Lady Green, The Sexually Dominant Woman: a Workbook for Nervous Beginners, Greenery Press, 1998. Template:ISBN
• Lady Green, The Compleat Spanker, Greenery Press, 2000. Template:ISBN.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• Lady Green (edit.), Jaymes Easton (edit.), Kinky Crafts: 101 Do-It-Yourself S/M Toys, Greenery Press, 1998, Template:ISBN
• Charles Moser, Janet Hardy, Sex Disasters... and How to Survive Them, Greenery Press, 2002. Template:ISBN.
• Janet Hardy, The Toybag Guide to Canes and Caning, Greenery Press, 2004. Template:ISBN.
• Dossie Easton, Janet W. Hardy, Radical Ecstasy, Greenery Press, 2004. Template:ISBN.
• Janet Hardy, 21st Century Kinkycrafts, Greenery Press, 2005. Template:ISBN
• Janet W. Hardy, Girlfag: A Life Told in Sex and Musicals, Beyond Binary Books, 2012. Template:ISBN.
• Janet W. Hardy, Impervious: Confessions of a Semi-Retired Deviant. Sincyr Publishing, 2019. Template:ISBN.
• Janet W. Hardy, Notes of an Aging Pervert. Unbound Edition, 2023. Template:ISBN.

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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

She is an inductee of the Society of Janus Hall of Fame.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>