Janet Hardy
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Janet W. Hardy | |
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 Janet Hardy, November 10, 2009 | |
| Pen name | Catherine A. Liszt, Lady Green, Verdant, Verdie |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | American |
| Subject | BDSM and sex education |
| Website | |
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Janet W. Hardy is an American writer and sex educator, and founder of Greenery Press.[1] She has also been published as Catherine A. Liszt and Lady Green.[2] She is the author or co-author of eleven books, and frequently collaborates with Dossie Easton.[3]
She is genderqueer (and uses she/her pronouns), bisexual, and polyamorous.[4]
Views on BDSM
[edit]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.[5]
Books authored or co-authored by Janet Hardy
[edit]- Dossie Easton, Janet W. Hardy, The New Topping Book. Greenery Press, 2003. ISBN 1-890159-36-0.
- Dossie Easton, Janet W. Hardy, The New Bottoming Book. Greenery Press, 2001. ISBN 1-890159-35-2.
- Dossie Easton, Catherine A. Liszt, When Someone You Love Is Kinky. Greenery Press, 2000. ISBN 1-890159-23-9.
- Easton, Dossie and Catherine A. Liszt. The Ethical Slut. A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities. San Francisco: Greenery Press, 1997. ISBN 1-890159-01-8. ISBN 978-1-890159-01-6. OCLC 37969365.[6]
- Dossie Easton and Janet W. Hardy. The Ethical Slut: A Practical Guide to Polyamory, Open Relationships & Other Adventures. Second edition. Celestial Arts, 2009. ISBN 1-587613-37-9. ISBN 978-1-587613-37-1[7]
- 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. ISBN 978-0-399-57966-0.
- Lady Green, The Sexually Dominant Woman: a Workbook for Nervous Beginners, Greenery Press, 1998. ISBN 978-1-890159-11-5
- Lady Green, The Compleat Spanker, Greenery Press, 2000. ISBN 1-890159-00-X.[8]
- Lady Green (edit.), Jaymes Easton (edit.), Kinky Crafts: 101 Do-It-Yourself S/M Toys, Greenery Press, 1998, ISBN 0-9639763-7-0
- Charles Moser, Janet Hardy, Sex Disasters... and How to Survive Them, Greenery Press, 2002. ISBN 1-890159-44-1.
- Janet Hardy, The Toybag Guide to Canes and Caning, Greenery Press, 2004. ISBN 1-890159-56-5.
- Dossie Easton, Janet W. Hardy, Radical Ecstasy, Greenery Press, 2004. ISBN 1-890159-62-X.
- Janet Hardy, 21st Century Kinkycrafts, Greenery Press, 2005. ISBN 1-890159-58-1
- Janet W. Hardy, Girlfag: A Life Told in Sex and Musicals, Beyond Binary Books, 2012. ISBN 1-93812-300-X.
- Janet W. Hardy, Impervious: Confessions of a Semi-Retired Deviant. Sincyr Publishing, 2019. ISBN 978-1948780094.
- Janet W. Hardy, Notes of an Aging Pervert. Unbound Edition, 2023. ISBN 9798987019962.
Film and TV
[edit]- 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
[edit]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.[9]
She is an inductee of the Society of Janus Hall of Fame.[10]
References
[edit]- ^ Sachie Godwin, Clamor Magazine, "Perfect Bound". Archived from the original on 2010-04-05. Retrieved 2010-03-20., issue 17, 2002
- ^ Marech, Rona (October 19, 2001). "Greenery Press specializes in off-color topics". San Francisco Chronicle.
- ^ "Janet W. Hardy - Penguin Random House". www.randomhouse.com.
- ^ "about the author". slutandsons.com. 2020-07-14. Retrieved 2021-03-03.
- ^ "Janet Hardy: Freedoms in Sex and Love. Exploring Polyamory with the authors of "The ethical slut"". International Online Sexology Supervisors. 26 June 2023.
- ^ The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities (1997). Open Library.
- ^ The Ethical Slut. Goodreads.
- ^ "The Compleat Spanker (review)". SandMUtopia Guardian #24. 1997. p. 38.
- ^ "List of winners - Living In Leather".
- ^ "Society of Janus". Erobay. 2019-07-20. Retrieved 2020-04-21.
Categories:
- BDSM writers
- American bisexual writers
- Living people
- American relationships and sexuality writers
- 20th-century American women writers
- 20th-century American non-fiction writers
- Businesspeople from the San Francisco Bay Area
- American non-binary writers
- Writers from the San Francisco Bay Area
- 21st-century American non-fiction writers
- 21st-century American women writers
- 20th-century pseudonymous writers
- 21st-century pseudonymous writers
- Pseudonymous women writers
- Polyamorous people
- Non-binary bisexual people